Fiddler Magazine
On Improvisation
In this On Improvisation column, we'll be discussing Mr. (or Ms.) Pinky, as he (or she) is known to his (or her) friends.
4 min |
Fall 2022
Bloomberg Businessweek US
Tracking Periods Without Being Tracked
The group behind the nonprofit app Drip says it offers greater privacy than commercial rivals
3 min |
September 05 - 12, 2022 (Double Issue)
Techlife News
‘I Didn't Really Learn Anything': Covid Grads Face College
Angel Hope looked at the math test and felt lost. He had just graduated near the top of his high school class, winning scholarships from prestigious colleges. But on this test — a University of Wisconsin exam that measures what new students learned in high school — all he could do was guess.
5 min |
August 13, 2022
Reason magazine
You Can't Stop Pirate Libraries
Where there's demand for books, the Internet will supply them.
7 min |
August - September 2022
Reason magazine
The Dangerous Lesson of Book Bans in Public School Libraries
An obscure Supreme Court case provides a roadmap through the curricular culture war.
10+ min |
August - September 2022
Mother Jones
Debtors' Vision
How a group of Occupiers pushed Biden to embrace student debt relief
6 min |
July/August 2022
Reason magazine
Kids Can Learn Without Instruction
Don’t show this to your kids, because they might cry. But guess how much time children in “traditional societies”— indigenous groups pretty much off the grid—spend in direct instruction, the way American kids do in school?
3 min |
July 2022
Good House Keeping - US
The Magic of Children's Gardens
Exposure to nature helps kids learn important lessons they'll carry with them as they grow.
4 min |
May 2022
Esquire
Cold War Kids
For two weeks in 1962, at recess, we would all look up at the sky. We're looking at the sky again.
5 min |
April - May 2022
PC Magazine
10 Common Career Tips That Might Be Wrong for You
Advice about the working world can seem helpful, but following it may not help your career flourish.!
6 min |
April 2022
True West
The End of an Era
Texans drove their last great herds north in the 1880s.
3 min |
April 2022
PC Magazine
Wondrium: Wide Variety of Education Videos
Couch-side edutainment for the curious
8 min |
February 2022
True West
Ask the Marshall — Saloons, Paniolos and Telegraphs
Was the Long Branch Saloon in Dodge City, Kansas, an integrated saloon during 1876 to 1886, the height of the cattle drive era? This rare interior photo of Chalk Beeson's famous Front Street bar shows bartender Lo Warren (front, right), a Black bartender and cowboys sitting at the rear of the saloon.
3 min |
February - March 2022
True West
Native History Celebrated Large
Only months old, the First Americans Museum in Oklahoma City is dedicated to truth-telling.
3 min |
February - March 2022
Bloomberg Businessweek
The lost girls of covid
For 25 years, girls in developing countries have been on a remarkable trajectory of progress. The pandemic is reversing it
10+ min |
January 10, 2022
American Outdoor Guide
Good Bugs
These creative critters offer help to humans in a variety of ways.
10 min |
February 2022
New York magazine
“My Dad Wasn't Just A Nobody”
Fifteen people at Rikers died in 2021. These are their stories.
10+ min |
January 3-16, 2022
Mother Jones
The Purity Trap
These women went to Bible college to deepen their faith. Then they were assaulted— and blamed for it.
10+ min |
January/February 2022
Archaeology
THE ROOTS OF VIOLENCE
In the early 1960s, archaeologists from around the world descended on the Upper Nile Valley.
3 min |
January/February 2022
Archaeology
Under the Holy City
A long-running excavation in Jerusalem unearths evidence for two of the city’s least-known eras
10+ min |
January/February 2022
Archaeology
TURNING SALT INTO GOLD
In the Austrian Alps, generations of miners toiled to extract the ancient world’s most valuable resource
10+ min |
January/February 2022
Archaeology
OFF THE GRID
OPLONTIS, ITALY
2 min |
January/February 2022
Archaeology
AT FACE VALUE
Researchers are using new scientific methods to investigate how artists in Roman Egypt customized portraits for the dead
10+ min |
January/February 2022
Archaeology
A Brush With Genius
An unprecedented find in central China brings to life the early years of a master calligrapher
10+ min |
January/February 2022
Archaeology
Archaeology's Top 10 Discoveries of 2021
Discoveries
10+ min |
January/February 2022
Archaeology
ITALIAN MASTER BUILDERS
A 3,500-year-old ritual pool reflects a little-known culture’s agrarian prowess
7 min |
November/December 2021
Archaeology
Piecing Together Maya Creation Stories
Thousands of mural fragments from the city of San Bartolo illustrate how the Maya envisioned their place in the universe
10+ min |
November/December 2021
Archaeology
GHOST TRACKS OF WHITE SANDS
Scientists are uncovering fossilized footprints in the New Mexico desert that show how humans and Ice Age animals shared the landscape
10+ min |
November/December 2021
Archaeology
GAUL'S UNIVERSITY TOWN
New excavations have revealed the wealth and prestige of an ancient center of learning
9 min |
November/December 2021
Mother Jones
Distant Learning
New immigrant students had the most to gain at Virginia’s Justice High—and the most to lose once the pandemic hit.
10+ min |