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Vinegar and sugar, dried fruit, rose water, spices from India and China, sweet wine made from raisins and dates--these are …
Throughout the world, closely related species are found on landmasses separated by wide stretches of ocean. What explains these far-flung …
The Laconian Empire has fallen, setting the thirteen hundred solar systems free from the rule of Winston Duarte. But the …
We live in a world of seeds. From our morning toast to the cotton in our clothes, they are quite …
It was January 2021, and Rick Deckard had a license to kill. Somewhere among the hordes of humans out there, …
First introduced in Freakonomics, here is the full story of Sudhir Venkatesh, the sociology grad student who infiltrated one of …
For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike--either free and equal innocents, or thuggish and warlike. …
Anne Garrels: Putin country (2016)
"A revealing look into the lives of ordinary Russians. More than twenty years ago, the longtime NPR correspondent Anne Garrels …
To most of us, learning something "the hard way" implies wasted time and effort. Good teaching, we believe, should be …
"An explosive expose of the right's relentless campaign to eliminate unions, suppress voting, privatize public education, and change the Constitution. …
