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The Birth Certificate in Your Mouth
Dark, accentuated lines that mark our teeth at birth are providing scientists with remarkable insight into the evolution of human development.
It crawled from below 50 years ago: how the global Dungeons & Dragons empire began in a basement
The fantasy tabletop role-playing game was conceived of by friends at the heart of Wisconsin’s gaming community, and has evolved to become a global phenomenon.
Saving a Sea Monkey Sanctuary
As the Great Salt Lake in Utah shrinks, locals are working to preserve its critical brine shrimp fishery—along with the other entities that flourish in the lake’s strange, saline beauty.
The Flooding Will Come “No Matter What”
The complex, contradictory and heartbreaking process of American climate migration is underway.
‘This Will Finish Us’
How Gulf princes, the safari industry, and conservation groups are displacing the Maasai from the last of their Serengeti homeland.
When Cheese Can Tell the Future
The Kitchen Witch brings the ancient art of tyromancy — divination through cheese — to the modern day.
The therapist who hated me
Going to a child psychoanalyst four times a week for three years was bad enough. Reading what she wrote about me was worse.
“Independent” Investigations Into Sexual Abuse Are Big Business. Can Survivors Really Trust Them?
When an aid organization hired agents to investigate her father’s violence, the resulting probe became her new nightmare.
The Revenge of the World’s Most Famous Female Pirates
Two women take to the sea and become the most feared pirates in the world. Rare archival material brings to life the most authoritative narrative of history’s boldest pair of renegades.