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A Window on a Shrinking World

A Window on a Shrinking World

by Betty Yu | Wednesday, December 09, 2020
Eating Our Way to a More Sustainable Planet

Eating Our Way to a More Sustainable Planet

by Terry Chapin | Monday, December 07, 2020
Water/Music

Water/Music

An excerpt

by Peter Filkins | Monday, December 07, 2020
A Vision for Gene Therapy

A Vision for Gene Therapy

Breakthroughs on mice could someday benefit humans

by Marcus A. Banks | Monday, November 30, 2020
Consider the Zipper

Consider the Zipper

One professor’s quest to uncover the 100 best ideas of all time

by Rebecca McCarthy | Tuesday, October 27, 2020
Unplanned Giving

Unplanned Giving

If you’re paid to do good, does it count?

by Marcus A. Banks | Wednesday, October 07, 2020
The Ethics of Consent

The Ethics of Consent

by Harriet A. Washington | Wednesday, September 30, 2020
Bird Dancer

Bird Dancer

by Matika Wilbur | Thursday, September 24, 2020
Caught in the Dark

Caught in the Dark

by Anjali Sachdeva | Friday, September 18, 2020
Forgotten Transcendentalists

Forgotten Transcendentalists

by Rebecca McCarthy | Wednesday, September 09, 2020
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THIS WEEK’S ARCHIVE PICK

2nd Look

Saving the Self in the Age of the Selfie

by James McWilliams

Cutting back on screen time may be an especially popular resolution this January, as pandemic-forced isolation led many of us to be even more closely glued to our phones and laptops. “We don’t want to be enslaved to a device. We want to regain a measure of control,” writes James McWilliams in this 2016 piece. “Doing so will require something you might not expect—courting exactly the experience that digital life promises to end: stress.”

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