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July 23, 2019
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A man and his dog sit in the cab of a druck, with the sun filtering in over ranchland.

Heritage Ranching

Preserving a way of life

by Katie Daniels | Monday, June 03, 2019
A wall of glaciers, colored in a gradient of blue

Speeding at a Glacial Pace

Four questions about the future of Antarctica

by Elizabeth Rush | Monday, June 03, 2019
An illustration of tiled smartphones showing a simplified person graphic and a giant red checkmark

Counting Americans in the Digital Age

The census goes online

by Brad Edmondson | Monday, June 03, 2019
Aerial shot of forest on the edge of water, with a town in the background

The Secret Life of Trees

Reading the rings of New York’s last maritime forests

by Rebecca McCarthy | Monday, June 03, 2019
A scuba diver descends to the jagged edge of a rock beneath the deep blue sea

Searching for Seamounts

A seismologist maps the mountain range below the Pacific

by Rebecca McCarthy | Monday, June 03, 2019
A cruise ship at dock in a beautiful bay

Journey to Nowhere

A very short excerpt from a poem-in-progress

by Dana Gioia | Monday, June 03, 2019
The Lost Lakes of Iran

The Lost Lakes of Iran

A drought takes its toll

by Katie Daniels | Monday, March 04, 2019
Growing Up

Growing Up

Five questions about the future of cities

by Monica L. Smith | Monday, March 04, 2019
Renaissance Woman

Renaissance Woman

Recognizing the female actors, dancers, and singers of 1920s Harlem

by Anna Marks | Monday, March 04, 2019
Alone, Together

Alone, Together

Do coffee shops encourage conversation or isolation?

by Rachel Adams | Monday, March 04, 2019
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THIS WEEK’S ARCHIVE PICK

2nd Look

The NASA You Never Hear About

by Isabelle Taft

Fifty years ago this week, when Neil Armstrong became the first person to set foot on the moon, the moment represented years of work and technical accomplishment. But it also left NASA struggling with a daunting new challenge: figuring out what to do next. Over the years, it has answered this question in part by highlighting the dizzying array of inventions it has inspired—some 1,500 a year. “Besides rocket science itself, perhaps the biggest thing people fail to understand about the agency is how its work has reverberated throughout the world in ways we experience directly every day,” writes Isabelle Taft. “It’s a mark of the agency’s enduring influence that even if we never make it there, we’re already living in a society forged by outer space.”