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Smarty Pants

Death in Papua New Guinea
Chronicling the disappearance of an entire language—and everything else that goes with it
Stephanie Bastek

Pencil-Pushing Spies
The secret history of how Imperial Russia kept an eye on its Chinese neighbor
Stephanie Bastek

If I Only Had a Brain!
Inside the extraordinary minds of people who feel others’ emotions, hear hallucinations, and get lost in their own homes
Stephanie Bastek

I Will Not Make Any More Boring Podcasts
What John Baldessari’s conceptual art can teach us about life during the pandemic
Stephanie Bastek

The Ghosts of Nazi Germany
We’ve all but forgotten the frenzy of witch trials and wonder doctors of the postwar period—but why?
Stephanie Bastek

Filling in the Blanks
By by Douglas B. Downey
An excerpt from How Schools Really Matter: Why Our Assumption About Schools and Inequality Is Mostly Wrong by Douglas B. Downey
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