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Chicago Hope
… do so well enough that the school doesn’t need to monitor so-called college persistence rates of those graduates the way the Noble Network does. From feedback Exeter gets from college admissions offices, it is confident that no difference exists between the college graduation rates of its grads who received full or substantial scholarships …
Read MorePut a Bird on It
… bird, or to any bird? Beyond concern for its immediate safety, a living bird must view me with some indifference. Even if it’s eating from my feeder, the bird likely thinks nothing of me, though by feeding it I may become entangled in its ongoing evolution—and it in mine. For as rapacious as …
Read MoreGlimpses of the Great War
… around particular WWI-era themes like migration, women’s suffrage, technology, and recreation.”
Over the past year, teachers, museum staff, and others attended design workshops to provide feedback for the project. In June, 10 teachers gathered at the National WWI Museum in Kansas City, Missouri, for a behind-the-scenes look. The app’s visual …
East Timor: Mountain of Memory
… 90 percent of the military equipment used in the 1975 invasion was supplied by the United States,” writes UCLA historian Geoffrey Robinson. Successive American administrations continued to feed the Indonesian military machine, and Timorese civilians continued to die en masse.
But in 1999, Indonesia’s new president, B. J. Habibie, called on the Timorese to …
Women v. ISIS
… sciences, history, and public affairs; reports on cutting-edge works in progress; long-form narratives; and compelling excerpts from new books. Hosted by Stephanie Bastek.
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I Contain Multitudes
… our bodies that we peer at with microscopes. We can talk about the diversity of microbial species. We can draw food webs, where different organisms eat and feed each other. We can single out keystone microbes that exert a disproportionate influence on their environment—the equivalents of sea otters or wolves. We can treat disease …
Read MoreA New Story for Black Americans
… sciences, history, and public affairs; reports on cutting-edge works in progress; long-form narratives; and compelling excerpts from new books. Hosted by Stephanie Bastek.
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Back Home from Fish Camp
… our elbows.
Our friends fish 12 sites—meaning 12 nets—using three skiffs. We’d have the first net in the water by six in the morning, feeding about 200 feet of net out the stern of a Boston whaler. Tides determine the rhythm of a fishing day—when you stay out and pick the …
Go West, Young Scholar
… sciences, history, and public affairs; reports on cutting-edge works in progress; long-form narratives; and compelling excerpts from new books. Hosted by Stephanie Bastek.
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Reading Lolita in Maximum Security Prison
… sciences, history, and public affairs; reports on cutting-edge works in progress; long-form narratives; and compelling excerpts from new books. Hosted by Stephanie Bastek.
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