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What ‘Oppenheimer’ Doesn’t Tell You About the Trinity Test
July is a hard month for a lot of us here in New Mexico, where thousands of people’s lives were…
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The Story of the Student Journalist and the Stanford President
There are many rabbit holes on the internet not worth going down. But a comment on an online science forum…
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The Butterfly Net and the Magic of Attention
If you have ever gone bird watching, or looked for wildflowers or mushrooms, or hunted for deer or rabbits, you…
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For One Weekend, We Remembered the Magic of Movie Theaters
It seemed like a miracle. The Cobble Hill Cinemas, a neighborhood joint that opened in the 1920s as the Lido…
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The Legacy Dilemma: What to Do About Privileges for the Privileged?
Alumni of many colleges are wrestling with whether the practice of legacy admissions should survive after the Supreme Court gutted…
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In Lessons on Slavery, Context Matters
One of the points I tried to make in my Friday column about the new Florida curriculum on the history…
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How to Treat Loneliness (and Should We?)
Readers offer their suggestions, including group therapy and psychedelics, but also question the need for solutions.
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Could Ethnic Conflict in India Become an Issue Modi Cannot Ignore?
India’s opposition is trying to force the prime minister to address the violence in Manipur, which has killed more than…
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Reluctant to Retire, Leaders Raise a Tough Question: How Old Is Too Old?
Two troubling moments involving Senators Dianne Feinstein and Mitch McConnell thrust questions about aging in office out of Congress and…
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Jennifer Brady, Finally Healthy, Tries to Get Back to Work
Even when the big success finally came, it hardly came easily for Jennifer Brady. She made her breakthrough at the…