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Is Ultraprocessed Food Really That Bad?
A Harvard professor challenges conventional wisdom.
Chimpanzees and the Law
Jane Goodall, renowned primatologist, discusses the illegal animal trade
The Blaxploitation Era
Three of last summer's popular film comediesBarbershop, Undercover Brother, and Austin Powers: Goldmemberrecalled, in one way or...
The Power of Negative Thinking
Doing science is always more fun when your predictions prove true and your experiments shine. Positive results are satisfying, significant, even...
Of Rain and Rivers
It was a dark and stormy night. Rain fell steadily on rooftops, down gutters, along streets and sidewalks. It poured into drains, where it...
The Ultimate Blasts from the Past
In the 1960s, the United States secretly launched several satellites to check for illegal nuclear-weapons testing in space. Equipped with...
Censorship online
Originally, the World Wide Web was envisioned as exactly that—a global vehicle for the unimpeded flow of information, without barriers...
Chiseled Farewells
In Rome's placid Protestant Cemetery, the remains of poet John Keats rest in a nameless grave that bears an epitaph he wrote himself: "Here...
Inhibited Killers
Until recently, teenage violence was widely considered a deplorable and tragic phenomenon of inner cities. Experts linked childhood aggression...
Behind the Rampages
Their namesand their respective tragediesare now a part of the American lexicon: Littleton, Colorado; Paducah, Kentucky; Jonesboro...
Global Sushi
A fishing boat in the harbor of Gloucester, Massachusetts. Just 12 years ago, an astounded world looked on as McDonald's served its...