Weidensaul, Scott: A World on the Wing

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Researchers have found that in advance of their flights, migrant birds can bulk up with new muscle mass without really exercising, something humans would...

Conover, Ted: Cheap Land Colorado

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The local expert on cold-calling is Matt Little, charged by the social service group La Puente with “rural outreach.” Matt has let me ride...

Yong, Ed: An Immense World

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Philosophers have long pitied the goldfish in its bowl, unaware of what lies beyond, but our senses create a bowl around us too—one that...

Friedman, Thomas L.: From Beirut to Jerusalem

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But in order to make that state economically viable, the Maronites appealed to France to include in it not only their traditional Mt. Lebanon...

Best Remembered Poems

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Francis William Bourdillon The Night Has a Thousand Eyes The night has a thousand eyes,And the day but one;Yet the light of the bright world diesWith...

Dorff, PhD, Rabbi Elliot N.: The Jewish Approach to Repairing the World

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Tikkun olam—repairing the world. Quite a task! Yet this is precisely the goal that the Jewish tradition sets for our lives. This gives us...

Greer, Germaine: The Female Eunuch

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Five years ago it seemed clear that emancipation had failed: the number of women in Parliament had settled at a low level; the number...

Brandreth, Gyles D.: Elizabeth

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The Prince once asked me, ‘How on earth did Shakespeare manage it? I am Prince of Wales. Shakespeare wasn’t, but he knew exactly what...

Perry, Imani: South to America

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Or Dolly Parton, an honest-to-God multimillionaire who grew up a poor mountain woman. She says, “It takes a lot of money to look this...

Antonelli, Alexandre: The Hidden Universe

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As a consequence, species are now probably disappearing faster than any time in human history. On every island, every continent, every coral reef, a...

Wallace-Wells, David: The Uninhabitable Earth

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The earth has experienced five mass extinctions before the one we are living through now, each so complete a wiping of the fossil record...

McGuire, Bill: Hothouse Earth

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What I mean by hothouse Earth, then, is not an ice-free planet, but a world in which lethal heatwaves and temperatures in excess of...

Smith, Will: Will

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Are you paying attention to the wall? Or are you paying attention to the brick? Whether it was acing the tests to get accepted...

Engebrigtsen, Ada I.: Exploring Gypsiness

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The Roma did not understand our problem. ‘Just say that your car has broken down, say you have no petrol, just lie’ was their...

Al Aswany, Alaa: The Yacoubian Building

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Then he would bring his speech to an end by cursing Abd el Nasser, who had introduced free education, or quote as authority the...

Lamott, Anne: Bird by Bird

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In seventh and eighth grades I still weighed about forty pounds. I was twelve years old and had been getting teased about my strange...