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Opinion | To Save Life on Earth, Bring Back Taxonomy
New York Times· 12 hours agoMr. Langellier is a writer and field botanist in Vermont. In 2009, the botanist Naomi Fraga was hunting a flower without a name near Carson City, Nev....
Opinion | Whoever the Democratic Candidate Is, Americans Have Already Lost
New York Times· 2 days agoIt is only when I am not in America that I feel my American-ness. Maybe I had to watch that debate...
What’s the Deal With All the Flags on the Jersey Shore?
New York Times· 2 days agoFor most of my life, I have spent a part of each summer in Avalon, a beach town on the Jersey Shore....
How the Rise of the Camera Launched a Fight to Protect Gilded Age Americans' Privacy
Smithsonian Magazine· 2 days agoIn 1904, a widow named Elizabeth Peck had her portrait taken at a studio in a small Iowa town. The...
Toula Drimonis: We must not tune out the rise in antisemitism
Montreal Gazette· 3 days agoThe Jewish custom of placing a stone on a loved one’s grave is performed as an act of remembrance....
This country has a national happiness index. But what is it really like to live there?
CNN via Yahoo News· 3 days agoTo make it easier for people to open up, Coffee Cat Café holds events like poetry readings. There...
Chamber music turns old landmarks into vibrant venues in Sierra Madre and South L.A.
LA Times via Yahoo Canada News· 4 days agoRubin, like McIntosh, is also a member of a stellar new-music band, New York’s International...
Amateur Historians Unearth a Long-Lost Tudor Palace Visited by Henry VIII and Elizabeth I
Smithsonian Magazine· 4 days agoIf not for Margaret Beaufort, England’s most notorious dynasty might never have claimed the throne....
It's considered the first American novel, but this 1789 book isn't quite summer beach reading
North Shore News· 4 days agoIn the winter of 1789, around the time George Washington was elected the country's first president, a Boston-based printer quietly launched another American institution. William Hill Brown's ...
The Wide, Wide World of Judy Chicago
New York Times· 4 days agoThe 84-year-old American is perhaps best known for her groundbreaking feminist installation “The Dinner Party,” but she is an artist with a formidable...