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- Brief:1,3-Dichloropropene: The Dangerous, Sweet-Smelling Pesticide You’ve Never Heard Of
- Brief:8 Billion Humans? Population Is a Difficult Conversation, but We Need to Start Getting Real
- Brief:10 Reasons Why Hydropower Dams Are a False Climate Solution
- Brief:21 Days of Divesting from the War Economy: Active Practice
- Brief:600 Million Metric Tons of Plastic May Fill Oceans by 2036 If We Don’t Act Now
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- Brief:A National Asbestos-Exposure Registry of Veterans Could Combat Misdiagnosis in Mesothelioma Cases Nationwide
- Brief:A Tale of Two Nations: The North Aral Sea Rebounds While the South Aral Sea Dries Up
- Brief:A Tour of the World’s Oldest Railways Still in Operation
- Brief:Air Pollution Is Killing Millions and Rising Exponentially—A Shift in Agriculture Can Solve It
- Brief:America Is Still Using Diquat, a Toxic Weedkiller Banned in Much of the World
- Brief:Animal-Free Agriculture Is Key to Restoring Biodiversity
- Brief:Are Community Schools the Last, Best Shot at Addressing Education Inequity?
- Brief:Are Western Oligarchies a Long Detour of Civilization?
- Brief:Around the World in Nine Festivals: How Music Unites Us Across Borders
- Brief:Artist Group’s ‘Remember the Future’ Podcast Shines a Light on the Solidarity Economy
- Brief:As a Growing Social Movement and Self-Care Practice, Death Literacy Is Fostering Positive Conversations About the End
- Brief:A 20th-Century Medium Who Produced Literary Works Attributed to a Deceased Author
- Brief:A Climate Change Solution No One’s Talking About: Better Land Use
- Brief:A Critique of Obscene Wealth
- Brief:A Lesson of Coronavirus: Hunting Wildlife Can Be Deadly
- Brief:A Minimum Wage? A Fake Debate
- Brief:Across Africa, Water Conflict Threatens Security, Health, and the Environment
- Brief:Afro-Descendant Communities Offer a Living Blueprint for Amazon Conservation
- Brief:Agrivoltaics: The Farm-to-Solar Trend That Can Help Accelerate the Renewable Energy Transition
- Brief:Alternatives to Policing
- Brief:An Ancient Recipe for Social Success
- Brief:Archaeology Is Flipping the Script on What We Know About Ancient Mesoamerica
- Brief:Are Plant-Eaters Smarter and More Empathetic Than Meat-Eaters?
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- Brief:Bees Are Sentient and May Be Self-Aware
- Brief:Between Life and Death: What Near-Death Experiences Reveal About Consciousness
- Brief:Big Banks Break Their Climate Promises by Propping Up Big Meat
- Brief:Behind the ‘Economic Policy’ Façade, It’s Class War
- Brief:Better Family Planning Can Improve Public Health, Inequality and the Environment
- Brief:Bluewashed: How the Beauty Industry Sold an Ocean-Friendly Illusion
- Brief:Buraq in Islamic Tradition: Origins, Symbolism, and Artistic Representations of the Winged Steed
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- Brief:Can We Save the World’s Largest Flowers From the Brink of Extinction?
- Brief:Can You Reset Your Biological Age to Live a Longer, Healthier Life?
- Brief:Canada’s ‘Liberals’ Have a Disturbing Imperial Streak
- Brief:Captive Elephants: The Harsh Reality
- Brief:Carbon Farming: A Sustainable Agriculture Technique That Keeps Soil Healthy and Combats Climate Change
- Brief:Cats Are Fueling a Global Eco-Crisis, Pushing Birds and Other Species to Extinction
- Brief:Chickens Lack the Most Basic Legal Protection: The Right to Humane Slaughter
- Brief:Coins and Temples in the Ancient World
- Brief:Community Schools Can Revitalize the Neighborhoods Around Them
- Brief:Conservation Innovations: How Sustained Resistance Is Saving One of the Earth’s Most Critical Rainforests From Corporate Greed
- Brief:Can We Abandon Pollutive Fossil Fuels and Avoid an Energy Crisis?
- Brief:Can We Reach 100 Percent Renewable Energy in Time to Avert Climate Catastrophe?
- Brief:Carbon Capture Is a Potential Weapon Against Climate Change, but Will It Come Soon Enough?
- Brief:Chickens Deserve Our Respect
- Brief:Cities Around the World Are Fixing Our Broken Food System
- Brief:Climate Change Is Boosting Plant Pollen Production, Which Means More Seasonal Allergies
- Brief:Climate Crises Can Lead to Improved Social Cooperation and Economy
- Brief:Community Schools Were Working in Oakland, But the District Is Shutting Them Down Anyway
- Brief:Connecting With Nature Is a Path to Finding Joy in Life
- Brief:Corporations Are Turning Public Schools Into Their Workforce Training ‘Pipelines’
- Brief:Criminalizing Childhood: When the Justice System Fails America’s Youth
- Brief:Cruelty-Free Fashion: Growing Leather Without Animals
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- Brief:Debt Forgiveness in the Bronze Age
- Brief:Debt in Ancient Greece
- Brief:Do Grandmothers Hold the Key to Understanding Human Evolution?
- Drafts:Brief:What Are Prediction Markets—and Can They Really Predict the Future?
- Brief:Damming Rivers Is Terrible for Human Rights, Ecosystems and Food Security
- Brief:Declining Reading Habits Threaten U.S. Democracy and Social Connection
- Brief:Do Organic Farms Use Pesticides? How Organic and Conventional Farming Differ
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- Brief:Eight Themes in Mesopotamia’s Evolving Labor-Shaped Economies
- Brief:Eating Locally and in Season: Is It Really Better for the Environment?
- Brief:Equitywashing and the Hidden Costs of Sustainability
- Brief:Europe Is Perversely Causing the Destruction of U.S. Forests in the Name of Fighting Climate Change
- Brief:Explaining 21st-Century Capitalism in a Way Everyone Can Understand
- Brief:Exploring Community Care Systems in Boston Inspired by bell hooks
- Brief:Exploring Lyonesse: Where Myth, History, and Rising Seas Collide
- Brief:Exposing the Massive Climate Hypocrisy of International Insurance Companies
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- Brief:Factory Farms and the Next Pandemic: How Industrial Animal Agriculture Fuels Global Health Threats
- Brief:Feathers, Fame, and Fraud: The Story of Pauline Knip’s ''Les Pigeons''
- Brief:Financial Fraud, Malfeasance, and Ineptitude Plague Federal Government Charter Schools Program
- Brief:Food Companies Intentionally Make Their Products Addictive, and It’s Leading to Chronic Diseases
- Brief:Forests Thrive When Indigenous People Have Legal Stewardship of Their Land
- Brief:Free Market Ideology Compared to the Principles of Near Eastern Rulership
- Brief:Factory Farm Conditions Are Terrible for Animals—and Humans, Too
- Brief:Feeling Defeated by the Supreme Court’s EPA Ruling? There’s Still a Lot We Can Do
- Brief:From COVID-19 to Climate Change, Human Overpopulation Is the Big White Elephant in the Room
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- Brief:Gratitude Journaling: A Guide for Caregivers
- Brief:Greene Street Artists Coop Is a Haven for Philadelphia Creatives
- Brief:Grow Your Own Food—and a Kinder World: How Veganic Farming Can Turn Your Garden Into a Haven for All Life
- Brief:Guide to Climate Action in Your Local Community
- Brief:Guide to Factory-Farmed Chickens: Animal Cruelty on a Massive Scale
- Brief:Guide to Preserving Sacred Land Near You
- Brief:Guide to Starting a Lifetime Journey Into Yoga
- Brief:Guide to Sustainable, Eco-Friendly, Organic and Vegan Wine
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- Brief:Healing Through Words: How Creative Writing Empowers Caregivers
- Brief:How a 20th-Century Family Planning Agenda Fueled the Climate Crisis
- Brief:How a Holistic Approach to Animal Care Can Awaken Human Consciousness
- Brief:How Artificial Intelligence Challenges the Concept of Authorship
- Brief:How Banks and Investors Are Fueling a Global Biodiversity Crisis
- Brief:How Big Banks Fail Their Climate Commitments by Propping Up Big Meat
- Brief:How Community Solar Can Liberate You From Fossil Fuels
- Brief:How Data-Driven Storytelling Helps Good Causes Get Funded
- Brief:How Elite Infighting Made the Magna Carta
- Brief:How Greek Coinage Democratized the Character of Money
- Brief:How Human Ecology Education Can Counter Learned Social Hierarchies
- Brief:How Human Experience Makes Science Possible
- Brief:How Long Has Humanity Been at War With Itself?
- Brief:How Media Companies Can Meet Their Climate Commitments—and How Readers Can Help
- Brief:How People Are Fighting the World’s Reliance on the War Economy
- Brief:How Racism Is an Essential Tool for Maintaining the Capitalist Order
- Brief:How Science Fiction Can Inspire Environmentalism and Climate Action
- Brief:How Stories Change the Human Brain, Empathy, Memory, and Behavior
- Brief:How Student Loans Became America’s Financial Catastrophe
- Brief:How Sustainable Next-Gen Materials Can Create a More Ethical Consumer Market
- Brief:How Teachers and Organizers Challenged the First U.S. Education Savings Account Voucher Program
- Brief:How Technology Is Rewriting the Way We Write
- Brief:How Technology Shapes How We Move, Speak, and Think
- Brief:How the Built Environment Is Damaging Children’s Connection to Nature
- Brief:How the Camera Obscura Turned Dark Rooms Into Dreamlike Worlds
- Brief:How the Camp Lejeune Justice Act 2022 Can Help Veterans Impacted by Toxic Exposure
- Brief:How the Constitution Fails to Protect the Environment
- Brief:How the Crusades Shaped Finance in the West
- Brief:How the Food Industry Uses Big Tobacco’s Playbook
- Brief:How the Psychology of Oppression Perpetuates Harm to Animals and the Environment
- Brief:How the Rights of Nature Movement Is Reshaping Law and Culture
- Brief:How the World Hides Liability for Climate Deaths
- Brief:How to Build a Closer Connection With the Living World Around You
- Brief:How to Decolonize Our Battle Against Climate Change
- Brief:How to Make Recyclable Plastics Out of CO2 to Slow Climate Change
- Brief:How to Make Your Home and Yard Safe for Hummingbirds
- Brief:How Tourism Could Actually Help African Wildlife in One of Kenya’s Important National Reserves
- Brief:How Trophic Cascades Can Devastate Ecosystems and Endanger Human Health
- Brief:How U.S. States Can Protect the Environment From Federal Rollbacks and Intervention
- Brief:How Zoos Are Danger Zones for Deadly Disease Transmission Between Humans and Animals
- Brief:Hummingbirds Are in Rapid Decline
- Brief:Have Nonprofits Misled Supporters by Hiding Unsustainable Growth Policies?
- Brief:Here’s How We Can Localize Our Increasingly Fragile Food Systems
- Brief:Here’s What More Public Schools Need to Look Like After the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Brief:How ‘Flatland’ Explains Higher Dimensions Through Mathematical Fiction
- Brief:How 17th-Century Scholars Reimagined Narwhals as Unicorns
- Brief:How 19th-Century DIY Dyeing and the Global Ostrich Plume Trade Shaped Fashion and Conservation
- Brief:How a 17th-Century English Conwoman Shaped Early Novelistic Narratives
- Brief:How a Bird Flu Outbreak Wiped Out a Generation of Seals in Patagonia—and What It Means for Wildlife Conservation
- Brief:How a Forgotten 19th-Century Text Helped Spark the Modern Revival of Witchcraft
- Brief:How a Landmark 19th-Century Compendium Became Central to the Study and Representation of Demons
- Brief:How a Month-Long Dancing Plague Drove Hundreds in 1518 to Dance to Collapse
- Brief:How a Victorian Scientist Blended Poetry and Experiment to Reveal the Beauty of Nature
- Brief:How Accent Discrimination Reinforces America’s Deepest Divides
- Brief:How Agave Agroforestry Can Restore Drylands and Strengthen Climate Resilience
- Brief:How an Astronomer Hallucinated Marxism Into the Cosmos
- Brief:How Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophers Understood Time, Rebirth, and Recurrence
- Brief:How Artists Have Been on the Front Lines of Political Resistance for the Past 50 Years
- Brief:How Billionaire Charter School Funders Corrupted the School Leadership Pipeline
- Brief:How Bioenergy Causes Air Pollution: The Dark Side of Renewable Energy
- Brief:How Cabinets of Curiosity Gave Rise to Gallery Paintings
- Brief:How Capitalism’s Dogged Defenders and Propagandists Defend It From Criticism
- Brief:How Community Schools Can Transform Parent Involvement for the Better
- Brief:How Consciousness Shapes Culture, Communication, and Shared Meaning
- Brief:How Decades of Local Activism Led to the Biggest Dam Removal Deal In U.S. History
- Brief:How Earth-Centered Education Helps Children Learn Through Nature, Play, and Relationship
- Brief:How Environmental Laws Are Shifting the Focus From Humans to Nature
- Brief:How Extreme Multilingualism Reveals the Limits of Measuring Language Ability
- Brief:How Factory Farms Pollute the Environment and Poison Drinking Water
- Brief:How Fingerprints Became a Tool for Both Science and Racial Pseudoscience
- Brief:How Frank Norris Helped Shape the Art of Film Editing
- Brief:How Geometry Transformed Architecture in 18th-Century France
- Brief:How Horse-Drawn Carriages Shaped Cities—And Why Animal Welfare Is Phasing Them Out
- Brief:How Human Ecology Education Defuses the Roots of Terrorism
- Brief:How Human Ecology Shapes Social Democracy
- Brief:How Humans Have Driven Bird Populations to the Brink of Extinction
- Brief:How Humans Used Their Hands to Remember Everything
- Brief:How Images Map Dreams, Archetypes, and the Collective Unconscious
- Brief:How Indigenous Jarawara Women Use Snuff to Shape Movement, Meaning, and Daily Life
- Brief:How Indigenous Land Management Practices Are a Blueprint for Climate Resilient Agriculture
- Brief:How Informal Caregivers Use Storytelling to Build Community and Influence Policy
- Brief:How Joseph Banks Shaped the Public Image of Science
- Brief:How Losing Nature From Our Language Shapes Our World
- Brief:How Magic Mushrooms Shaped Victorian Imagination
- Brief:How Making Space for Grief Can Promote Community Healing
- Brief:How Microphotography Transformed Photography, Communication, and Everyday Objects
- Brief:How Microplastics Threaten Marine Ecosystems and the Food Chain
- Brief:How Music Theory Shaped 19th-Century Ideas About Beauty and Visual Art
- Brief:How Nehemiah Grew Helped Establish Modern Plant Anatomy
- Brief:How One Farmer’s Curiosity Revealed the Hidden Beauty of Snow Crystals and Pioneered Meteorology
- Brief:How Our Coffee Addiction Is Destroying the Environment
- Brief:How Propaganda and False Information Are Undermining Humanitarian Work
- Brief:How Public Benefit Claims Work—and Why Their Assumptions Matter
- Brief:How Queer Ecology Reveals the Diversity of Nature and Human Experience
- Brief:How Renaissance Comedy Reflected Gender Norms, Power, and Moral Blind Spots
- Brief:How Renaissance Scholars Recorded Vanished Knowledge and Curious Wonders
- Brief:How Rival Inventors Helped Create Motion Picture Technology
- Brief:How Sound Recording Became a Commercial Industry
- Brief:How the Acequia Ancient Irrigation Method Makes Sustainable Life Possible in the U.S. Southwest
- Brief:How the Cottingley Fairies Photographs Reveal Confirmation Bias In Evaluating Evidence
- Brief:How the First Slovak Novel Used Adventure and Philosophy to Forge a National Identity
- Brief:How the Polar Bear Inspired Darwin’s Ideas About Evolution
- Brief:How the Rise of Generative AI Rewrote the Rules for Tech Startups
- Brief:How The Secret Garden Became a Beloved Children’s Classic
- Brief:How to Decode Humane Food Labels at the Supermarket
- Brief:How to Solve the Big Problems That Small Family Farms Are Facing
- Brief:How to Talk to Your Kids About Climate Change (and Have Fun, Too)
- Brief:How Victorians Learned About Sound Through Popular Science
- Brief:How Workers Can Win the Class War Being Waged Upon Them
- Brief:How Zoos Can Contribute to Disease Transmission Between Humans and Animals