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- The ‘Blue Economy’ Myth: We Have to Stop Thinking Like the Ocean Can Be Run Like a Business
- Behind the ‘Economic Policy’ Façade, It’s Class War
- ‘POOR Magazine’ Started With a Mother and Daughter Experiencing Homelessness and Grew Into a Movement
- Community Rights and Public Trust
- ‘Sacrifice Zones’: The New ‘Jim Crow’ That’s Sickening and Killing People of Color
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- How 19th-Century DIY Dyeing and the Global Ostrich Plume Trade Shaped Fashion and Conservation
- 1,3-Dichloropropene: The Dangerous, Sweet-Smelling Pesticide You’ve Never Heard Of
- Want to Help Stop the Plastic Scourge? Stop Relying on Recycling and Do This Instead
- 8 Billion Humans? Population Is a Difficult Conversation, but We Need to Start Getting Real
- 10 Reasons Why Hydropower Dams Are a False Climate Solution
- 21 Days of Divesting from the War Economy: Active Practice
- Explaining 21st-Century Capitalism in a Way Everyone Can Understand
- 600 Million Metric Tons of Plastic May Fill Oceans by 2036 If We Don’t Act Now
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- A 20th-Century Medium Who Produced Literary Works Attributed to a Deceased Author
- A Historical Case for Why the EU Could Endure for More Than 1,000 Years
- A Lesson of Coronavirus: Hunting Wildlife Can Be Deadly
- A National Asbestos-Exposure Registry of Veterans Could Combat Misdiagnosis in Mesothelioma Cases Nationwide
- A Scholar’s Quest to Find the Ancestral People of the Most Influential Language on Earth
- A Tale of Two Nations: The North Aral Sea Rebounds While the South Aral Sea Dries Up
- A Tour of the World’s Oldest Railways Still in Operation
- How Decades of Local Activism Led to the Biggest Dam Removal Deal In U.S. History
- Activists in Philly Have a Novel Approach to Help De-Oppress Society
- The Adaptive Value of Teenagers: How Peer Learning Contributes to Primate Success
- Advances in Archaeology Allow Us to Understand Political Evolution and Social Change in Deep Time
- Afro-Descendant Communities Offer a Living Blueprint for Amazon Conservation
- Agrivoltaics: The Farm-to-Solar Trend That Can Help Accelerate the Renewable Energy Transition
- The AI Power Play: How ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Others Are Shaping the Future of Artificial Intelligence
- Air Pollution Is Killing Millions and Rising Exponentially—A Shift in Agriculture Can Solve It
- Alternatives to Policing
- America Is Still Using Diquat, a Toxic Weedkiller Banned in Much of the World
- An Ancient Recipe for Social Success
- The Ancient Patterns of Migration
- The Animal Feed Industry’s Impact on the Planet
- Animal-Free Agriculture Is Key to Restoring Biodiversity
- Anthropology for Kids and Visual Assembly Are Reimagining Work, Education, Money, and More
- Archaeology Can Now Tell Us How People Have Muffled and Challenged Economic Inequality Across History
- Archaeology Is Flipping the Script on What We Know About Ancient Mesoamerica
- Archeologists Join Geologists in the Quest to Define the Age of Humans
- Are Community Schools the Last, Best Shot at Addressing Education Inequity?
- Are Plant-Eaters Smarter and More Empathetic Than Meat-Eaters?
- Are the Bodies of Old Kingdom Pharaohs Cached in the Pyramid of Amenemhat I?
- Are there still undiscovered chambers or tunnels beneath or within the pyramids and the Giza plateau?
- Are Western Oligarchies a Long Detour of Civilization?
- Arkeopolitics: Reframing Human History from Scratch
- Around the World in Nine Festivals: How Music Unites Us Across Borders
- The Art of Building a Human-Hawk Relationship
- As a Growing Social Movement and Self-Care Practice, Death Literacy Is Fostering Positive Conversations About the End
- As History Erasure Intensifies, Independent Internet Archives Are Helping Fortify the ‘Digital Preservation Infrastructure’
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- Bees Are Sentient and May Be Self-Aware
- Better Family Planning Can Improve Public Health, Inequality and the Environment
- Between Life and Death: What Near-Death Experiences Reveal About Consciousness
- Big Banks Break Their Climate Promises by Propping Up Big Meat
- How a Bird Flu Outbreak Wiped Out a Generation of Seals in Patagonia—and What It Means for Wildlife Conservation
- Bluewashed: How the Beauty Industry Sold an Ocean-Friendly Illusion
- Building Fairer Cities: New Insights From Mohenjo-daro
- Buraq in Islamic Tradition: Origins, Symbolism, and Artistic Representations of the Winged Steed
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- How the Camera Obscura Turned Dark Rooms Into Dreamlike Worlds
- Can We Abandon Pollutive Fossil Fuels and Avoid an Energy Crisis?
- Can Humanity Repair Its Relationship With Nature? Weaving Earth Education Center Offers a Promising Path
- Can science explain the large void discovered inside the Great Pyramid (via muon scanning)?
- Can Teething Predict How Fast You Will Grow?
- Can We Save the World’s Largest Flowers From the Brink of Extinction?
- Capitalism’s Unequal Distribution Deprives You of True Freedom
- Captive Elephants: The Harsh Reality
- Carbon Capture Is a Potential Weapon Against Climate Change, but Will It Come Soon Enough?
- Carbon Farming: A Sustainable Agriculture Technique That Keeps Soil Healthy and Combats Climate Change
- The Case for Protecting the Tongass National Forest, America’s ‘Last Climate Sanctuary’
- The Centers of Global Capitalism Are Migrating Away From the U.S., Europe and Japan
- The Central Role of Collaboration and Trust in Human Societies
- Chickens Are Smarter Than You Think
- Chickens Lack the Most Basic Legal Protection: The Right to Humane Slaughter
- A Circular Economy
- Cities Made Differently: Try Imagining Another Urban Existence
- Climate Change Is Boosting Plant Pollen Production, Which Means More Seasonal Allergies
- Climate Crises Can Lead to Improved Social Cooperation and Economy
- Coins and Temples in the Ancient World
- The Commercial Fishing Industry Is Destroying Vital Marine Ecosystems
- Exploring Community Care Systems in Boston Inspired by bell hooks
- Community in Motion
- Community Schools Can Revitalize the Neighborhoods Around Them
- The Community Schools Model
- Community Schools Were Working in Oakland, But the District Is Shutting Them Down Anyway
- Community Support Helps the Orca Book Cooperative Stay Afloat
- Recycling the Discarded
- Connecting With Nature Is a Path to Finding Joy in Life
- Conservation Innovations: How Sustained Resistance Is Saving One of the Earth’s Most Critical Rainforests From Corporate Greed
- The Controversy Over Cannibalism
- Corporations Are Turning Public Schools Into Their Workforce Training ‘Pipelines’
- Costa Rica: The New Grand Tour
- The Courage of Care Coalition Helps Deconstruct Patterns of Domination and Oppression
- Crack the Indus Script
- Cracking Linear A
- The Cradle of Humanity
- The Creation of Order
- Criminalizing Childhood: When the Justice System Fails America’s Youth
- Cruelty-Free Fashion: Growing Leather Without Animals
- The Curious Craze for “Little Switzerlands” in 19th-Century England
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- Damming Rivers Is Terrible for Human Rights, Ecosystems and Food Security
- The Danger of Releasing Genetically Modified Trees Into the Wild
- The Dark Side of Ecotourism: When Green Travel Exploits People and the Planet
- How Data-Driven Storytelling Helps Good Causes Get Funded
- Dead States, Living Borders: Three Historical Cases of ‘State Revival’: Armenia, Vietnam, and Poland
- Debt Forgiveness in the Bronze Age
- Debt in Ancient Greece
- Declining Reading Habits Threaten U.S. Democracy and Social Connection
- Decoding the Multiple Lives of the Nebra Sky Disc
- Democracy Depends on Broad-Based Taxation—History Is Clear About That
- Did Ancient People Use the “Baghdad Battery” to Harness Electricitiy?
- The Different Ways That the U.S. and Chinese Governments Use Their Power to Regulate Capitalism
- Digging Up the Roots of Human Culture
- Discarding Old Theories on the Path to Finding the First Humans Outside Africa
- Do Grandmothers Hold the Key to Understanding Human Evolution?
- Do Organic Farms Use Pesticides? How Organic and Conventional Farming Differ
- Do Other Animals Have Consciousness? Science Could Force Us to Rethink Our Relationships With Them
- Do the pyramids encode knowledge older than dynastic Egypt, possibly inherited from an earlier culture?
- A Minimum Wage? A Fake Debate
- The Double Edge Theater’s Project to ‘Rematriate Land’
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- Eight Themes in Mesopotamia’s Evolving Labor-Shaped Economies
- The Emperor’s New Clothes: Fashion, Politics, and Identity in Mughal South Asia
- Enrollment in Nature Schools Soars as Families Rediscover the Benefits of Outdoor Learning
- Equitywashing and the Hidden Costs of Sustainability
- The Evolution of Mankind’s First Voice: How Drums Shape the Human Story
- The Evolution of the Human Pair Bond
- Exploring Ancient Understandings of Meteorites in Archaic Societies
- Exploring Lyonesse: Where Myth, History, and Rising Seas Collide
- Exposing the Massive Climate Hypocrisy of International Insurance Companies
- The Extreme Cruelty of Putting Mother Pigs in ‘Gestation Crates’
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- Facing a Surge in Wildfires, the U.S. Government Turned to Native Wisdom and Advanced Archaeology
- Factory Farms and the Next Pandemic: How Industrial Animal Agriculture Fuels Global Health Threats
- How One Farmer’s Curiosity Revealed the Hidden Beauty of Snow Crystals and Pioneered Meteorology
- Feathers, Fame, and Fraud: The Story of Pauline Knip’s ''Les Pigeons''
- Financial Fraud, Malfeasance, and Ineptitude Plague Federal Government Charter Schools Program
- Finding the Roots of Religion in Human Prehistory
- Why Food and Nutrition Deserves Its Own Public School Curriculum
- Food Companies Intentionally Make Their Products Addictive, and It’s Leading to Chronic Diseases
- Food Museums Uncover the Culture, Science, and History Behind the Food at the End of Your Fork
- Forests Thrive When Indigenous People Have Legal Stewardship of Their Land
- The Forgotten 10 Billion Lives: A Tale of Suffering, Survival, and the Fight to See Farmed Animals
- The Founding Fathers: America’s First Climate Advocates
- France: The New Grand Tour
- Free Market Ideology Compared to the Principles of Near Eastern Rulership
- The Frontier Research of Michael Levin’s Biology Lab
- The Function of the University in a Time of Crisis
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- The Genetic Secrets That Help Some Animals Defy Aging
- The Gilded Age of Animal Advocacy: A Transformative Era for America’s Moral Compass
- Pets and the Pet Industry Are Major Contributors to the Global Extinction Crisis
- The Global Push for Population Growth Shows We’re Not Grappling With the Climate Crisis
- The Globalized, Industrialized Food System Is Destroying the World—We Urgently Need to Support Local Food Economies
- Gratitude Journaling: A Guide for Caregivers
- The Great Archaeological Discovery of Our Time
- Greene Street Artists Coop Is a Haven for Philadelphia Creatives
- Grow Your Own Food—and a Kinder World: How Veganic Farming Can Turn Your Garden Into a Haven for All Life
- The Growing Inequality Among Countries and the Worsening Climate Crisis
- The Growing Movement to Bring Back Community Grief and Ritual
- The Growth of Malignant and Exclusionary Social Movements
- Humanity Is Getting Increasingly Serious About Enforcing Animal Rights Protections All Over the Planet
- Guide to Becoming an Environmental Leader and Inspiring the Next Generation of Eco-Defenders
- Guide to Climate Action in Your Local Community
- Guide to Factory-Farmed Chickens: Animal Cruelty on a Massive Scale
- Guide to Preserving Sacred Land Near You
- Guide to Starting a Lifetime Journey Into Yoga
- Guide to Sustainable, Eco-Friendly, Organic and Vegan Wine
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- How Human Ecology Education Can Counter Learned Social Hierarchies
- How Stories Change the Human Brain, Empathy, Memory, and Behavior
- How Technology Is Rewriting the Way We Write
- Have Nonprofits Misled Supporters by Hiding Unsustainable Growth Policies?
- Head of Ennius: Where is the missing head of Roman general Scipio Africanus?
- Healing Through Words: How Creative Writing Empowers Caregivers
- The Hidden Cost of AI: How Energy-Hungry Algorithms Are Fueling the Climate Crisis
- The Hidden Crisis: How America Fails to Protect Its Children
- Highlander Research and Education Center Brings Old-School Expertise to Present-Day Issues
- How a Holistic Approach to Animal Care Can Awaken Human Consciousness
- Home Improvement
- The Host of ‘The Attitude with Arnie Arnesen’ on Corporate Media Contamination, News Soundbites, and the Trump Administration’s Impact on Public Affairs Reporting
- How The Secret Garden Became a Beloved Children’s Classic
- How ‘Flatland’ Explains Higher Dimensions Through Mathematical Fiction
- How 17th-Century Scholars Reimagined Narwhals as Unicorns
- How a 17th-Century English Conwoman Shaped Early Novelistic Narratives
- Volapük: The Language Invented to Unite Humanity—and Failed
- How a 20th-Century Family Planning Agenda Fueled the Climate Crisis
- How a Community Collaborative in Arkansas Is Pioneering Solutions to Long-Standing Social Problems
- How a Forgotten 19th-Century Text Helped Spark the Modern Revival of Witchcraft
- How a Landmark 19th-Century Compendium Became Central to the Study and Representation of Demons
- How a Month-Long Dancing Plague Drove Hundreds in 1518 to Dance to Collapse
- How a Neighborhood Co-op Started by Teens Helped Communities Around the U.S. Adopt Solar Power
- How a Worker Cooperative Is Mitigating the Stray Animal Crisis in Texas
- How Academics Are Pushing Back on the For-Profit Academic Publishing Industry
- How Accent Discrimination Reinforces America’s Deepest Divides
- How Agave Agroforestry Can Restore Drylands and Strengthen Climate Resilience
- How an Astronomer Hallucinated Marxism Into the Cosmos
- How Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophers Understood Time, Rebirth, and Recurrence
- How and When Was the Shroud of Turin Made?
- How Animal Agriculture Drains Our Freshwater Supplies
- How Archaeologists Can Solve the Earth’s ‘Wicked Problems’
- How Artificial Intelligence Challenges the Concept of Authorship
- How Artists Have Been on the Front Lines of Political Resistance for the Past 50 Years
- How Banks and Investors Are Fueling a Global Biodiversity Crisis
- How Billionaire Charter School Funders Corrupted the School Leadership Pipeline
- How Bioenergy Causes Air Pollution: The Dark Side of Renewable Energy
- How Cabinets of Curiosity Gave Rise to Gallery Paintings