Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe on accepting failure as a path to creative healing in her debut memoir, ‘Red Paint.’ Sasha taqʷšəblu … More
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Why Amazing Discoveries About Bear Hibernation May Help Improve Human Health
The creatures’ annual protracted snoozes have much to tell us about the biology of mammals, ourselves included Chris Woolston, Knowable Magazine … More
Who Really Killed Jimmy Hoffa?
(And was the frozen salmon a red herring?) Errol Morris – Air Mail “Truth never shows itself directly. It always … More
Captain Cook and His Crew Stole These Spears. Centuries Later, They’re Finally Back in Sydney
Sarah Kuta – Daily Correspondent – April 14, 2022 – Smithsonian When British explorer James Cook and the crew of … More
Putin’s Enemy No. 1
Eight questions with Bill Browder, whose new book, Freezing Order, offers a captivating follow-up to his 2015 nonfiction Russia thriller, Red Notice Interview … More
The Reckoning Is Yet to Come
Through the Russia-Ukraine conflict, Europe has been rediscovering the values of the continent’s half-forgotten legacy. Marc Weitzann – 12 April … More
Mushrooms May Communicate With Each Other Using Electrical Impulses
A computer scientist found the average fungal lexicon contains 50 words Elizabeth Gamillo – Smithsonian – 12 April “Mushrooms on … More
Why Algorithms Are Called Algorithms, and How It All Goes Back to the Medieval Persian Mathematician Muhammad al-Khwarizmi – Video Embedded
History Magazine – 12 April “In recent decades, a medieval Persian word has come to prominence in English and other … More
Global food prices rise to highest ever levels after Russian invasion
World wheat prices soared by 19.7% in March as war in Ukraine disrupted Black Sea exports, FAO price index reveals. … More
Is iron the Achilles’ heel for cancer?
Cancer cells hoard iron in usually high quantities. Scientists have discovered how to leverage this to create safer cancer drugs. … More