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The Handicapped
A young man with a severe physical disability reflects on how deformity shapes personality — and why those society marginalizes develop a peculiar insight into human nature.
A young man with a severe physical disability reflects on how deformity shapes personality — and why those society marginalizes develop a peculiar insight into human nature.
A father and son in Siberia are attempting to restore the mammoth steppe — an ancient grassland ecosystem that once covered the Arctic and could, if revived, slow the thawing of permafrost.
Is there a formula—some mix of love, work, and psychological adaptation—for a good life? For 72 years, researchers at Harvard have been examining this question, following 268 men who entered college in the late 1930s through war, career, marriage and divorce, parenthood and grandparenthood, and old age.
Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.
Before it became the New World, the Western Hemisphere was vastly more populous and sophisticated than has been thought—an altogether more salubrious place to live at the time than, say, Europe. New evidence of both the extent of the population and its agricultural advancement leads to a remarkable conjecture: The Amazon rainforest may be largely a human artifact.
The rumor of a devil baby at Hull-House draws hundreds of women seeking to see it. Addams explores what the legend reveals about the inner lives of women living at the margins.
Ehrlich arrives in Wyoming to film a documentary, stays to become a rancher, and finds in the spare landscape and spare speech of the West a cure for grief and an education in necessity.
Dillard watches a total solar eclipse from a hilltop in Washington state and discovers in two minutes of totality something that undoes her — and that she can barely bring herself to describe.
