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Why Animals Don’t Get Lost
Birds do it. Bees do it. Learning about the astounding navigational feats of wild creatures can teach us a lot about where we’re going, Kathryn Schulz writes.
High-speed accidents, crooked lawyers, and poor people desperate for cash—it was the kind of scheme that could have been cooked up only in the Big Easy. Patrick Radden Keefe reports.
Olo can be described as the “greenest green,” though it can never be captured by a camera, Rivka Galchen writes. But its development tells us a lot about our color vision.
Did a Climber Leave His Girlfriend to Die at the Top of a Mountain?
A couple—an experienced mountaineer and his girlfriend, a novice—set out to climb Austria’s tallest mountain. She died near the summit. Was it a case of “alpine divorce”? William Finnegan reports.
"Magic Mountain" is a famous 2012 article by The New Yorker staff writer Nick Paumgarten, detailing the annual World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos, Switzerland. It provides a sharp, witty look at the global elite and corporate speed-dating at 5,000 feet.
Adeline Goss writes about the case of Ray Howell, an Indiana physician who was arrested in 2011, on charges of recklessly prescribing narcotics, but who received a diagnosis, during the criminal proceedings, of a rare neurological condition that left his culpability in doubt.
Researchers at the company are trying to understand their A.I. system’s mind—examining its neurons, running it through psychology experiments, and putting it on the therapy couch.
How a Chinese Immigrant Driver Got Entangled in a Drug Bust
Jennifer Gonnerman reports on a driver from Queens who, in early 2025, arranged to pick up a passenger in New York’s North Country, and has been in jail upstate ever since.
Carson Griffith writes about Scott Pruitt, the most prolific super editor on Wikipedia, and the A.I. companies that lack the online encyclopedia’s human touch.
Thousands of people in Nigeria have been held for ransom by bandit groups. One professor escaped his captors—only to be abducted again. Alexis Okeowo reports.
Amy Davidson Sorkin on why, although Senator Rand Paul, who engineered the hearing, may have come at the matter with theatrics and ill will, Dr. Anthony Fauci’s decision to take the Fifth Amendment, rather than testify, was a loss.
Human-rights groups estimate that more than ten thousand Ukrainian civilians have disappeared into the Russian prison system. This is the story of one cell. Joshua Yaffa reports.
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