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Imagine a researcher typing up results that didn’t quite happen as the paper will claim, perhaps in a rented apartment in Cairo or a university office…
A C-17 military transport plane banks toward a set of coordinates that no one hopes will ever matter, somewhere over the Pacific. Jet skis, inflatable boats,…
No crash occurred. There was never a day when the anchors began talking over one another and the screens went red. Rather, something more subdued occurred,…
Back in February, job seekers filed past rows of recruiters at a career fair at a community center in North Seattle with cautious, practiced optimism. With…
With the steam rising from the thermal basins, the frost still clinging to lodgepole pines, and the ground appearing perfectly normal underfoot, Yellowstone experiences a unique…
There’s a certain blankness when you walk past a closed Starbucks in downtown Toronto; the windows are dark, the green signage is gone, and there’s a…
Imagine a newly plastered home on the outskirts of Nairobi, a small store in Accra selling cell phone accessories, or a schoolgirl in the Gambia whose…
The image of a lump of rock and ice that is only a kilometer across tumbling through the inner solar system and then, in defiance of…
Certain types of power don’t make their presence known. It doesn’t hold a press conference, run for office, or receive Senate confirmation. It just appears—in the…
Imagine a person in their late twenties browsing through nearly affordable real estate listings while seated at a kitchen table in Austin or Miami. They purchased…