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Finding out that the bacteria that live in your gut, on your skin, and in the back of your nose may be more knowledgeable about your…

The time for Social Security is running out. In contrast to Washington’s typical approach to fiscal crises, which is abstract, remote, and someone else’s problem, this…

When things go wrong in small towns, a certain kind of stubbornness emerges. Quiet and methodical, not boisterous or dramatic. Most people thought it was over…

Recall April of 2021. There was no such thing as ChatGPT. The term “large language model” was more appropriate for scholarly articles than casual conversations. Nvidia…

If you’re considering buying a car, there’s a certain kind of dread that sets in around budget season. You’ve done your homework, visited a showroom, and…

On a Tuesday afternoon, you’ll notice things in a Dollar Tree that would never be mentioned in a press release. Compared to a year ago, the…

The American electrical grid has a subtle unsettling quality. You operate dishwashers, flip switches, and charge phones on a daily basis without really considering what’s underneath.…

Dawn Watson encountered the trees while swimming three hundred yards off the coast of Norfolk, about twenty feet below the surface. Not driftwood. Not rubble. Massive…

When you pull into the largest truck stop in the world, the Iowa 80 near Walcott, a small city of diesel and fluorescent light planted in…

Most people’s mental maps of American industrial ambition do not include the town of Clay, New York. It is located in an area of upstate New…