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PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or recommended by our readers because they are important, surprising, troubling, enlightening, inspiring, or amusing. They appear on our site and in our daily newsletter. Please send suggested articles, videos, podcasts, etc. to picks@whowhatwhy.org. Genetic Mapping Boosts Hopes for Restoring Prized Lake Trout (Maria) The […]
Seeing is believing. Two museum exhibitions in a gentrifying Austin tackle race and culture in the Lone Star state.
PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or recommended by our readers because they are important, surprising, troubling, enlightening, inspiring, or amusing. They appear on our site and in our daily newsletter. Please send suggested articles, videos, podcasts, etc. to picks@whowhatwhy.org. Hubble Space Telescope Fixed After Month of No Science (Maria) The […]
PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or recommended by our readers because they are important, surprising, troubling, enlightening, inspiring, or amusing. They appear on our site and in our daily newsletter. Please send suggested articles, videos, podcasts, etc. to picks@whowhatwhy.org. What Does a Worker Want? What the Labor Shortage Really […]
In western Arizona, the push for electric vehicles threatens the Hualapai Tribe’s sacred sites and religious practices.
How Will Trump’s Insurrection End — Or Will It?
One of the original JFK assassination investigators breaks down the 58-year-old case into its basic parts.
Elizabeth Kolbert explains why climate change is just the tip of the iceberg. We are causing geological and ecological changes that will drastically alter this planet and its species forever.
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After being one of the first COVID-19 epicenters in the US, New York City is making a comeback through vaccinations and strict mitigation techniques.
A parting shot by Donald Trump is about to destroy the San Carlos Apaches’ equivalent of Mount Sinai, revered for millennia by earlier tribes.
Nuclear tech startups promise a climate change solution in exchange for heavy government subsidies. Whether they’ll deliver in time is a gamble some are not willing to take.