Science · History
The Man Who Went Looking for a Campsite and Found 390 Million Years
A camping search led amateur astronomer Joël Lapointe to a possible 390-million-year-old impact crater in Quebec. The discovery began with a circle on a map.
Proof of Hope
The Light Turned Outward
Cynicism about celebrity advocacy asks the wrong question. The better one is what happens once the cameras leave.
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Proof of Hope
Carefully researched stories of kindness, conservation, discovery and resilience.
Environment · Human Rights · People
The woman who made the government listen
Promise Mabilo went to eMalahleni looking for opportunity. What she learned there helped turn community organising into a landmark South African clean-air judgment.
Innovation · Education · Resilience
The Part You Thought Was Fixed
What paper centrifuges, rubble, wire toys and a school textbook reveal about ingenuity, agency and the parts of a problem we mistake for fixed.
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Ordinary Astonishment
Science, history and the gaps between what we assumed and what is actually true.
Psychology · Perception
The Door You Thought You Knew
On déjà vu, jamais vu, and the curious ways familiarity shapes what we think we know.
Psychology · Perception
The Moment You Stop Noticing
What happens when the mind learns to tune out the world around it, from the hum of a refrigerator to suffering, kindness and the things familiarity teaches us not to see.
Neuroscience · Perception
The World Your Brain Gives You
You never experience the machinery that constructs reality. You experience its conclusion.
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