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I love microcosm, and macrocosm.
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The books, TV, games and more that New Scientist staff have enjoyed this week
New Scientist recommends this extreme birdwatching documentary
The books, TV, games and more that New Scientist staff have enjoyed this week
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November 20, 2025 at 8:29 AM
The books, TV, games and more that New Scientist staff have enjoyed this week
The Surprising Health Boost of Feeling Happy With… greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item...
The Surprising Health Boost of Feeling Happy With Someone Else
A new study finds that sharing positive feelings with your partner provides health benefits beyond your individual happiness alone.
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November 20, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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Anatomía de un duelo
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Anatomía de un duelo
Colaboraciones / Micro abierto
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November 20, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Anatomía de un duelo
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@janeciab.bsky.social talks to Iida Turpenen, the author Of Beasts Of The Sea, about exploring our relationship with the natural world through fiction.
Iida Turpeinen on Exploring Our Relationship With the Natural World Through Fiction
Iida Turpenen’s Beasts of the Sea, translated from the Finnish by David Hackston, is a rare first novel, drawing readers into intimate connection with a little-known species, the Stellar’s sea cow.…
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November 18, 2025 at 4:00 PM
@janeciab.bsky.social talks to Iida Turpenen, the author Of Beasts Of The Sea, about exploring our relationship with the natural world through fiction.
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"Remembering Alice Wong: Writer, Advocate, Friend"
Steven W. Thrasher on Meeting and Collaborating with the Outspoken Founder of the Disability Visibility Project
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Steven W. Thrasher on Meeting and Collaborating with the Outspoken Founder of the Disability Visibility Project
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Remembering Alice Wong: Writer, Advocate, Friend
Though we were in frequent conversation for a decade, I only got to meet my friend Alice Wong in person just once. And when I did, I was a bundle of nerves—and that was before she cussed me out wi…
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November 17, 2025 at 8:22 PM
"Remembering Alice Wong: Writer, Advocate, Friend"
Steven W. Thrasher on Meeting and Collaborating with the Outspoken Founder of the Disability Visibility Project
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Steven W. Thrasher on Meeting and Collaborating with the Outspoken Founder of the Disability Visibility Project
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How do we know aliens do science? “Just because aliens arrive with snazzy blasters doesn’t mean they can explain how they work, or that they even care to know.”
What If Aliens Don’t Actually Do Science?
Before we can achieve an interspecies scientific mind meld with visiting aliens and crack the secrets of the Universe, we have a few pesky problems to take care of. We are eager to download alien t…
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November 19, 2025 at 4:30 PM
How do we know aliens do science? “Just because aliens arrive with snazzy blasters doesn’t mean they can explain how they work, or that they even care to know.”
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The 2025 National Book Award finalists answer our questions about their books, their writing lives, and more!
Meet the 2025 National Book Award Finalists
The winners of the 76th National Book Awards—given every year in Young People’s Literature, Translation, Poetry, Nonfiction, and Fiction—will be announced next week in a ceremony hosted by Jeff Hil…
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November 19, 2025 at 5:45 PM
The 2025 National Book Award finalists answer our questions about their books, their writing lives, and more!
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@gabbybellot.bsky.social explains why Calvin and Hobbes belongs in the canon.
Why Calvin and Hobbes is Great Literature
“To an editor,” Bill Watterson, the creator of Calvin and Hobbes, wrote in 2001, “space may be money, but to a cartoonist, space is time. Space provides the tempo and rhythm of th…
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November 19, 2025 at 6:01 PM
@gabbybellot.bsky.social explains why Calvin and Hobbes belongs in the canon.
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“Pristine maps are unused maps and so, while they might be nicer to look at, they are sure to have had much less intriguing histories.” In praise of old maps.
Where Time and Space Collide: In Praise of Old Maps
“Maps are funny things because they appear to be the reality, and yet they give you a tremendous opportunity to dream.” –Peter Barber * Not long into my searches of the Map Library I grew impatient…
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November 19, 2025 at 6:30 PM
“Pristine maps are unused maps and so, while they might be nicer to look at, they are sure to have had much less intriguing histories.” In praise of old maps.
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Jessie Gaynor on why Literary Twitter wouldn’t have been the same without Joyce Carol Oates: “She remains the only writer whose Twitter presence makes me more interested in reading their non-Twitter work. She is giving both everything and nothing.”
Our favorite Literary Twitter moments: Jessie Gaynor on Joyce Carol Oates
Pulling together the 64 original Literary Twitter moments and incidents to create our winter game, What Was Literary Twitter? The Bracket, required the vast institutional memory of the entire Lit H…
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November 19, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Jessie Gaynor on why Literary Twitter wouldn’t have been the same without Joyce Carol Oates: “She remains the only writer whose Twitter presence makes me more interested in reading their non-Twitter work. She is giving both everything and nothing.”
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Daniel Nayeri’s The Teacher of Nomad Land: A World War II Story has won the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature!
November 20, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Daniel Nayeri’s The Teacher of Nomad Land: A World War II Story has won the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature!
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Gabriela Cabezón Cámara’s We Are Green and Trembling, translated by Robin Myers, wins the National Book Award for Translated Literature!
November 20, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Gabriela Cabezón Cámara’s We Are Green and Trembling, translated by Robin Myers, wins the National Book Award for Translated Literature!
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Patricia Smith’s The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems has won the National Book Award for Poetry! Read more here: buff.ly/HKCSQQQ
Patricia Smith on How a Poet Ages
Nobody—and I mean NOBODY—warned me about my pubic hair. It glistened for years, springy and sprite, an Ivory Soap-scented welcome mat for lucky episodic visitors. I never gave it much thought, cert…
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November 20, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Patricia Smith’s The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems has won the National Book Award for Poetry! Read more here: buff.ly/HKCSQQQ
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Omar El Akkad’s One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This wins the National Book Award for Nonfiction! Read more here:
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Omar El Akkad on Genocide, Complicit Liberals, and the Terrible Wrath of the West
On October 25, 2023—when Israel’s war on Gaza had already claimed the lives of 6,500 Palestinians, including 2,500 children—the Egyptian-Canadian novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad posted …
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November 20, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Omar El Akkad’s One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This wins the National Book Award for Nonfiction! Read more here:
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Rabih Alameddine’s The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) has won the National Book Award for Fiction! Read more here:
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Six Very Depressing Books That Might Just Cheer You Up
I’ve always read my way through depressions. When my world sucks, I shut the drapes, hide under the cover, and read. And I will read everything: novels, classics, epic fantasy, romance, spy novels,…
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November 20, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Rabih Alameddine’s The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) has won the National Book Award for Fiction! Read more here:
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November 19, 2025
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November 19, 2025
Yesterday the House of Representatives passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
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One Way to Improve Teen Mental Health: Activism
A new study finds that teens involved in youth programs develop more critical reflection and take more action to fight injustice and inequality.
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November 20, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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America's 1,653,466.88 pound problem
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America's 1,653,466.88 pound problem
The U.S. Mint has stopped making pennies. Don't worry, I have a plan. WRITTEN & ILLUSTRATED by PETER MOORE
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November 20, 2025 at 1:35 AM
America's 1,653,466.88 pound problem
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Recent studies prove the ancient practice of nasal irrigation is effective at fighting the common cold
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Recent studies prove the ancient practice of nasal irrigation is effective at fighting the common cold
Nasal irrigation has been used to treat the common cold for thousands of years, and modern science shows that it works.
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November 19, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Recent studies prove the ancient practice of nasal irrigation is effective at fighting the common cold
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A next step to finding life beyond Earth
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The next step in finding life beyond Earth
Searching for life on other planets requires more than just measuring their distances from their stars. A future NASA telescope may help search for potentially habitable worlds.
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November 19, 2025 at 9:27 PM
A next step to finding life beyond Earth
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My Eating Disorder Made Me Look, Act and Feel Like A Teenaged Boy
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My Eating Disorder Made Me Look, Act and Feel Like A Teenaged Boy
Not a man, mind you. A boy, taken care of, athletic, existing on the 7/11 diet of caffeine and sour candy. Sure, I lost teeth, stomach lining and fertility, but I never got my ass grabbed.
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November 19, 2025 at 9:22 PM
My Eating Disorder Made Me Look, Act and Feel Like A Teenaged Boy
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We’re a proud partner of Botanic Gardens Conservation International, @usbotanicgarden.bsky.social, @croptrust.bsky.social, & @fao.org on the GCCFP to strengthen food security & biodiversity conservation—and excited for its global 11/22 launch in Peru as part of the @planttreaty.bsky.social session.
November 19, 2025 at 7:41 PM
We’re a proud partner of Botanic Gardens Conservation International, @usbotanicgarden.bsky.social, @croptrust.bsky.social, & @fao.org on the GCCFP to strengthen food security & biodiversity conservation—and excited for its global 11/22 launch in Peru as part of the @planttreaty.bsky.social session.
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My latest for @science.org: A remarkable set of high-resolution climate model runs, computed over 900 (!) days of supercomputing time, are revealing how warming-induced changes to Earth's wind patterns due can prime huge spikes in extreme rainfall.
But the MESACLIP runs also do much more than that.
But the MESACLIP runs also do much more than that.
High-resolution climate model forecasts a wet, turbulent future
With details as fine as short-term weather forecasts, model achieves newfound accuracy
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November 18, 2025 at 2:35 PM
My latest for @science.org: A remarkable set of high-resolution climate model runs, computed over 900 (!) days of supercomputing time, are revealing how warming-induced changes to Earth's wind patterns due can prime huge spikes in extreme rainfall.
But the MESACLIP runs also do much more than that.
But the MESACLIP runs also do much more than that.
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Coiled nerves allow chameleons to move their eyes in multiple directions at once without moving their heads. https://scim.ag/3LLUFgk
The twisted secret behind a chameleon’s oddball eyes
Coiled nerves allow the reptiles to move their peepers in multiple directions at once without moving their heads
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November 18, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Coiled nerves allow chameleons to move their eyes in multiple directions at once without moving their heads. https://scim.ag/3LLUFgk
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While the range of physical diversity dogs show is often thought to be the result of intense breeding over the last 200 years, a new Science study suggests domestic dogs began developing their distinctive forms thousands of years before humans started shaping modern breeds. https://scim.ag/4nVRhNq
The emergence and diversification of dog morphology
Dogs exhibit an exceptional range of morphological diversity as a result of their long-term association with humans. Attempts to identify when dog morphological variation began to expand have been con...
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November 18, 2025 at 8:11 PM
While the range of physical diversity dogs show is often thought to be the result of intense breeding over the last 200 years, a new Science study suggests domestic dogs began developing their distinctive forms thousands of years before humans started shaping modern breeds. https://scim.ag/4nVRhNq