When Iñupiat hunters and biologists began finding ancient weapon fragments inside bowhead whales harvested in Arctic Alaska, the discoveries posed an extraordinary question: how long had these animals been swimming with pieces of an earlier...
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Astronomy has a reputation for expensive telescopes, complicated star charts and distant objects visible only through professional instruments. Yet some of the sky's most memorable events re...
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Look down at a computer keyboard and you are looking at a museum whose exhibits still work. Some keys preserve decisions made by nineteenth-century typewriter manufacturers. Others carry sym...
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There is a peculiar kind of certainty that appears around traditional food. A grandmother made a dish one way, a restaurant in its supposed birthplace serves it another, and suddenly one ver...
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Few subjects can turn an ordinary Italian lunch into a tribunal quite as quickly as a traditional recipe. Put cream in carbonara, use pancetta instead of guanciale, add garlic where somebody...
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For years, the basic experience of generative AI could be reduced to a remarkably simple exchange: you type something, the machine types something back. Ask for a summary, a translation, an...
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In North Pole, Alaska, the holiday spirit is a year-round affair. Streets have festive names like Santa Claus Lane, and residents often decorate their homes with Christmas lights regardless...
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Imagine a town where your daily commute doesn’t involve traffic lights—but a bush plane. In remote corners of Alaska and the U.S., several communities exist without any road access. One of t...
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Hey, have you ever heard about the "Pink Moon"? Is it actually pink, like a giant piece of candy floating in the sky? It sounds totally bizarre, almost like an illusion! Well, the "Pink M...
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Hey, so you know that "Pink Moon" thing I heard about? Is it actually, like, bright pink, a giant cotton candy ball in the sky? It sounds totally weird! Okay, so the "Pink Moon" isn't rea...
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