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‘We Wish to Be Able to Sing’
For more than half a century, the people of Easter Island lived under an oppressive colonial regime. Then a schoolteacher sparked an unlikely revolution.
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Why Closing Prisons — Even Bad Ones — Is Complicated
From politics to economics, closing old or bad prisons is not always straightforward. Even some incarcerated people have mixed emotions.
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Fire in the Belly
Probing the way we overthink and underfeel our existence, Aboriginal scholar Tyson Yunkaporta urges us to attend to a vital intelligence beyond the cerebral: the fire in our gut.
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Why it’s so hard to warn people about flash floods
People usually only have hours of notice in advance. The disaster in Texas was a worst-case scenario.
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A Feast for Lost Souls
In Sinaloa, Mexico, women are recovering the bodies of missing loved ones—and cooking to keep memories of the dead alive.
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You can’t ban compassion’: helping stray cats is illegal in much of Australia – but for some, it’s worth the risk
Sarah knows they can be ‘incredibly destructive’ to the environment – but she doesn’t understand how people can look at a hungry cat and not feed it