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Of Bugs and Men: Cricket Ranching in America
If Westerners can overcome their disgust of crickets—or any bug—as food, the environmental benefits could be significant.
If You Happen to Find Buried Treasure, Here's the Guy to Call
Donald Kagin holds the only doctorate degree in the study of the so-called hobby of kings.
Where Safeway Fears to Tread
West Baltimore's unlikely source of fruit.
Brother, Can You Spare a Shiv?
How to run for your life and make new friends at the same time.
Like a Broken Record
From beer milers to long-distance crawlers, the unending appeal of being No. 1.
19-Year-Old Teaching Your Laptop to Pick Up Your Feelings
Even though he's still a teenager, Catalin Voss is already a six-year veteran of the i-app industry, and now he's turning his attention to figuring out how computers might interact with humans more perceptively.
Step Right In: A Tour of an Amazon Fulfillment Center
With typically careful packaging, Amazon opens its doors to the public.
The Heist: How Visitors Stole a National Monument
Fossil Cycad National Monument was home to one of the world’s greatest collections of fossilized cycadeoids—until visitors carried them all away.
An Archaeologist Excavates a Tie-Dyed Modern Stereotype
What California’s senior state archaeologist discovered in the ruins of a hippie commune.
What Color Is Your Pygmy Goat?
The fierce battle over genetic purity, writ small. Very small.
Unreal Estate: The Art of Scrubbing All Identity From a Home
In a slow market, anxious sellers may hire a home stager to draw attention to their property, ultimately adding to the surging cost of real estate.
What Your Workout Says About Your Social Class
Why can't triathletes and weightlifters get along?
One Woman's Battle Against Pet Fads
Humans are hardwired to go jelly-kneed around creatures with kinderschema—infant traits like big eyes, big head, and small body. Can we resist it?
The Decline of the Physical Exam in Modern Medicine
Doctors today are too uncomfortable with uncertainty.
Alien Baby: Is Your Zygote American Enough?
The complicated relationship between citizenship and genetics.
Why Do We Keep Kicking Kids Out of School?
In a zero-tolerance era, at least one principal, armed with studies that show how suspensions disengage students and funnel them into a "school to prison" pipeline, is taking a different approach.
The Wretched Table: How Dinner in America Became an Ordeal
Modern dinner is stressful by design.
The Myth of Supervision: Child Safety Isn't About You
Increased vigilance isn't necessarily the best way to prevent child-safety issues and injuries.
Friends With Benefits: Psychologists and Sociologists on Facebook
Psychologists, sociologists, and neuroscientists like Facebook—and Facebook likes them back.
Among the Disbelievers: An African Skeptic Does Vegas
A fellow at the James Randi Educational Foundation, Leo Igwe is running a high-voltage campaign against witchcraft beliefs in Africa. Can he convince us to join his crusade against evils half a world away?
Our Jedi Future: How to Fly a Helicopter With Your Mind
On wearable brain scanners and telepathic toys.