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ift.tt/30mC91n A mini ice age that lasted 125 years started in the 6th century. Now we may have identified the volcano that kicked it all off via ift.tt/2TOY1QL ift.tt/2JJBK25

ift.tt/2ZdIJWN During an estate sale in the late 1990s, Geoff Story was sifting through one of the grand old houses across from Forest Park when he discovered an intriguing canister of 8mm film. It was titled "A Gay Party." Story…

ift.tt/2ZdIJWN During an estate sale in the late 1990s, Geoff Story was sifting through one of the grand old houses across from Forest Park when he discovered an intriguing canister of 8mm film. It was titled "A Gay Party." Story…

ift.tt/2OZND9P Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2019 August 18 Human as Spaceship Space Image…

ift.tt/2To4H8b The federal courthouse in Tucson, Arizona, has always been a place where the borderlands and the American justice system collide. Described by its engineers as “a gateway to the desert and the mountains beyond,” it was completed in 2000,…

ift.tt/2OYWtEQ President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 9, 2019. Photo: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg/Getty Images Forget uranium enrichment: Has Iran mastered time…

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ift.tt/2KGcTh6 Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2019 August 17 1901 Photograph: The Orion Nebula…

ift.tt/2TEHZc6 At the beginning of my book Mind-Body Problems, I describe one of my earliest childhood memories: I am walking near a river on a hot summer day. My left hand grips a fishing rod, my right a can…

ift.tt/2yYwdjh Down here; up there: Cleaving the universe in two is as old as civilization. “In the beginning,” begin innumerable creation myths before enumerating what was in the beginning. Those primordial contents are almost always the same across cultures and…

ift.tt/2TzuDxM This essay is an experiment. My hypothesis is that your life will improve if you participate. I assure you, I am not peddling woo. I am not providing you with misinformation and the kind of empty promise that you…

ift.tt/2N60BjL To be or not to be, bravely answered through the lens of could be. “The present is not a potential past; it is the moment of choice and action,” Simone de Beauvoir wrote. At bottom, choice and action always…

ift.tt/2YSW77a “The slow and painful transformation of a passionate and narrowly egotistical being into a man who gives himself over wholly to some great work or other that devours him, destroys him, lives in his blood, is a trial every…

ift.tt/33wnXEZ Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2019 August 13 Supernova Cannon Expels Pulsar J0002…

ift.tt/2N9qhft What’s the matter with Donald and The Trumpeteers? Why won’t they stand up for the American workers and business owners who make their products right here in the Good Ol’ US of A? Read the full commentary here. via…

ift.tt/2N5uD7l “When one is considering the universe, unseen matter, our small backyard of the stuff, I think it is important, sensible even, to try and find some balance between laughter and uncontrollable weeping.” “I’m stricken by the ricochet wonder of…

ift.tt/2yXCcVk This time of year parents are inundated with lists: lists from teachers on the school door, the school supply lists from the district, and the school clothes wishlist from your second-grader (no? Just mine?). Here’s a list that we…

ift.tt/2OI7FFO I’m probably not alone when I say I adore fall. I look forward to this time of year from January onward: the crisp air, the colorful foliage, the warm and cozy knitwear, the even warmer and cozier food. See,…

ift.tt/2YR3K9t Welcome to “More Ketchup, Please,” our newest series that’s spilling the beans on all the different ways we cook for, and with, our kids. We’ve got some great guests stopping by, to get schooled by their little ones on…

ift.tt/2YWjX1f HiPOD 12 August 2019: He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Crater Our objective is to monitor gullies in Heaviside Crater that have had significant seasonal frost activity in previous years. With this image, we can build a frost sequence over time.…