Day 22 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar December 22, 2024, 11:06 AM ET ESA / Hubble & NASA, R. Windhorst, W. Keel Day 22 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: the edge of a spiral. Located roughly […]
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Episode 120 (The Prairie Chicken in Wisconsin: Highlights of a Study of Counts, Behavior, Turnover, Movement, and Habitat) The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia, from PRX, a curated network of extraordinary, story-driven shows. Music We move between three
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Singer and actress Whitney Houston sings the National Anthem at the 1991 Tampa, Florida, Superbowl XXV. Houston’s rendition of the National Anthem was particularly inspiring due to the fact that Superbowl XXV (25) was held as the first Gulf War
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Miki Lowe A poem published in The Atlantic in 2011 By Edward Hirsch Illustrations by Miki Lowe December 22, 2024, 12 PM ET Edward Hirsch didn’t always write poetry for a living. He’s been a busboy, a railroad brakeman, a
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On Christmas Eve, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will come closer than ever before to “touching the sun,” getting more than eight times closer than Mercury does to our home star. It will also smash its own speed record, becoming the
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Harlem’s famed streets are rich with stories, many named to honor titans of Black history and civil rights — Frederick Douglass Boulevard, Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, Malcolm X Boulevard. Among those streets sits Marcus Garvey Park, a 20-acre tribute
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The host of the SNL Christmas episode brought his irrepressible dynamism to the set, but other guest celebrities stole the spotlight. Martin Short, center, with the musician Hosier (left) and ‘SNL’ cast member Kenan Thompson (right), was overshadowed by other
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It was middle school, eighth grade, when a sheltered 13-year-old boy suddenly found himself immersed in an unfamiliar world, guided by a girl who wasn’t much older, a girl on the verge of leading a religious movement. At first glance,
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