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Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket Casts It’s conventional wisdom that young people will be more progressive than their forebears. But although young people can often be counted upon to be more comfortable with […]

When you look up in the night sky, our moon is unmissable.Just like Earth, it’s round and has a solid, rocky surface. But is our moon actually a planet? The answer is technically no — at least according to NASA

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

America in the run-up to the Revolutionary War wasn’t just a period of dramatic political change, it was also a time of great religious and social instability, anxiety and experimentation. And in the midst of it all there arose a

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Vanishing Antarctic sea ice could lead to more storms in the Southern Ocean, new research shows. Scientists found that reduced Antarctic sea ice coverage in 2023 caused the ocean to lose extra heat to the atmosphere. That heat loss could

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

In the past few weeks Delhi has become the latest place in India convulsed with religious violence as Hindu mobs burned Muslim neighborhoods, mosques and killed over 40 people. The violence comes in the wake of a new citizenship law

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Stick insects keep evolving to have the same strange body plans over and over again, scientists have discovered. This evolutionary blueprint has enabled researchers to predict the critters’ next developments. Researchers identified just 20 distinct body types that hundreds of