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An artist’s rendering of the X-37B conducting an aerobraking maneuver using the drag of Earth’s atmosphere, with the bottom of the craft glowing red as it heats up. Boeing Space Recently, the United States Space Force surprised space travel enthusiasts […]

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

SHOW NOTES:   Sources:Nine and a Half Weeks: A Memoir of a Love Affair by Elizabeth McNeill Beauty, Disrupted: The Carre Otis Story, by Carre Otis People Are Talking About: Kim Basinger by David Denby, Vogue, April 1986 Making it Big

There’s a powerful fantasy in American society: the fantasy of the ideal mother. This mother is devoted to her family above all else. She raises the kids, volunteers at the school, cleans the house, plans the birthday parties, cares for

Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States, in 1862. “When the dogmas of a sectional party…threatened to destroy the sovereign rights of the States, six of those States, withdrawing from the Union, confederated together to exercise the right and perform

Prepare for government by meme. Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Jabin Botsford / The Washington Post / Getty; Michael M. Santiago / Getty. November 13, 2024, 12:20 PM ET Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (NOA) using AI narration.

Three new bells arrived for installation at Notre-Dame on November 7. One of the bells had been used for the Summer Olympics in Paris. Chesnot / Getty Images For the first time in more than five years, the sounds of Notre-Dame

For many, curling up on the couch with popcorn and a movie means shutting your brain off to relax after a long day. But unbeknownst to you, two dozen brain networks are lighting up as you watch different types of