Spring/Summer 2016
Features
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A mother’s distress at the sound of her young being threatened—what could be more natural?
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Their story reads like a film treatment: Three college students—all politics junkies—meet through their involvement in campus politics and hit it off.
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Animals use specialized neurons in their brain known as grid cells to keep track of their physical location.
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Peter Decherney recalls the moment when he truly understood the power of media.
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When was the last time you read some Shakespeare on the train, or even saw one of his plays performed?
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To get to the tiny Mexican village of Santa Maria del Mar in Oaxaca—population 800 or 1,500, depending on whom you ask—requires a 45-minute boat ride through always-choppy waters huddled under a tarp in near darkness with two dozen companions.