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Around the World in Explorer Names
The American Geographical Society has long invited big-name adventurers—Amelia Earhart, Neil Armstrong—to sign its ceremonial globe. The latest? Astronaut Kathryn…
The First Candid
In 1838, Louis Daguerre snapped a photo of a Parisian street, empty but for a shoeshine boy and his client.…
Kramer and Fauci—Enemies to Friends to Protagonists
The playwright and the immunologist famously argued about AIDs live on C-SPAN, in 1993. Their heated exchange now unfolds in…
Deana Lawson’s Subjects of Surveillance
In “Edge Control,” a new series featuring security-camera stills of suspected shoplifters, the photographer seems more interested in the surface…
How Tree Rings Challenged the Myth of American Wilderness
By studying fire scars in ancient wood, many scientists have become convinced that Indigenous people transformed North America long before…
Hollywood’s Tech-Founder Fixation Takes a Dark Turn
Brady Brickner-Wood writes about tech-founder bio-pics and what the genre reveals about our cultural understanding of such figures.
How a Canadian TV Show May Have Helped Foil the FlyDubai Terrorist Attack
Sudarsan Raghavan on how the documentary series “Air Crash Investigations” played a part in helping a passenger, Yaniv Hayun, divert…
My Education on the Border of the Syrian War
In the last Turkish town on the road to Aleppo, jihadis and spies mixed with reporters trying to prove themselves,…
An Ever-Changing Supper Club Rises Uptown
Helen Rosner writes about Lana Lagomarsini’s supper club, Creola, on the Upper East Side, where the chef’s French-informed technique explores…