This Procedure May Improve Your Brain — and Uncover the Real You Transcranial direct-current stimulation delivers a small jolt of electricity to the brain but may have a significant impact on how we learn, recover from illness and combat mental illness. Will it also change our personalities? Read More…
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Sia’s “Chandelier” is one of the biggest songs in recent memory. In its official music video, an 11 year-old creative genius to dances her face off. Today, we have an even more impressive performance… from a two year-old girl. Yes, you read that right. Her choreographed moves are wayyyyyy better than anything I could do. I’m totally jealous of her…
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Fractured Lands: How the Arab World Came Apart The story of more than a decade of war, terror and revolution in the Middle East, seen through the eyes of six people whose lives were changed forever. Read More…
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The Lessons of Anwar al-Awlaki Four years after the United States assassinated the radical cleric in a drone strike, his influence on jihadists is greater than ever. Was there a better way to stop him? Read More…
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The Aspiring Novelist Who Became Obama’s Foreign-Policy Guru How Ben Rhodes rewrote the rules of diplomacy for the digital age. Read More…
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25 Songs That Tell Us Where Music Is Going A playlist by the writers Marlon James, Jenna Wortham, George Saunders, Wesley Morris, Mary H. K. Choi and others. Read More…
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Transcript of the Democratic Presidential Debate Following is a transcript of the Democratic debate, as transcribed by the Federal News Service. Read More…
Read more500 Prompts for Narrative and Personal Writing Here are 500 student opinion questions that invite narrative and personal writing, all together in one place. Read More…
Read moreSwim. Bike. Cheat? Julie Miller, an age-group champion at the 2015 Ironman Canada, was disqualified after detective work by athletes who believed she had cut the course there and at other races. Read More…
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