Smithsonian Magazine on MSN9d
Four Places to Find Fossilized Shark Teeth in the United States
Sharks have been losing teeth for 400 million years. Here’s a guide to uncovering some of these plentiful fossils across the ...
Revisiting Stephen King’s most underrated novels
In a 2006 interview in The Paris Review, Stephen King revealed that when he began writing, his tendency was to “write in ...
An Insider's View of the Election
Our author visits the political pros in four battleground states and is reminded that the swing vote in the November election is not conservati ...
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From the prairie to 'Pekin’s lady in jade'
Although her real home was on the North Dakota prairie, Helen Burton found a second home in China, surviving the Japanese ...
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Donna Posont Helps Blind People Become Birders—and Whatever Else They Want To Be
The Michigan educator’s long-running program, Birding by Ear and Beyond, fits within a growing movement to make the outdoors ...
Diaries from The One Fly, the Strangest Fishing Contest in America
The Jackson Hole One Fly is one of the hardest and quirkiest fishing tournaments in America. Here's what it's like to fish it ...
Los Angeles Times on MSN10d
Richard Powers’ latest epic: Fragile oceans, fraught tech and exhilarating writing. At first
Both that book and “Playground” are what we might call systems novels, a term coined in 1987 by the critic Tom LeClair ...
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‘We’re not going fast enough’: Sherri Goodman on climate change as security threat
No part of society is accelerating into climate action at the pace of the climate risks that are mounting every day.” ...