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How the Lobster Broke Out of Prison and Joined Fine Dining

How the Lobster Broke Out of Prison and Joined Fine Dining

The lobster wasn’t always the sought-after delicacy it is today
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Prateek Dasgupta
When Elk Became Wolf-Like Beasts: How Climate and Socio-Politics Changed Ancient Art in Mongolia

When Elk Became Wolf-Like Beasts: How Climate and Socio-Politics Changed Ancient Art in Mongolia

New study reveals how paleoenvironmental changes and sociocultural shifts drove the transformation of naturalistic elk petroglyphs into…
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Sandee Oster
What are choke points, and why should we keep an eye on them?

What are choke points, and why should we keep an eye on them?

How to talk about geopolitics at teatime (and even at dinnertime).
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Martino Sacchi
Gouda’s Misery: When Citizens Became Synonymous With Beggars

Gouda’s Misery: When Citizens Became Synonymous With Beggars

There is more to the history of this Dutch city than those related to an eponymous cheese or the extremely popular stroopwaffel.
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Vickey Maverick
How Did the Pork Taboo Originate?

How Did the Pork Taboo Originate?

Exploring why one-third of humanity doesn’t consume pork
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Prateek Dasgupta
The Forgotten People Who Built the Bamiyan Buddhas

The Forgotten People Who Built the Bamiyan Buddhas

The origins, rise, and fall of the White Huns
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Prateek Dasgupta
On McVeigh’s Trail

On McVeigh’s Trail

The Oklahoma City bombing 30 years later.
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Grady Bolding
Australia on the Ground 2300 BCE

Australia on the Ground 2300 BCE

The Last Volcano and the Oldest Human Story of Cataclysm
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Simon Cameron
The Making of Assam Tea

The Making of Assam Tea

How British botany, Chinese expertise, and Indian labor combined to set up India’s first tea estates
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Rituparna
The Pueblo Revolt of 1680

The Pueblo Revolt of 1680

The First American Revolution
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Jon Hunner in Driven by the Past
In This Town, People Still Live in 9000 Year Old Stone Age Homes

In This Town, People Still Live in 9000 Year Old Stone Age Homes

A remarkable story of continuous inhabitation since Neolithic times in Italy
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Prateek Dasgupta
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