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  • Turn Down the Streetlights

    What Seattle’s dark streets tell us about crime

    Eric SciglianoSeptember 1, 2024
    Spotlight illuminating thief
  • How the World Became Awash in Synthetics

    It started in 1934, with a PR crisis.

    Mariah BlakeMay 5, 2025
    A toy globe inside a plastic shrink wrap bag on a gray floor
  • Are Antibiotics Making People Larger?

    Overuse of the drugs seems to make us gain weight—even when we don't take them.

    James HamblinDecember 21, 2015
  • How Now World's Greatest Cow?
    Paul O’NeilSeptember 1973 Issue
  • Journey
    Erica FunkhouserNovember 1, 2003
  • Cock Fighting
    Matthew YglesiasJuly 6, 2008
  • The Push to Regulate Animal Antibiotics (With Footage From a House Hearing)
    Daniel FromsonJuly 19, 2010
  • Meet the Zedonk, the Zebra-Donkey Hybrid
    Alexis C. MadrigalJuly 29, 2010
  • The Plague Dogs
    April 1978 Issue
  • The Hidden Life of Dogs
    Phoebe-Lou AdamsSeptember 1993 Issue
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