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Dimwit’s End

From responses, given by researchers at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, to frequently asked questions submitted to the agency’s Hurricane Research Division.

Women’s Troubles

by Abby Norman,

By Abby Norman, from Ask Me About My Uterus, which was published last month by Nation Books. Norman is an editor at Futurism, a science and technology website.

Search History

by Harper’s Magazine,

A selection of queries submitted by telephone and in person to the New York Public Library’s Reference and Research Services between 1940 and 1989.

This Land is My Land

by Harper’s Magazine,

From accounts of threats made against employees of the U.S. Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management since 2010, published in 2014 by High Country News.

Divide and Conquer

by Harper’s Magazine,

Sample problems from a mathematics textbook for children between six and twelve years old, published by the Islamic State’s ministry of education.

Thanks, Obama

by Harper’s Magazine,

From entries made since 2009 to the U.S. Protocol Gift Unit Federal Register Report, which records items given by foreign dignitaries to federal employees.

Jaded Lady

by Harper’s Magazine,

From headlines that appeared between 1992 and 2014 in the New York Times.

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Dimwit’s End

Women’s Troubles

Search History

This Land is My Land

Divide and Conquer

Thanks, Obama

Jaded Lady

Debug