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21st century

Faux Paws

From mistaken reports of animals in distress, compiled over the past year by an animal-rescue shelter in Guernsey.

Town Criers

From a village board meeting held in June in Mount Prospect, Illinois. Tykables, a company that serves adult-baby diaper lovers, opened a storefront in the village two months earlier. Arlene…

Glasnost Half Full

From the transcript of a staff meeting at RBC, a media company based in Moscow, in July. An audio recording of the meeting was leaked to Meduza, a Russian-language news…

Ispy

From a list of 4,432 scenes and objects that Apple's Photos app is able to recognize and classify.

Held Back

by Alexandria Neason,

Battling for the fate of a school district

Division Street

by Robert Gumpert, Rebecca Solnit,

Chances are that you are living the good life, at least in the most fundamental sense. You have the liberty to leave your home and the security of a home…

Innocents

by Rachel Nolan,

Where pregnant women have more to fear than Zika

Findings

by Rafil Kroll-Zaidi,

Vanuatu was struck by fatal diarrhea, lumpy skin disease debuted in Albania, camel pox broke out among Israeli and Palestinian dromedaries, and glanders was causing panic sales of studs across…

Oil and Coal Deposits and Reserves, 2010

by Ingo Günther,

I Began the Day

by Renee Gladman,

By Renee Gladman, from Calamities, a collection of linked essays that was published this month by Wave Books. Gladman is the author of eight works of prose, including the novel…

Career High

From testimony given at a grand-jury hearing last year by Sonja Farak, a former chemist at the Massachusetts State Crime Laboratory, in Amherst. In 2014, Farak pleaded guilty to tampering…