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21st century

Findings

Researchers debuted the Geek Culture Engagement Scale, which quantifies participation in such activities as Renaissance faires, screenings of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and B.D.S.M. Female U.S. college students with…

The Great Republican Land Heist

by Christopher Ketcham,

Ammon Bundy takes over a wildlife refuge in Oregon; Christopher Ketcham traces the history of the Bureau of Land Management

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.

Djamel Beghal (detail)

Everything That Rises

by John Crowley,

I have come to perceive a cosmos filled with superintelligent beings — a virtually infinite number of them, whose minds have transcended their earthbound bodies and are independent of any…

If Looks Could Kill

From posts by residents of Oakland, California, to NextDoor and Glenfriends, two online social networks for neighbors.

Foot Patrol

From a complaint filed in October 2014 on behalf of a woman who was harassed by a police officer during a traffic stop in Harris County, Texas. In October 2015,…

Divide and Conquer

From a mathematics textbook for children between six and twelve years old, published by the Islamic State’s ministry of education. The Islamic State distributed copies of the textbook to schools…

What Came Before the Big Bang?

by Alan Lightman,

The physics and metaphysics of the creation of the universe

A Special Relationship

by Andrew Cockburn,

The United States is teaming up with Al Qaeda, again

When I Die

by Brooke Jarvis,

An end-of-life doctor faces his own end