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21st century

Beyond the Broken Window

William Bratton and the new police state

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In Search of a Stolen Fiddle

From the pawnshops of Portland to the con men of Craigslist

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Displaced in the D.R.

A country strips 210,000 of citizenship

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The Day of the Knotweed

Battling Britain’s most destructive invasive plant

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Findings

Psychologists warned against treating autism with antifungals, antivirals, bleach enemas, camel’s milk, chelation, chiropractic, craniosacral therapy, dolphins, extended breast-feeding, Floortime, gluten- and casein-free diets, horses, hyperbaric oxygen, hypnotherapy, magnetic shoe…

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The Quietest Place in the Universe

Digging for dark matter in an abandoned mine

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The Joke

By Justin E. H. Smith, from “The Fundamentals of Gelastics,” a work in progress. Smith’s latest book, Nature, Human Nature, and Human Difference (Princeton), will be published in June. In…

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For the Longest Time

From entries in the India Book of Records, founded in 2004 by Biswaroop Roy Chowdhury, who holds the Guinness world record for constructing the largest screwdriver.

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