A true illustration of our place in the universe

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Women developed computer science. Today, the industry is mostly men.

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In a short film, a Columbia University astrophysicist explains the mysterious substance that makes up over 25 percent of the universe.

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“It’s a refuge for the runaway, for the throwaway.”

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With no experience in business, one family opens an organic dining space on their 300-year-old property.

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“I think he is going to be a bad weed in the immigrant community.”

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A short film explores how one woman regards the new administration.

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How and when wild wolves transformed into domestic pets has always been mysterious—until now.

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The short film Noah is one man’s testimony.

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A father-son team is working on a project in the Siberian Arctic called Pleistocene Park, where resurrected woolly mammoths will fight climate change.

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In this animated interview, the sociologist Bruce Western explains the current inevitability of prison for certain demographics of young black men.

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