Charles Digges

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    Your Data’s Strange Undersea Voyage

    The internet is a series of tubes. In the ocean.

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    Digging Into the First Work of Modern Ecology

    What Carl Linneaus can teach us about animal appetites.

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    The Mystery of the Cosmic Radio Globs

    What violent galaxy smashups may have wrought across the universe.

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    Tanning With the Stars

    Since we can’t travel to the stars, this philosophical trickster brings them to us.

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    The Internet Might Be Good for Us

    One study suggests that, on a global scale, it’s associated with greater happiness.

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    How Melting Ice Has Altered Time-Keeping

    Climate change could upend how we synchronize global clocks forever.

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    Viva la Library!

    Rebel against The Algorithm. Get a library card.

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    When Sleep Deprivation Is an Antidepressant

    For some, a night without sleep causes mood-boosting changes in the brain.

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    Digging for Our Origins in the Bone Beds of an African Park

    In their search for the last common ancestor of chimps and humans, scientists at Gorongosa National Park are expanding the picture of early primate life.

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    Elephants Are Total Scaredy-Cats Around Bees

    The buzz on preventing elephants from plundering communities.