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Invisible Kingdom
Deep in the jungles of Cambodia, archaeologists are uncovering a vast and sophisticated metropolis that is 350 years older than Angkor Wat
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Driving While Black
African-Americans used a crowd-sourced guide to navigate segregation
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The Secret Lives of Animals
An innovative photographer reveals what African animals do when they think no one is watching
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Darwin's Favorite Fossils
He never visited the Yale museum, but you can—and see for yourself the specimens that Darwin praised as the best evidence for his theory of evolution
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Welcome to Monkey Town
The nation’s greatest orators clashed in the famed Scopes evolution trial nearly a century ago. Now you can sit in the same courtroom and reach your own verdict
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Dawn of the Dinosaur
In the Arizona desert, you can find remains of the creatures that crawled through the tropics before T. Rex and other fierce giants dominated Earth
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The NASA adviser and author of a new book gives some insight on living beyond the Earth's atmosphere
If Music Be the Food of Questlove
In a new book, the bandleader and hip-hop star stirs up music and cooking
Catching a Wave
Scientists are sitting on top of the world after detecting gravitational waves for the first time. Now what?
Drawing Fire
Fueled by outrage and armed with an artist's pen, journalist and activist Molly Crabapple fights for justice in the Middle East, and closer to home
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