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Anne of Green Gables Summary: Imagination Finds a Home
Oct 27 | Book author: Lucy Maud Montgomery
Anne Shirley arrives by mistake at Green Gables, where Matthew and Marilla wanted a farm boy. Montgomery’s 1908 classic, retold.
The Wind in the Willows Review: A Cozy Classic for All Ages
Oct 25 | Book author: Kenneth Grahame
Our review of Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows: how the 1908 riverside classic began, its two moods, its strengths and who will love it most.
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How Climate Change Affects Children’s Skin Health
Oct 27 | Environment
Children’s skin faces heat, ticks, smoke and floodwater as the climate warms. Here is what the science says, and the simple habits that protect young skin.
Jack-o’-Lantern History: From Carved Turnips to Pumpkins
Oct 27 | Art & Culture
Jack-o’-lantern history begins with marsh lights and an Irish trickster called Stingy Jack, then moves from carved turnips to the pumpkins of North America.
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Anne of Green Gables Summary: Imagination Finds a Home
Oct 27
Anne Shirley arrives by mistake at Green Gables, where Matthew and Marilla wanted a farm boy. Montgomery's 1908 classic, retold.
How Climate Change Affects Children’s Skin Health
Oct 27
Children's skin faces heat, ticks, smoke and floodwater as the climate warms. Here is what the science says, and the simple habits that protect…
Jack-o’-Lantern History: From Carved Turnips to Pumpkins
Oct 27
Jack-o’-lantern history begins with marsh lights and an Irish trickster called Stingy Jack, then moves from carved turnips to the pumpkins of North America.
Fall Back Time Change: How to Keep Your Sleep on Track
Oct 27
The fall back time change gives you an extra hour, but it can still nudge your body clock. Here is what happens to your…
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Anne of Green Gables Summary: Imagination Finds a Home
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The Wind in the Willows Review: A Cozy Classic for All Ages
Oct 25
Our review of Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows: how the 1908 riverside classic began, its two moods, its strengths and who will…
Alice in Wonderland Summary: Carroll’s Mad, Beautiful Classic
Oct 24
Alice follows a waistcoated rabbit down the hole into Wonderland: Carroll’s 1865 classic of tea parties, Cheshire cats and the Queen of Hearts, summarized…
Treasure Island Summary: Stevenson’s Pirates and Buried Gold
Oct 23
Jim Hawkins, Long John Silver, and the hunt for Captain Flint's buried gold: Stevenson's 1883 pirate adventure, summarized.
Moby Dick Summary: The Obsession Behind the Whale
Oct 22
Our Moby Dick summary: Herman Melville’s 1851 whale epic — Ahab’s obsession, the Pequod’s crew, and why the great American novel flopped before it…
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Can Mealworms Change Their Minds? A Tiny Test of Purpose
Oct 25 | Ideas & Opinions
Mealworm larvae learned where food was, then changed course when it turned bitter. Their tiny test suggests flexible thinking in a very small animal.
The Wind in the Willows Review: A Cozy Classic for All Ages
Oct 25 | Book author: Kenneth Grahame
Our review of Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows: how the 1908 riverside classic began, its two moods, its strengths and who will love it most.
Girl with a Pearl Earring: What Science Found Under the Paint
Oct 25 | Art & Culture
A 2018 study of Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring found a hidden green curtain, tiny eyelashes, an illusory pearl and pigments gathered from around the world.
Art & Culture
Art & Culture
The Shanidar Neanderthal: A 75,000-Year-Old Spear Wound
Oct 17
A 75,000-year-old Neanderthal from Shanidar Cave carries a spear wound through the shoulder blade — possibly the oldest wooden-spear kill ever found.
The Shanidar Neanderthal: A 75,000-Year-Old Spear Wound
Oct 17
A 75,000-year-old Neanderthal from Shanidar Cave carries a spear wound through the shoulder blade — possibly the oldest wooden-spear kill ever found.
The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary: A Plant That Grew Sheep
Oct 16
For centuries Europeans debated a plant that grew woolly lambs. Thom Sliwowski traces the Vegetable Lamb of Tartary from Mandeville to fern roots and cotton.
Louis Pope Gratacap and the First T. Rex in Fiction
Oct 15
Museum curator Louis Pope Gratacap’s 1915 lost-world novel The New Northland may be the first fiction to feature Tyrannosaurus — months before the AMNH skeleton debut.
Music Training Changes How the Brain Reads Music
Oct 13
A Hong Kong study finds musicians, learners and non-musicians use different brain-side strategies when reading scores — and formal training is the factor that shifts the balance.
Environment
Environment
Giant Fungus “D-Rex”: New Species from Chinese Forests
Oct 14
A giant fungus nicknamed D-rex has been found in Yunnan, China: at 50 centimetres tall it is the largest fruiting body ever recorded in its phylum – and it belongs to a brand-new family of fungi.
Giant Fungus “D-Rex”: New Species from Chinese Forests
Oct 14
A giant fungus nicknamed D-rex has been found in Yunnan, China: at 50 centimetres tall it is the largest fruiting body ever recorded in its phylum – and it belongs to a brand-new family of fungi.
This Singing Lemur Uses an Opera Singer’s Trick
Oct 5
Madagascar’s indri is the only lemur that sings, and a new study shows it widens its mouth for high notes exactly like a trained soprano.
The Forested Floodplains of Congaree National Park
Oct 4
From space, the meandering Congaree River and its old channels paint the forest in contrasting shades of green. NASA explains how floods sustain giant trees.
Ancient DNA, Modern Bats: The Spotted Bat’s 2,000-Year Story
Oct 8
A bat with polka dots, pink ears and a voice humans can hear. Ancient DNA from a desert cave reveals how the spotted bat survived 2,000 years.
Moon Rocks on Earth: Madagascar’s Anorthosite, Seen From Space
Oct 6
An astronaut photographed a patch of southern Madagascar that looks like the Moon. It is made of the same rock as the lunar highlands.
Ideas & Opinions
Ideas & Opinions
Nobel Prizes Week: This Week in Science (Oct 5-11, 2026)
Oct 11
All three Nobel science prizes, the most distant radio burst ever, Webb’s weather on a failed star, a blood proteome atlas, and the peanut study: the week in science.
Is the Universe Fine-Tuned for Life? A Cup of Water Says Yes
Oct 14
Physicist Kostya Trachenko showed that how runny a liquid can be is set by fundamental constants – adding a second, separate fine-tuning requirement for life beyond the classic stellar one.
Is the Universe Fine-Tuned for Life? A Cup of Water Says Yes
Oct 14
Physicist Kostya Trachenko showed that how runny a liquid can be is set by fundamental constants – adding a second, separate fine-tuning requirement for life beyond the classic stellar one.
Interviews
Interviews
The Train Doodle That Became Wikipedia’s 25th Birthday Mascot
Oct 19
Jonathan Ferreira’s commute doodle became Baby Globe, the official mascot of Wikipedia’s 25th anniversary. Here is how a stylus sketch travelled from a BART train to millions of screens.
Chabacano Poetry: A New Anthology in Asia’s Spanish Creole
Oct 17
Editor Jerome Herrera on Sombra y Luz, a new anthology of Chabacano poetry from Zamboanga, and the debate over how Spanish Asia’s only Spanish-based creole should sound.
The Train Doodle That Became Wikipedia’s 25th Birthday Mascot
Oct 19
Jonathan Ferreira’s commute doodle became Baby Globe, the official mascot of Wikipedia’s 25th anniversary. Here is how a stylus sketch travelled from a BART train to millions of screens.
Lifestyle
Lifestyle
Ten Minutes of Daily Exercise May Unlock Deeper Sleep
Oct 18
You don’t need long workouts to sleep better. A new study suggests that moving a little every day — even ten minutes — is linked to deeper, more restorative sleep.
Cats and Happiness: What a 93-Nation Study Found
Oct 15
A 93-nation study links national cat density to subjective well-being, but the cat parasite Toxoplasma gondii points the other way – and the authors warn against individual-level conclusions.
Ten Minutes of Daily Exercise May Unlock Deeper Sleep
Oct 18
You don’t need long workouts to sleep better. A new study suggests that moving a little every day — even ten minutes — is linked to deeper, more restorative sleep.
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