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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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Global Poverty Is Falling at Every Line, Not Just One
Oct 24 | Business
Global poverty has fallen at every line since 2000, not just the lowest one. Here is what the latest figures show, and the large job that remains.
Alice in Wonderland Summary: Carroll’s Mad, Beautiful Classic
Oct 24 | Book author: Lewis Carroll
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 in full.
What the 73% Wildlife Decline Number Really Means
Oct 23 | Environment
The 73% wildlife decline headline is widely misunderstood. Here is what the Living Planet Index really measures, and the recovery stories hiding beneath the number.
Art & Culture
Art & Culture
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.
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.
Herculaneum Scrolls: How Lead Ink Could Unlock Buried Texts
Oct 7
Scientists burned replica scrolls to learn how to read the real ones. The trick: lead in ancient ink, revealed by X-ray.
Environment
Environment
El Niño 2026, Explained: Why This One Is Breaking Records
Oct 13
El Niño 2026 has broken daily ocean-temperature records months before its expected peak. Our explainer covers the science, the numbers and what comes next.
El Niño 2026, Explained: Why This One Is Breaking Records
Oct 13
El Niño 2026 has broken daily ocean-temperature records months before its expected peak. Our explainer covers the science, the numbers and what comes next.
Saving the Seas: What Works (and Why it Matters)
Oct 4
From plastic pollution to damaged coral reefs, the ocean is in trouble, but there is hope. A team looked at 217 happy-ending stories from around the world.
Beef Production in Brazil Has Been the Largest Driver of Global Deforestation in Recent Decades
Oct 3
Cattle pastures drove 41% of global deforestation in recent decades, and one-quarter of the total happened to make way for Brazilian beef — mostly eaten in Brazil.
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.
Ideas & Opinions
Ideas & Opinions
Exoplanet Weather: Webb Watches Clouds Shift on a Distant World
Oct 10
Webb watched water clouds thicken and thin on WISE 0855, the coldest known brown dwarf: the first weather report from beyond our solar system.
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.
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.
Interviews
Interviews
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.
Jaume Amigó: Painting Silence as a Form of Resistance
Oct 16
Catalan artist Jaume Amigó explains how memory, Bashō, Japan and Morocco shape his abstract painting — and why silence and beauty can resist a world of brutal images.
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.
Lifestyle
Lifestyle
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.
Big Dogs Age Faster, Explained: The Jumping-Gene Clue
Oct 15
A new Science study of nearly 900 dogs points to ‘jumping genes’ losing their epigenetic control in larger breeds – the first molecular explanation for the dog-aging paradox.
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.
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