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Annotation

A closer look into the meanings and histories of everyday documents, diagrams, maps, and images.

City in a Forest

The fight over Atlanta’s new police academy

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We Started the Fire

The risks of prescribed burns in a warming climate

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Lone on the Range

Prairie madness on the Great Plains

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Knights-Errant

Online chess reshapes the game of kings

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Come and Get It

A risky invitation to extraterrestrials

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No Pain, No Gain

Pandemic bonds and the privatization of public health

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Lost Cause

How police violence disappears from death certificates

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The Hothouse

Tracking the past and future spread of ragweed allergies

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Your Own Devices

The Right to Repair movement gains ground

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A Firm Hand

McKinsey goes to Rikers Island

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Divine Logic

Kurt Gödel’s last proof

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The Big Frieze

Cartoonist Ben Garrison’s MAGA in winter

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Measureless to Man

The art of mapping the underground

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Negative I.D.

Proving you’re safe to travel

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Shelter in Place

The democratic designs of J.B.S. Haldane

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False Prophets

How to forge a Dead Sea Scroll

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Signs of the Covenant

The old media of the ultra-Orthodox

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Abstract Expression

The former Yugoslavia’s enigmatic memorial architecture

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If I’m to Go

How to fight a deportation

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The Haunted House

What privacy looks like on Google Street View

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The Counter-Monument

Disempowering a memorial to Fascism

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Out of Africa

The legacy of colonialism threatens the future of genetic research

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The Birds

Amazon dreams of a drone-filled sky

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Bite Marks

What a dental x-ray reveals about poverty

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Slash Fictions

A vandalized painting and the legacy of Ivan the Terrible

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Paper Terrorism

Anti-government vigilantes wield a subtle weapon

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Suspicious Minds

Artificial intelligence and the expanding reach of the police

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