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Books for Teenage Girls With Heroines Worth Copying

Ten novels and one memoir with girls at the center who are brave, stubborn, and good — plus what's in each one you should know about first.

GuideScience & SpaceWes DunbarSep 23, 20266 min

How Weather Forecasts Are Made and When to Stop Trusting Them

Balloons, supercomputers, and chaos theory go into the number on your phone. Knowing where the skill runs out is the useful part.

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StoryHistoryWes DunbarSep 23, 20267 min

The Cowboy Was Real For About Twenty Years

Thirty dollars a month, eighteen-hour days, and a job most men quit by thirty. The record is harder and better than the movies.

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Biographies Good Enough to Keep You Up Past Midnight

Eight lives worth reading, ranked by how fast they hook you, plus the honest warning about which ones need a thousand pages to get going.

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GuideScience & SpaceDean ShawSep 23, 20266 min

Why Your Blue Dot Jumps Downtown

Atomic clocks 12,550 miles up, a database of Wi-Fi router names, and a guess about your walking speed. That's your location.

StoryHistoryMarcus ValeSep 23, 20267 min

Frozen Chosin and the War America Agreed to Forget

Five months after a beaten battalion tried to stop tanks with bad rockets, 30,000 men walked out of a Korean valley at 30 below. Most of them made it.

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GuideBooksMarcus ValeSep 23, 20265 min

How to Finish a Book Again

You don't need more discipline. You need a shorter book, a worse chair for your phone, and permission to quit the ones that bore you.

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Is your money actually in order?

Six questions. No email required, no sales pitch at the end.

GuideScience & SpaceDean ShawSep 23, 20266 min

Why Airplanes Fly and Why Turbulence Won't Break One

The wing throws air downward, the air pushes back, and the bumps that terrify you're nowhere near what the structure was built to shrug off.

StoryHistoryDean ShawSep 23, 20266 min

The Men Who Built Your Ordinary Tuesday

Edison sold a system, not a bulb. Ford sold a price, not a car. Both changed how Americans live, and both left a record worth reading whole.

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GuideBooksWes DunbarSep 23, 20266 min

The Westerns Worth Reading When It Gets Dark at Five

Nine frontier novels that actually hold up, what's in them, and which ones you can hand to a twelve-year-old.

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GuideScience & SpaceDean ShawSep 23, 20266 min

Most of the Seafloor Has Never Been Properly Mapped

Pressure at the bottom of the Challenger Deep runs about eight tons per square inch, and that's the easy part to explain.

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GuideHistorySam OrtizSep 23, 20266 min

How to Find Your Ancestors Without Paying for It

A burned warehouse in St. Louis, the 1950 census, and the county courthouse that still has your great-grandfather's signature on file.

GuideBooksNina CastellanSep 23, 20265 min

How to Start a Book Club That Survives Past March

Most groups die in month four from drift, not conflict. Lock the date, pick a short first book, and put one person in charge.

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StoryScience & SpaceDean ShawSep 23, 20266 min

How the Hoover Dam Actually Holds Back Lake Mead

582 miles of pipe buried in concrete, four tunnels blasted through a canyon wall, and a wedge of rock-hard math that hasn't budged since 1936.

Quiz

Does your wardrobe actually fit you?

Five questions, honestly answered, and a plan for the next two weeks.

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Easy Company From Currahee to the Eagle's Nest

Books6 min

Eight History Books That Read Like Thrillers

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GuideScience & SpaceSam OrtizSep 23, 20266 min

Five Saturday Science Projects That Actually Teach Something

The baking soda volcano is a dud. These five take an afternoon, cost almost nothing, and give your kids something they can change and test again.

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The Ten-Dollar Runaway and Other Presidents Who Had Nothing

A pawned watch, a canal-boat mule driver, and a tailor's apprentice with a bounty on his head. The log cabin story is a campaign prop, except when it isn't.

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How many days a week are you actually training?

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