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LORRAINE BOISSONEAULT

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  • A First Nation, a Fight for Ancestral Lands, And an Unlikely Alliance, Atlas Obscura

    A New Genetic Study Suggests Modern Flores Island Pygmies and Ancient Hobbits Are Unrelated, Smithsonian Magazine

    A Search for a Lost Hammer Led to the Largest Cache of Roman Treasure Ever Found in Britain, Smithsonian Magazine

    Ancient Proteins from Unwashed Dishes Reveal the Diet of a Lost Civilization, Smithsonian Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine

    Are Humans to Blame for the Disappearance of Earth's Fantastic Beasts?, Smithsonian Magazine

    Did Early Humans in India Survive a Supervolcano?, National Geographic

    Fossil Finds: Fleshy Quarry Fossils Shed Light on Wisconsin’s Watery Past, Great Lakes Now

    How Ancient Teeth Reveal the Roots of Humankind, The Smithsonian

    How the Remnants of Human Poop Could Help Archaeologists Study Ancient Populations, Smithsonian Magazine

    Laos' Perplexing Plain of Jars, JSTOR Daily

    Museums Once Coated Native Cultural Objects in Toxic Pesticides, Atlas Obscura

    Not All Who Wander Are Lost: The Many Lessons Nomads Can Teach Settled Society, Templeton

    Of Monuments and Men: Exploring the 11,500 year old world of Göbekli Tepe, Templeton

    Prehistoric Pointillism? Long Before Seurat, Ancient Artists Chiseled Mammoths Out of Dots, Smithsonian Magazine

    The Bones of Australia's Lake Mungo, JSTOR Daily

    The Medieval Practices That Reshaped Europe's Fish, The Atlantic

    This Centuries-Old Geoduck Shell May Rewrite the Rules About Who Can Harvest the Fancy Clam, Smithsonian Magazine

    What Really Turned the Sahara Desert From a Green Oasis Into a Wasteland?, Smithsonian Magazine

  • Bringing Back Milwaukee's Swamps: Part One and Part Two, Great Lakes Now

    Could a Gene Bank Save Endangered Plants from Extinction?, Atlas Obscura

    Even with DNA Detection, Asian Carp Continue to Evade Scientists, Undark

    Extinction or Evolution? The Answer Isn't Always Clear, Smithsonian Magazine

    France’s Deadly Seaweed, Hakai Magazine

    Genetic Mystery: The all-female salamanders of the Great Lakes, Great Lakes Now

    Is the Mysterious Sea Cucumber Slipping Out of Our Grasp?, Smithsonian Magazine

    Lugworm Blood, Coming Soon to a Pharmacy Near You, Hakai Magazine

    Mussel-Phosphorus Puzzle: Invasive mussels are reshaping the chemistry of the Great Lakes, Great Lakes Now

    The Call of the Wild: Using Sound to Help Imperiled Species and Ecosystems, The Revelator

    Therapies for Some of the World's Deadliest Diseases Might Be at the Bottom of the Sea, The Elemental

  • Are Blade Runner’s Replicants “Human”? Descartes and Locke Have Some Thoughts, Smithsonian Magazine

    Drafting a Personal Essay Is Like Stumbling Through a Dance, Catapult

    Finding a Face for My Invisible Illness, Catapult

    Hayao Miyazaki’s Characters Help Me Grieve My Chronic Illness, Catapult

    Learning to Live With a Broken Heartbeat, The New Yorker

    One Story, Two Tellers, Literacy Hub

    When Doctors Don't Believe Female Patients, Salon

    Where I go: The Chicago Swordplay Guild, Zocalo Public Square

  • Canadian Native Groups Vow to Fight on for Land Rights, Passblue

    Children Trapped in Syria Suffering from the War, Passblue

    Is China Committing Genocide Against the Uyghurs?, The Smithsonian Magazine

    Life for Women and Girls in Afghanistan Grows Deadlier, Passblue

    The Surprising Ways Chinese Citizens Respond to National Problems, Colgate Research

    When a Country is Not a Country, The Morning News

  • Can Near-Death Experiences Help Us Lead Better Lives?, John Templeton Foundation

    Long Covid Could Change The Way Researchers Study Chronic Illness, The Washington Post

    The Science of Immortality: Part I, Part II, Part III, John Templeton Foundation

    The Victorian Woman Writer Who Refused to Let Doctors Define Her, Smithsonian Magazine

  • How Humble Moss Healed the Wounds of Thousands in WWI, Smithsonian Magazine

    How the 19th Century Know-Nothing Party Reshaped American Politics, Smithsonian Magazine

    In 1968, Three Students Were Killed by Police. Today, Few Remember the Orangeburg Massacre, Smithsonian Magazine

    On Evil May Day, Londoners Rioted Over Foreigners Stealing Their Jobs, Smithsonian Magazine

    The Coal Mining Massacre America Forgot, Smithsonian Magazine

    The Cuyahoga River Caught Fire at Least a Dozen Times, but No One Cared Until 1969, Smithsonian Magazine

    The First Moments of Hitler's Final Solution, Smithsonian Magazine

    The Myth of Professional Beggars Spawned Today's Enduring Stereotypes, Smithsonian Magazine

    There Was Never a Real "Tulip Fever", Smithsonian Magazine

    What Will Happen to Stone Mountain, America’s Largest Confederate Memorial?, Smithsonian Magazine

    When the Beast of Gévaudan Terrorized France, Smithsonian Magazine

  • Save The Words: The fight to keep indigenous languages alive, through speaking, software, and day care, The Believer

    The Complicated Decisions That Come With Digitizing Indigenous Languages, Slate

  • A Brief History of the GIF, Smithsonian Magazine

    How 18th Century Writers Shaped the Genre of Popular Science, Smithsonian Magazine

    The Art of Skeleton Articulation, Smithsonian Magazine

    The Secret Lives of Cannibal Stars, Smithsonian Magazine

  • Acceptable Forms of Agony, Catapult Magazine

    Field Notes from the Pleistocene, Origins Mission

  • L'Anse aux Meadows and the Viking Discovery of North America, JSTOR Daily

    The End of the Tour: Why Do We Travel?, JSTOR Daily

    The Golden Age of Timbuktu, JSTOR Daily

    The World's Oldest Library, Founded by a Woman and Restored by One, Literary Hub

    Three Explorers Who Disappeared Without a Trace, JSTOR Daily

    Three Women Explorers You Should Know, JSTOR Daily

    UK Teen Wins Mongol Derby, Weather.com

    Whatever Floats Their Boat, Narratively