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What I’d Assign to Today’s College Students
My weekend column used this season of campus protest as an opportunity to discuss the evolution of Columbia’s core curriculum,…
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What Students Read Before They Protest
When I was a college undergraduate 25 years ago, the fancy school that I attended offered what it styled as…
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Her Art Is at Odds With Museums, and Museums Can’t Get Enough
Gala Porras-Kim has confronted the restitution of cultural artifacts and now — with melting Antarctic ice — climate change.
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A Radioactive Sea of Magma Hides Under the Surface of Mars
The discovery helped to show why the red planet’s core is not as large as earlier estimates had suggested it…
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Earth’s Inner Core Paused, Then Reversed Its Spin. This Is Fine.
Researchers proposed a model with a 70-year rotation cycle of our planet’s iron heart, and report that we’re in the…
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Wonking Out: It’s Getting Harder to Be a Pessimist on Inflation
Thursday’s report on consumer prices was really good news. I mean, really, really good news. The overall Consumer Price Index…