This Mutant Crayfish Clones Itself, and It’s Taking Over Europe

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/05/science/mutant-crayfish-clones-europe.html

The lawman and the outlaw: How cattle rustling and drugs are roiling rural America

https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2018/0130/The-lawman-and-the-outlaw-How-cattle-rustling-and-drugs-are-roiling-rural-America

How Goodyear Hid Evidence Of 'The Worst Tire Made In History' Linked To At Least 9 Deaths

https://jalopnik.com/how-goodyear-hid-evidence-of-the-worst-tire-made-in-his-1822200424

20 indigenous foods historically and culturally important to North America

https://www.csmonitor.com/Business/The-Bite/20-indigenous-foods-historically-and-culturally-important-to-North-America

Here’s who owns everything in Big Media today

https://www.recode.net/2018/1/23/16905844/media-landscape-verizon-amazon-comcast-disney-fox-relationships-chart

10 Underappreciated Things in the Northwest That Could Kill You

https://www.seattletimes.com/pacific-nw-magazine/10-things-in-the-northwest-that-could-kill-you/

Higher Education Is Drowning in BS

https://www.chronicle.com/article/Higher-Education-Is-Drowning/242195?cid=trend_right_a

For Senegal island's residents, famed slavery heritage site incurs a cost

https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Africa/2018/0116/For-Senegal-island-s-residents-famed-slavery-heritage-site-incurs-a-cost

How robo-callers outwitted the government and completely wrecked the Do Not Call list

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/how-robo-call-moguls-outwitted-the-government-and-completely-wrecked-the-do-not-call-list/2018/01/09/52c769b6-df7a-11e7-bbd0-9dfb2e37492a_story.html

Is There a Downside to Going Gluten-Free if You’re Healthy?

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/12/well/eat/gluten-free-grain-free-diet.html

What Makes a Country Great? Meet Haiti’s People

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/12/opinion/what-makes-a-country-great-meet-haitis-people.html

In the Flu Battle, Hydration and Elevation May Be Your Best Weapons

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/12/well/live/flu-h3n2-virus-care-remedy.html

What did Germans know? Secret anti-Nazi diary gives voice to man on the street

https://www.timesofisrael.com/what-did-germans-know-secret-anti-nazi-diary-gives-voice-to-man-in-the-street/

Park City's White knight feeds both bodies and souls

https://www.deseretnews.com/article/900007022/park-citys-white-knight-feeds-both-bodies-and-souls.html

A Selfie for Your Shelf

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/03/style/doob-action-figure.html

Trashed: Inside the Deadly World of Private Garbage Collection

https://www.propublica.org/article/trashed-inside-the-deadly-world-of-private-garbage-collection

A Dying Town

https://www.chronicle.com/interactives/public-health

17 striking findings from 2017

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/12/26/17-striking-findings-from-2017/

Why Self-Compassion Beats Self-Confidence

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/smarter-living/why-self-compassion-beats-self-confidence.html

Thousands Once Spoke His Language in the Amazon. Now, He’s the Only One

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/26/world/americas/peru-amazon-the-end.html

Should You Shower in the Morning, or at Night? Yes.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/22/well/showering-morning-night.html

Jakarta Is Sinking So Fast, It Could End Up Underwater

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/21/world/asia/jakarta-sinking-climate.html

How to Get Away With Bankruptcy Fraud

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-to-get-away-with-bankruptcy-fraud

Hunger in North Korea Is Devastating. And It’s Our Fault.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/17/opinion/weapons-north-korea-hunger.html

The Best Toys That Teach Kids How to Code

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/19/smarter-living/kids-toys-for-coding.html

The Bomb That Went Off Twice

https://features.propublica.org/bombs-in-our-backyard/military-pollution-rdx-bombs-holston-cornhusker/

A significant portion of the article details the contamination in Mapleton, Utah.

My Year of No Shopping

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/15/opinion/sunday/shopping-consumerism.html

[Venezuela's children are dying]

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/17/world/americas/venezuela-children-starving.html

A Border Wall’s Uncompensated Victims

https://features.propublica.org/eminent-domain-and-the-wall/texas-border-wall-uncompensated-victims/#138247

To Unlock the Brain’s Mysteries, Purée It

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/14/magazine/to-unlock-the-brains-mysteries-puree-it.html

Millions Are Hounded for Debt They Don’t Owe. One Victim Fought Back, With a Vengeance

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-12-06/millions-are-hounded-for-debt-they-don-t-owe-one-victim-fought-back-with-a-vengeance

The Great American Single-Family Home Problem

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/01/business/economy/single-family-home.html

Acting Studios Are Struggling. Does It Matter?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/01/nyregion/acting-studios-are-struggling-does-it-matter.html

New Recognition for Chronic Fatigue

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/27/well/new-recognition-for-chronic-fatigue.html

At Yale, we conducted an experiment to turn conservatives into liberals. The results say a lot about our political divisions.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/inspired-life/wp/2017/11/22/at-yale-we-conducted-an-experiment-to-turn-conservatives-into-liberals-the-results-say-a-lot-about-our-political-divisions/

How to protect against fake ‘facts’

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/getting-back-to-facts/2017/11/23/ebd6a12e-cfb9-11e7-81bc-c55a220c8cbe_story.html

In Chicago, getting past gangs to secure college success

https://www.csmonitor.com/Daily/2017/20171121/In-Chicago-getting-past-gangs-to-secure-college-success

Amongst Bedouins, modern life blunts demand for ancient daggers

https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2017/1120/Amongst-Bedouins-modern-life-blunts-demand-for-ancient-daggers

The Coast Guard’s ‘Floating Guantánamos’

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/20/magazine/the-coast-guards-floating-guantanamos.html

Teaching Newsletter: One Way to Fight Fake News

http://www.chronicle.com/article/One-Way-to-Fight-Fake-News/241726

Chasing a Killer

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/national/health-science/monkeypox/?utm_term=.368c2b303e3c&wpisrc=nl_mustreads&wpmm=1

The Secrets of Resilience

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-secrets-of-resilience-1510329202?mod=e2fb

The Future of Everything

https://graphics.wsj.com/image-grid/future-of-everything/?Paid&nan_pid=1862706739&ad_id=7338851

'Weinstein effect'? Exploring the link between power and predatory behavior.

https://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2017/1030/Weinstein-effect-Exploring-the-link-between-power-and-predatory-behavior?cmpid=FB

The Lost Children of Tuam

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/10/28/world/europe/tuam-ireland-babies-children.html

How to Engage a Fanatic

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/23/opinion/engaging-fanatics.html

A Comedy Show Thrives by Avoiding Vulgarities—Such as the Word ‘Gosh’

https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-comedy-show-thrives-by-avoiding-vulgaritiessuch-as-the-word-gosh-1508342560?shareToken=st79472324f3e24307bff6dbaf5722a9c7&reflink=article_email_share

From ISIS to elephants: the tale of a unique anti-poaching force

https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Africa/2017/1023/From-ISIS-to-elephants-the-tale-of-a-unique-anti-poaching-force

How California’s Most Destructive Wildfire Spread, Hour by Hour

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/10/21/us/california-fire-damage-map.html

Discounts, guarantees and the search for ‘good’ genes: The booming fertility business

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/donor-eggs-sperm-banks-and-the-quest-for-good-genes/2017/10/21/64b9bdd0-aaa6-11e7-b3aa-c0e2e1d41e38_story.html

Harvey Weinstein is also a jerk. That alone should have gotten him fired.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/harvey-weinstein-is-also-a-jerk-that-alone-should-have-gotten-him-fired/2017/10/20/d0aee328-b4d6-11e7-9e58-e6288544af98_story.html

I thought I knew how my family escaped the Holocaust. The truth was hidden in a Dominican town.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/i-thought-i-knew-how-my-family-escaped-the-holocaust-the-truth-was-hidden-in-a-dominican-town/2017/10/16/a1aaff78-8743-11e7-a50f-e0d4e6ec070a_story.html

High Anxiety: How Can We Save Our Students From Themselves?

http://www.chronicle.com/article/High-Anxiety-How-Can-We-Save/241519

An Alternative to Burial and Cremation Gains Popularity

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/19/business/flameless-cremation.html

Ebola’s Legacy: Children With Cataracts

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/19/health/ebola-survivors-cataracts.html

Vikings Razed the Forests. Can Iceland Regrow Them?

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/10/20/climate/iceland-trees-reforestation.html

The Secretive Family Making Billions From the Opioid Crisis

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a12775932/sackler-family-oxycontin/

Free speech at American universities is under threat

https://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21730156-fears-pandemic-snowflakery-are-overwrought-free-speech-american-universities

Ex-Green Beret Nate Boyer writes open letter to Trump, Kaepernick, NFL and America

http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/21003968/nfl-2017-ex-green-beret-nate-boyer-writes-open-letter-president-donald-trump-colin-kaepernick-nfl-united-states-america

The scientists persuading terrorists to spill their secrets

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/oct/13/the-scientists-persuading-terrorists-to-spill-their-secrets

Commit a crime? Your Fitbit, key fob or pacemaker could snitch on you.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/commit-a-crime-your-fitbit-key-fob-or-pacemaker-could-snitch-on-you/2017/10/09/f35a4f30-8f50-11e7-8df5-c2e5cf46c1e2_story.html

How Pet Snakes Set Off an Unlikely Chain of Events That Could Make You Sick

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/10/07/climate/everglades-pythons-mosquitoes.html

Before and After Photos: Fires Tear Through California’s Wine Country

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/10/10/us/california-fires-maps-photos.html

Our economic cannibalism

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/our-economic-cannibalism/2017/10/08/9a7de5a4-aab0-11e7-850e-2bdd1236be5d_story.html

The Confederacy’s ‘Living Monuments’

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/06/opinion/the-confederacys-living-monuments.html

Nothing Divides Voters Like Owning a Gun

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/10/05/upshot/gun-ownership-partisan-divide.html

Why gun experts don’t support banning – or buying – ‘bump stocks’

https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2017/1004/Why-gun-experts-don-t-support-banning-or-buying-bump-stocks

DIY do-gooders direct Caribbean disaster relief efforts

https://www.csmonitor.com/World/2017/1004/DIY-do-gooders-direct-Caribbean-disaster-relief-efforts

The Dogs of the Vietnam War

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/03/opinion/the-dogs-of-the-vietnam-war.html

I used to think gun control was the answer. My research told me otherwise.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/i-used-to-think-gun-control-was-the-answer-my-research-told-me-otherwise/2017/10/03/d33edca6-a851-11e7-92d1-58c702d2d975_story.html

Using outer space to help cool buildings on Earth

https://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/Energy/2017/1002/Using-outer-space-to-help-cool-buildings-on-Earth

‘The Social Contract Is Broken’: Inequality Becomes Deadly in Mexico

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/30/world/americas/mexico-inequality-violence-security.html

How the LDS Church is changing lives in India

https://www.deseretnews.com/article/865689933/How-the-LDS-Church-is-changing-lives-in-India.html

When ‘Not Guilty’ Is a Life Sentence

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/27/magazine/when-not-guilty-is-a-life-sentence.html

How Fake News Turned a Small Town Upside Down

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/26/magazine/how-fake-news-turned-a-small-town-upside-down.html