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Over the generations, chickens have become so domesticated that it’s rare to see any living in the wild. [...]

Tucker, Georgia is a city of about 35,000 people located less than a 30-minute drive from Atlanta. It has a [...]

1) “Document: The Symbolism Survey ” (The Paris Review, 10-15 minutes, December 2011). This is [...]

Meditation. Nail biting. Eating a whole pint of Ben and Jerry’s. We have a lot of different ways to manage [...]

Today, throughout the United States, is Election Day. Millions of Americans will take to the polls today to [...]

There’s a Day for everything. March 14th is, of course, Pi Day. On December 13th, we apparently celebrate [...]

1) “My Grandfather Thought He Solved a Cosmic Mystery” (The Atlantic, 18 minutes, November 2018). [...]

In 1984, a guy named Charlie Schmidt took his cat named Fatso, dressed her up in a blue shirt, placed her in [...]

On October 31, 1983, advice columnist Abigail Van Buren—better known as “Dear Abby”—published a [...]

Pictured above is a letter — and it’s a rather generic one at that. It has an address, a return [...]