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The Digital Voyage It’s Time to Break Up the Apple App Store Apple's stranglehold on the App Store is problematic. Our technology columnist explains why. Quick Question Do Airplanes Really Make You Sick? A Curious Reader asks: Am I really at a higher risk of getting sick on an airplane? Lingua Obscura Are We Being Framed? How the linguistic trick of framing shapes meaning--and can lead to deception. Suggested Readings Inception Machines, Weird Ice, and a Post-Roe World Well-researched stories from Quanta, Wired, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship. Most Recent Business & Economics What Is a Tariff? An Economist Explains A global trade war seems well underway as China and the U.S. exchange targeted tariff attacks. An economist explains what they are. Politics & History Colonialism Created Navy Blue The indigo dye that created the Royal Navy's signature uniform color was only possible because of imperialism and slavery. Plants & Animals The Hidden Extinction Crisis The extinction crisis might be even worse than we think, because we tend to mostly pay attention to terrestrial vertebrates. Education & Society When Adventists and Mormons Turned Sex-Positive How the once sex-averse Church of Latter-Day Saints and Seventh Day Adventism embraced (married, monogamous) sex as a positive ideal. More Stories Join Our Newsletter Get your fix of JSTOR Daily’s best stories in your inbox each Thursday. Privacy Policy Contact Us You may unsubscribe at any time by clicking on the provided link on any marketing message. Trending Mathematics The Quantum Random Number Generator It’s real. And it will use quantum entanglement to generate true mathematical randomness. Here’s why that matters. Arts & Culture Think Again Rereading W.H. Auden, George Orwell, and James Baldwin in times of crisis. Arts & Culture The Font Detectives For typography experts like Thomas Phinney, the history of the printed word is crucial to weeding out fraud. Long Reads Business & Economics What Is a Tariff? An Economist Explains A global trade war seems well underway as China and the U.S. exchange targeted tariff attacks. An economist explains what they are. Science & Technology Chinese Peasants Taught the USDA to Farm Organically in 1909 A hundred years later, we are still learning. Arts & Culture The Font Detectives For typography experts like Thomas Phinney, the history of the printed word is crucial to weeding out fraud. Art & Art History The Delicate Science-Art of the Blaschka Invertebrate Collection The Cornell Collection of Blaschka Invertebrate Models includes hundreds of glass models of sea creatures, making it both a teaching tool and a metaphor. Editors' Picks Education & Society How Barbecue Defined America The barbecue boom in 1950s American was tied to nationalistic concepts of the "perfect family": patriarchal, suburban, and white. Education & Society Why Our Work Affects How Kids Play The way we think about the skills kids need—and even how they should play—is deeply tied to the characteristics we expect them to need as adults. Business & Economics Will We Always Have the Poor Among Us? To end poverty, public policy must provide much more than economic resources Science & Technology Who Chooses Not to Vaccinate Their Children? Vaccinations have always been political. But in this day and age, why do certain subsets of well-off parents choose not to vaccinate their children? Science & Technology Shark Attacks: A History of Hype A history of shark attacks and public response to them. Arts & Culture The Life of Forgotten Poet Letitia Elizabeth Landon She was known as the "female Byron." So why doesn't anyone read L.E.L. anymore? Think Again Rereading W.H. Auden, George Orwell, and James Baldwin in times of crisis. Frank Capra’s Not-So-Sunny Vision of American Life Capra's films are known for being upbeat and sometimes cheesy, but beneath the surface are rather dark stories of American corruption. Columns These Gravity-Defying Sculptures Provoked Accusations of Demonic Possession Demons and artists, it seems, pull from the same bag of tricks. They take ordinary matter and transform it into something more wondrous, more terrifying. Why Did the Victorians Harbor Warm Feelings for Leeches? Medical authorities wrote about leeches as if they sucked blood out of the goodness of their hearts. The 4 Questions to Ask before You Unplug If you're concerned about the internet's effects on the world and on yourself, unplugging might not be the answer. Barbecue fit in with the Cold War-era emphasis on consumerism, particularly home ownership. How Barbecue Defined America Politics & Government When Did We Start Paying to Park Our Cars? A Curious Reader asks: When and why did parking become monetized? Turkey’s “Outsider” Threats Ever since it was founded as a republic in 1923, Turkey has struggled with its so-called Kurdish issue. Sudan’s Revolution and the Geopolitics of Human Rights Sudan's former president Omar al-Bashir was indicted by the International Criminal Court on charges of war crimes and genocide. Why isn't he on trial? Sustainability & The Environment Chinese Peasants Taught the USDA to Farm Organically in 1909 A hundred years later, we are still learning. How Trees Can Save Lakes From Algae Blooms In addition to cleaning air pollution, trees absorb excess nutrients from soil, preventing algae blooms in waterways. How to Clean Up After a Nuclear Disaster Workers are still cleaning up after the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant partial meltdown. There's a lot of contaminated material to contend with. Education Are Students Just Telling Us What We Want to Hear? Students tend to fill out end-of-year evaluations so as to describe a “narrative of progress.” For teachers, this is fast food of the mind. The 1910 Report That Disadvantaged Minority Doctors A century ago, the Flexner Report led to the closure of 75% of U.S. medical schools. It still explains a lot about today’s unequal access to healthcare. How to Teach with JSTOR Text Analyzer JSTOR Text Analyzer provides students with an additional resource for finding scholarly material. Join Our Newsletter Get your fix of JSTOR Daily’s best stories in your inbox each Thursday. Privacy Policy Contact Us You may unsubscribe at any time by clicking on the provided link on any marketing message.
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