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ByKristin Romey Published September 30, 2022 • 20 min read This past Labor Day, as beachgoers up and down the eastern seaboard of the U.S. enjoyed a sunny holiday at the shore, Erik Petkovic was in the darkened cabin of R/V Explorer some 40 miles off the Virginia coast. Peering into a video monitor linked to a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) some 400 feet below, he suddenly exclaimed, “That’s it! There it is!” The object that caused his excitement was the wreckage of SM U-111, the last World War I-era German submarine to be discovered in U.S. waters. The sleek … Read more

Magazine Innovator Through genomic studies, Keolu Fox spearheads the search for clues to new medicines, better health care, and even land reclamation. ByBijal P. Trivedi Published September 29, 2022 • 2 min read When a graduate school professor told Native Hawaiian Keolu Fox that studying the genetics and genomics of Indigenous peoples was “career suicide,” Fox vowed that all his projects would prioritize the health of minorities. Fox followed through on that commitment after learning that most genetic studies and clinical trials are based on people of European ancestry—a bias that could result in unsafe or useless treatments for people … Read more

Animals Wildlife Watch In the last six months, three dolphins have died in The Mirage’s animal exhibit—which is now temporarily shuttered. ByDina Fine Maron Published September 29, 2022 • 7 min read K2 was fun to be around. The bottlenose dolphin was an energetic 11-year-old, a young adult in dolphin years, who was born at The Mirage casino on the Las Vegas strip and lived his entire life there. Visitors sometimes paid as much as $450 to have brief in-water interactions with him and other bottlenose dolphins. His handlers said he was often vocal and made people smile. But earlier this … Read more

ByMaría José Noain Published September 29, 2022 • 12 min read For many centuries, beliefs about the roles of girls and women in ancient Greece centered around how limited and hidden their lives were. Women were kept out of the public sphere, denied citizenship, and held no legal or political standing. Excluded from the polis, women were relegated to the oikos, or household, as wives, mothers, and daughters. Much of this notion originated in written sources from classical Greece. Xenophon, Plato, and Thucydides all testified to the so-called inferiority of women to men. Writing in the fourth century B.C., Aristotle … Read more

Travel From chiseling perfect spheres to dealing with nesting falcons, a stonemason’s work is far from one dimensional. ByRachael Rowe Published September 29, 2022 • 11 min read When the work of a stonemason goes unnoticed, it’s a noteworthy accomplishment. Such is the paradoxical calling of stonemasonry, a fading craft that was not only essential in the rise of global architecture, but also one that remains crucial to the preservation of countless sacred and iconic sites. Over the centuries, even the most solid stone crumbles. England is home to innumerable historic sites always in need of assessment and maintenance, from … Read more