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"If global warming's worst predictions come true in 100 years," says Fabio Carrera, "the real issue is preserving Venice as a liveable place—not stopping the occasional tide from coming in."

Venice’s Uncertainty

A new floodgate system should protect the city from high tides—unless climate change interferes

Roald Amundsen and his crew looking at the Norwegian flag at the South Pole, 1911

Antarctica’s Lost & Found Dept.

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Saul Steinberg at Morgan Library

A Space-Time Anomaly of Matter-Energy Reactions

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Planet — well, Forest — of the Apes

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That Seahorse-Shaped Space in Our Brain

IKEA’s $.05 Campaign to Save the Environment

Frank Gehry's Louis Vuitton design

Art in Glass Houses

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Martin Ramirez

Chart showing the increase in autism diagnosis

Aut Couture

Colored Sand and Gunpowder

For The Birds

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Tool Time

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New Book Canvasses Contemporary Artists

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They Came For The Martians, And I Was Silent Because I Was Not A Martian

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Seeds Kept Safe in Arctic Circle Vault

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Vanished Drawings

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The Biggest Guggenheim Ever

Corn is the main feedstock used for producing ethanol fuel in the United States.

Finding Alternatives to Bush’s Alternative Fuels

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Martín Ramírez (1895-1963): Who’s He?

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