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IN THIS ISSUE
REPORTING

Electrified
Annals of the Mind

“What does this part of the brain do, again?” I asked, pointing to the electrode on my right temple. “That’s the right inferior frontal cortex,” said Vince Clark, the director of the University of New Mexico Psychology Clinical Neuroscience Center, in Albuquerque. “It…


The Nerd Hunter
Onward and Upward with the Arts

The first scene of “Other Space,” a new sci-fi sitcom by Paul Feig, which streams on Yahoo on April 14th, begins with one of the show’s central characters, a hapless spaceship captain named Stewart Lipinski, navigating the ship through an asteroid shower while eating a hot …


Born Red
Profiles

In anticipation of New Year’s Eve, 2014, Xi Jinping, the President of China and the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, permitted a camera crew to come into his office and record a message to the people. As a teen-ager, Xi had been sent to work on a farm; he was so…


Carbon Capture
Dept. of the Environment

Last September, as someone who cares more about birds than the next man, I was following the story of the new stadium that the Twin Cities are building for their football Vikings. The stadium’s glass walls were expected to kill thousands of birds every year, and local bird-lovers…