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A column by Winona LaDuke, an Ojibwe writer and economist on Minnesota’s White Earth Reservation. She also is co-curator of ...

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The X-Men are officially meeting the deadliest aliens in the universe in a crossover that'll make superhero and horror fans ...

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A biologist specializing in invasive species has partnered with a former Pentagon strategist in pushing NASA to construct a ...

A mind wrapped in skin and bone can feel like the obvious model for consciousness. But that assumption may say more about where you live than about what consciousness really requires.