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“When I’d stopped calling home. I’d wanted — we’d wanted — to end aging. To cure it, like a disease.”
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Wellness Escapes: Amazing Hiking Destinations to Boost Your Health
Looking for the latest wellness trend to boost your health and fitness? Forget expensive spa treatments and extreme juice diets — the best thing you can do for your health today is to get out into nature and onto the trail! In recent years, hiking has received a great deal of attention as a result […]
Your Neighbors Can Help You Battle Adversity and Disaster
History suggests if we want to begin to repair the social fabric, a good place to start is our own neighborhoods.
The Midwest Salutes a Hero: The Celebration of Stan Musial’s 3,000th Hit
Lee Lowenfish tells the story of baseball legend Stan Musial’s legendary 3,000th hit.
Considering History: The Lessons of Memorial Day’s Decoration Day Origins
The origins of Memorial Day illustrate some of the worst and the best of Reconstruction, race, and American history and identity.
Mount St. Helens: The Day the Earth Caught Fire
Forty years ago, Mount St. Helens exploded, sending a massive blast of lava, snow, ice, and rock outward at hundreds of miles per hour. How prepared are we for future volcanoes in America’s Northwest?
Songs of America: Patriotism, Protest, and the Music That Made a Nation
The soundtrack of our nation’s history calls us to action and to remembrance.
A Pilgrim’s Push
It was a place one came home to die, wonderful source, feral and wild, like the victimless dingoes and brambies, wild horses with everywhere to roam and nowhere to stay lost.
News of the Week: Quarantine Reading, Dum Dums, and Why You Should Put Peanut Butter on a Burger
In the news for the week ending May 8, 2020, are all the burgers you can eat, all the books you can read, a helicopter on Mars, and much more.
The Star
Unintentionally and without his being fully aware of it, Ellert had come to represent the last gasp of a dying breed.
News of the Week: Virtual Proms, a Space Debate, and the 10 Most Popular Things to Cook Right Now
In the news for week ending on the first day of May 2020 are social distancing tips from outer space, a hands-free Oreo dispenser, too many potatoes, our favorite things to (try to) cook, and more.
The 12 Most Mysterious Disappearances
Hundreds of thousands of Americans go missing every year. Here are some of the cases that continue to capture attention, and some that remain unsolved.
BUSINESS AS USUAL…SORT OF.
Nobody can deny March has been interesting to say the least. As we work from our kitchens, home offices and living rooms, trying to keep business as usual has been challenging. However, at Curtis, we are keeping our spirits high and our attitudes positive. We are fortunate that our whole team is able to […]
How a Dying River Came Roaring Back to Life
Since the removal of two dams on the Elwha River in the Pacific Northwest, salmon are spawning once again, animals large and small are returning to the river banks, and hundreds of acres of barren former lakebed are greening.
Does the 1918 Pandemic Tell Us What Comes Next?
Taking a look at the health and economic impact of the 1918 influenza pandemic may give us some insight into what to expect in the aftermath of COVID-19.
Can Our Common Humanity Unite Us?
Despite our differences — of race, religion, social class, gender — we each carry within us an evolutionary blueprint for making a good society.