Race to the frozen north

Matthew Henson was simply an ordinary man. That was, until Commander Robert E. Peary entered his life, and offered him a chance at true adventure. Henson would become navigator, craftsman, translator, and right-hand man on a treacherous journey to the North Pole. Defying the odds and the many prejudices that faced him to become a true pioneer. This is his incredible and often untold story…

How to argue with a racist: what our genes do and don't say about human diffe…

Race is not a biological reality. Racism thrives on our not knowing this.

Cheeky Kookaburra

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A brief history of everyone who ever lived: the human story retold through ou…

In our unique genomes, every one of us carries the story of our species—births, deaths, disease, war, famine, migration, and a lot of sex. But those stories have always been locked away—until now. Who are our ancestors? Where did they come from? Geneticists have suddenly become historians, and the hard evidence in our DNA has blown the lid off what we thought we knew. Acclaimed science writ…

Oak has a nightmare

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