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A massive fire at a chemical plant in rural Texas on Wednesday sent a plume of black smoke into the sky as officials closed down a local highway and ordered residents to take shelter.

Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building, Claire Hughes Johnson (Stripe Press, 2023). This is a bad book. Usually we review books that we like. Sometimes we make an exception and review a book we don't like, but which is nonetheless extremely interesting. Unfortunately, this book isn't interesting either. What it is is important, both for what it tells us about some trends in Silicon Valley…

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A group of scientists from the University of Bath have developed a process for converting turpentine, a paper industry waste product, into chemical precursors used in making pharmaceutical drugs..

Some 70% of the World Heritage-listed Lord Howe Island has been closed to non-essential visitors in response to a recurrence of the plant disease myrtle rust.

Cannabis is a complex mixture of hundreds of chemicals. Here's a look at one of them.

Abortion in early pregnancy was not only commonplace but widely regarded as morally acceptable.

Susan Orlean writes about George Washington Varn II, a Jacksonville, Florida, resident who died in 2021, and whose will stipulated that his beloved mid-century house—designed by the innovative architect Taylor Hardwick—be torn down upon his death.

Meet the Turin artist telling the darkest tales in Venice

Moira Donegan on the books "The Trials of Madame Restell," by Nicholas L. Syrett, and "Madame Restell," by Jennifer Wright, about the titular abortion provider.

Smithsonian curators dig into the collections to find artifacts that illustrate how we arrived at this moment

100 years ago, a white mob razed Rosewood, Florida, to the ground. But Governor Ron DeSantis is pushing restrictions that make it hard to teach about the state's racist history.

You can clean up stains from things like motor oil and get your concrete back to like-new condition.

Debt peonage is often associated with agricultural labor, but in the early twentieth century, Black musicians found themselves trapped in its exploitative cycle.

Generations intertwine and work in harmony as college students, professors and alumni collaborate with basilica parishioners and archabbey monks to restore more than 700 Benedictine crosses in Saint Vincent Cemetery in Unity. The cast iron crosses mark the plots of the hundreds of Benedictine monks who lived in the archabbey

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Most of the big cats at Carole Baskin's Florida animal sanctuary profiled in Netflix's "Tiger King" series will be moving to a sanctuary in Arkansas and Big Cat Rescue's land will eventually be sold.

In February 2023, a 2013 post about the 1921 Tulsa race riots circulated on Facebook.

A wildlife sanctuary in Arkansas is welcoming a new African serval into its facility after rescuing the animal from a live trap in Missouri.

The reality star is the latest to jump on the TikTok trend.