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Science · New YorkAs scientists and researchers make sense of some of the major discoveries from the turn of the twenty-first century, “the present moment in the science of cosmology is one of consolidation,” writes the theoretical physicist Sean Carroll in the Review’s August 21, 2025, issue. “Yet crucially important questions remain unanswered,” he continues, “especially about what exactly happened at […]Read Article
Far Out | Sean M. Carroll, Willa Glickman
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Donald Trump · TurnberryOn July 26 Donald Trump played a round of golf at his own Turnberry course in Scotland. Over footage of the event from Sky News, we hear a reporter shouting, “Mr. Trump, can you escape the Jeffrey Epstein crisis?” At that point in the clip, the volume surges on the song Trump’s large entourage is […]Read Article
‘A Guy Who Never Dies’ | Fintan O’Toole
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New York City · New YorkIn the summer of 1957 a young woman named Shirley Kubik got a job attending to passengers on Trans World Airlines. After the company determined that she met its strict physical and lifestyle requirements—clear skin, aged twenty to twenty-seven, between 100 and 135 pounds, between five-foot-two and five-foot-eight, good vision, unwed—she was outfitted with a […]Read Article
‘A Moment of Pleasant Indecision’
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