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The First 3-D Printed Rocket Fails Shortly After Launch
Relativity Space, a private company with ambitions for sending people to Mars, made it off the launchpad, but the vehicle…
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Raphael Mechoulam, ‘Father of Cannabis Research,’ Dies at 92
His work helped break down the chemical structures of THC, the psychoactive compound in marijuana, to figure out how cannabis…
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Zoë Chao Identified With ‘Party Down’ a Little Too Well for a While
Starz’s beloved cater-waiter comedy hit awfully close to home when Chao was still hustling to make ends meet at a…
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Review: ‘The Good John Proctor’ Imagines Girlhood BFFs
The play, directed by Caitlin Sullivan at the Connelly Theater, focuses on two girls in the year leading up to…
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Review: In Fosse’s ‘Dancin’,’ a Wiggle Is Worth a Thousand Words
A revival of the 1978 dancical has been substantially revamped to argue for Bob Fosse’s pure dance cred. It’s a…
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On Pets, Moral Logic and Love
In January, I fell in love with someone. It was the last thing I’d expect and caught me completely off…
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Ron DeSantis Has a Secret Theory of Trump
Ron DeSantis has an enemies list, and you can probably guess who’s on it. There’s the “woke dumpster fire” of…
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Tradition, ‘Tradition!’ and the Memory of Topol on the Roof
A few years ago, I bought my father a T-shirt printed with the Yiddish words “Shver tsu zayn a yid”…
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What if Kids Are Sad and Stressed Because Their Parents Are?
There is a depressing familiarity now to the conversations I’m hearing among parents of teenagers. After the obligatory pleasantries, talk…
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My Dangerous, Lonely Life in Myanmar’s Resistance
YANGON, Myanmar — When the military seized power in a coup on the morning of Feb. 1, 2021, I grabbed…
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