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The tale of Medusa from Greek mythology generally depicts her as a fearsome snake-headed gorgon who certainly merits no sympathy. But this poignant and tragic retelling and origin story offers a radically different perspective. Gray’s reimagining tells how Medusa was turned into a monster from her point of view, focusing on the exploitation of girls and women, and ho...

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Kenneth Clark, developer of “the doll test,” was a psychologist, educator, and social reformer dedicated to the cause of racial justice. In 1940, Clark became the first African American to receive a doctorate in psychology from Columbia University. Two ...

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Martha Wells has won Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards for her science fiction, but she is also a talented fantasy writer, creating complex and inventive worlds with memorable protagonists.

This is the second book in her “Rising World” fantasy series that began with Witch King. It picks up without a bit of explanation, so it is essential to read the previous book...

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This true story relates how, in 2014, a Belgian freediver (i.e., one who dives without the benefit of oxygen) was able to swim with a sperm whale pod right after the birth of a calf.

As Fred Buyle (the diver, who was accompanied by Kurt Amsler wh...

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This is the second book of a detective series featuring Helgi Reykdal, a young police detective working in Reykjavik and an aficionado of mysteries from the Golden Age of detective fiction. His boss Magnús at the Reykjavik CID knew of Helgi’s love of classic murder mystery novels, and thus called Helgi about a new case even though Helgi was still on a break. It seemed that a ...

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