The Sixth Extinction
Field reporting and deep history brought together to show extinction as both scientific pattern and present-tense event.
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Science & Discovery
Read across foundational science, contemporary reporting and the human choices that shape discovery. This hub connects observation in the field with the institutions, tools and stories through which knowledge travels.
Questions to carry
Read with a live question.
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What counts as convincing evidence?
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How does a discovery move from one person to a public fact?
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What responsibilities arrive with new knowledge?
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Contemporary guides
Original Linden maps for deciding how—and whether—to read important recent nonfiction.
The Code Breaker
A biography of scientific collaboration that opens into the promises and governance problems of gene editing.
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Essays that bring botanical knowledge, Indigenous teaching and the practice of reciprocity into one sustained conversation.
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Classic texts in the conversation
Public-domain works that reveal earlier arguments, methods and social conditions.
On the Origin of Species
Charles Darwin
Science & Technology · B2–C1 · 17 hr0% read
The Voyage of the Beagle
Charles Darwin
Travel & Nature · B2–C1 · 14 hr0% read
The Island of Doctor Moreau
H. G. Wells
Science Fiction · B1–B2 · 4 hr · Guide0% read
The Time Machine
H. G. Wells
Science Fiction · B1–B2 · 3 hr · Guide0% read
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