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Disgust, Desire, and Durian
JSTOR Daily - Sean Wang Zi-Ming
How Southeast Asia’s famously pungent fruit became a source of cultural identity and global demand. In 2019, 550 students evacuated the University of …
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Can We Recover a Worldview Lost to Colonialism?
JSTOR Daily - Livia Gershon
Among the Ao Naga of northeast India, humans may have been just one kind of person in a world filled with spiritual beings. How did people see the …
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Beware of the Meeting Minutes
JSTOR Daily - Matthew Wills
What gets lost when spoken conversations become part of the historical record? Talk-talk, said Winston Churchill (reputedly), is always better than …
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What Does an Earthquake Sound Like?
JSTOR Daily - Danny Robb
Seismologist Hugo Benioff spent decades turning seismic vibrations into signals he could study—and, eventually, hear. In 1953, audio engineer Emory …
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Teaching Students to Follow an Idea
JSTOR Daily - Saurabh Anand
A five-step classroom exercise reframes research as an evolving scholarly conversation rather than a search for sources. I teach first-year academic …
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Building a Library in Wartime Paris
JSTOR Daily - April White
Photos from the American Library in Paris reveal how librarians brought books to US troops during World War I. Photos from the American Library in …