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Following this week's ruling from a federal judge, at least one Texas healthcare provider is again performing abortions past six weeks of pregnancy. / BuzzFeed News
The estate of Henrietta Lacks is suing a pharmaceutical company for selling her cells, which were taken without her knowledge or consent by doctors in 1951. / The Guardian
Parents of children affected by Zika let researchers study their kids, and years later feel abandoned by the medical community. / Undark
Stunning images of Utah's Bears Ears and Grand Staircase Escalante national monuments, the boundaries of which Biden restored today, reversing a Trump order. / NPR
A glimpse into the past and future of kites, including creations that resemble "things that shouldn't be flown on a kite." / The New York Times
TikTok influencers are enjoying all the views that come from diagnosing their audiences with trauma response. / Slate
Looking back at Vanity Fair's 2007 "Africa" issue, which elevated Western voices over African ones. / Africa Is a Country
How Covid changed medical fly-ins—the practice where doctors from wealthy countries travel to poorer nations. / NPR
Because deep-sea fish live in frigid temperatures and darkness, preserving specimens for on-land viewing requires workarounds. / Atlas Obscura
New samples from China's lunar lander show the Moon's volcanoes were active more recently than previously thought. / MIT Technology Review
The story of Bruce Cathie, a plan to map every UFO sighting on a "Harmonic Grid," and the notion Earth began as a giant crystal. / Motherboard
A new documentary investigates a 1968 film—using waterlogged images from a reel of the film that spent decades underwater. / Hyperallergic
"I asked her what it was like to have her husband home again, piled up in her driveway." On composting a loved one. / Harper's
Archeologists discover a 90- to 120,000-year-old leather and fur production site, the earliest evidence of human clothing. / Smithsonian Magazine
Feds bypass the controversy over "keyword warrant" dragnets, issuing a sealed, secret order to Google. / Forbes
Revisiting Marie Calloway, who left publishing and the internet just as her influence began reshaping both. / BuzzFeed News
A four-print series by George Baxter, featuring some ill-equipped mountaineers, helped fuel the 19th-century Mont Blanc craze. / Public Domain Review
Illustrating different forms of decentralization. / New_ Public
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