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Thinking about buying some lights to illuminate the trunks of your trees at night? It might be aesthetically pleasing, but excess nighttime light does real harm. In addition to affecting insects and birds, “artificial light at night” aka, ALAN, has negative...

How would you feel if your therapist’s notes—your darkest thoughts and deepest feelings —were held for ransom? And if you didn’t pay up, the notes would be shared with the whole world? For 33,000 Finnish people, that became a terrifying reality a few...

Nearly a century ago, R.K.O. Pictures took the hatchet to Orson Welles’s The Magnificent Ambersons, a move the acclaimed filmmaker credited with ruining his career. Since then, select fans have attempted to reconstruct Welles’s original, pitting their...