Jacob Stern
Jacob Stern is an editorial fellow at The Atlantic.
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David Becker / Stringer / Getty ‘Storm Area 51’ Could Be a Disaster for Lincoln County
The Facebook event may have started in jest, but local officials are bracing for mayhem.
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NASA Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Is Behaving Strangely
For a time, it looked as though the planet’s defining feature might be on the verge of extinction.
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NASA One Small Controversy About Neil Armstrong’s Giant Leap
When, exactly, did the astronaut set foot on the moon? No one knows.
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Tim Clayton / Corbis / Getty The Stubborn Culture of Harassment in America’s Medical Schools
A Yale cardiologist accused of sexual misconduct received one of the university’s highest honors, and the aftermath has revealed how much power men still have in academic medicine.
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Damian Dovarganes / AP Tracking Down a Catastrophic Fire’s First Spark
The investigation into a wildfire’s source is crucial to avoiding future disasters.
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Jacob Stern Yale Law School’s Reckoning Over Brett Kavanaugh
Students and faculty staged a sit-in Monday in protest against President Trump’s nomination of the conservative appellate-court judge, a 1990 Yale Law graduate, to the Supreme Court.
