How Keeth Smart Became the Best Fencer in the World

After nearly dying of cancer, Smart defied the odds and won a silver medal at the 2008 Olympics.

The President Sang Amazing Grace

Joan Baez performs the mournful song in a new animated video that remembers Obama’s visit to Charleston.

Herbert Fingarette once argued that there was no reason to fear death. At 97, his own mortality began to haunt him.

A London restaurant embodies the virtues of sustainability with a food system that generates zero waste.

Luke O'Brien explains how the anonymity of the internet continues to help the alt-right proliferate.

Venture to an island off the coast of Australia to meet the quokka, the world’s smiliest mammal.

She was raised as a boy. After a doctor discovered a half-formed ovary, Tatenda decided to live as a young woman.

Some academics and mycologists offer an alternative Christmas origin story—one of a mushroom-toting healer from the Arctic.

In Mexico, an indigenous culture both accepts and celebrates a non-binary gender.

Trying to do too many internet things at once makes it hard to get anything done at all.

The mores around alcohol consumption are changing for Millennials, but that may not be reflected in their habits just yet.

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