To track changes in sea ice, the Norwegian research vessel Lance drifted along with it for five months in 2015, on a rare voyage from Arctic winter into spring. Photo: Andy Isaacson
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC | Earth cools when sunlight reflects off Arctic sea ice—which is melting away. Where does that leave us?
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Photos by: Andy Isaacson
BIOGRAPHIC | A team of herpetologists treks into one of South America’s most pristine and poorly understood mountain ranges and discovers animals found nowhere else on Earth.
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NEW YORK TIMES | Ayahuasca visions and cultural tourism in Ecuador's rain forest.
Read MoreThe sex toy as design object: the innards of Jimmyjane's Form 6 vibrator.
THE ATLANTIC | Sex toys have transformed into sophisticated and well-designed gadgets that take their inspiration from Apple not Hustler. But one company has a bigger hope: that a better machine could mean better sex for a repressed nation.
Read MorePaul Stamets with agarikon. Photo by: Andy Isaacson
MOTHER JONES | Paul Stamets is on a quest to find an endangered mushroom that could cure smallpox, TB, and even bird flu. Can he unlock its secrets before deforestation and climate change wipe it out?
Read MoreTHE NEW YORKER | Two weeks ago, the planet’s most unlikely film star turned from a Ugandan warlord to a nine-year-old kid who runs a homemade cardboard arcade out of his dad’s used-auto-parts store, Smart Parts, in East Los Angeles.
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NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TRAVELER | Everything is off the beaten track on the world’s most remote inhabited island.
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BIOGRAPHIC | An innovative approach to Madagascar's malnutrition crisis may be one of the best hopes for protecting the island nation's imperiled primates and the forests they call home.
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UTNE | The social significance of tea in America: how tea became the beverage of inner peace and armchair travel.
In Melissa Hill¹s class at Knight Enloe Elementary School in Roanoke, Alabama, kindergarteners were issued MIT-programmed tablets without any instructions. Credit: Andy Isaacson
SMITHSONIAN | Give them technology that they may have never seen before, and students' brains will work wonders.
Read MoreThe remains of a fortress, built by a tribe of fire worshipers in the third century, dominates a ridge above the Wakhan Valley between Tajikistan and Afghanistan. Credit: Andy Isaacson
NEW YORK TIMES | Retracing the Silk Road through Tajikistan.
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