The 31-year-old Braves catcher has had a career hindered by injuries, but he delivered a momentum-swinging home run in Game 1 against the Marlins. Continue reading Travis d’Arnaud, Long an October Footnote, Gets His Moment

Choruses are a pandemic no-no, but there is a solution. One music-starved writer joined a drive-in rehearsal. Continue reading A Choir Finds a Way to Sing. Just Ignore the Steering Wheel.

In “The Knowledge Machine,” the philosopher Michael Strevens says that there is something fundamentally irrational and even “inhuman” about the scientific method. Continue reading Modern Science Didn’t Appear Until the 17th Century. What Took So Long?

The Supreme Court’s decision not to hear the case of a New York City developer who painted over murals in 2013 cements a ruling that awarded $6.75 million to the artists. Continue reading Artists Have Final Victory in a Case of Destroyed Graffiti

Indigenous groups have a long history of intentionally setting fires to keep ecosystems healthy. Policymakers are now more interested in the practice. Continue reading Alarmed by Scope of Wildfires, Officials Turn to Native Americans for Help

Old and ailing, they see exercising their fundamental right to vote as a way to have a say in a future they will probably never see. Continue reading These Americans Are Determined to Cast a Last Ballot Before Dying

New research shows that the quantity of fragments embedded in the sea floor far exceeds the plastic floating on the ocean’s surface. Continue reading Hidden Beneath the Ocean’s Surface, Nearly 16 Million Tons of Microplastic

The guitarist, who died this week at 65, gleefully reinvented the rules of being a guitar hero — then bent them again and again. Continue reading Eddie Van Halen, the Shredder Supreme

This isn’t the first time missionaries have risked spreading disease alongside the word of god. Continue reading An Evangelical Conquista in Amazonia

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, who is facing re-election, called the country’s reopening a validation of its “go hard, go early” response. Continue reading New Zealand Stamps Out the Virus. For a Second Time.