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Homemade Christmas cookies being prepared (Getty Images/Mrs_2015)

Your ultimate holiday cookie prep guide

Ashlie D. Stevens
Variety of Christmas cookies (Getty Images/Alexander Spatari)

A brief history of the Christmas cookie

Ashlie D. Stevens
Anti-vaccine mandate protesters demonstrate, on August 24, 2021, outside of the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus, to support the Vaccine Choice and Anti-Discrimination Act, a bill that would prohibit mandatory vaccinations, and vaccination status disclosures. (STEPHEN ZENNER/AFP via Getty Images)

Anti-vaxxers co-opt "my body, my choice"

Nathan Nobis
Marjorie Taylor Greene (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

2021: The year of Marjorie Taylor Greene

Jon Skolnik
An aerial photo shows damage, as cleanup efforts continue after tornado, hit Mayfield, Kentucky, United States on December 12, 2021. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Climate change drives deadly storms

John Allen - The Conversation
Demonstrators gather in front of the U.S. Supreme Court as the justices hear arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health, a case about a Mississippi law that bans most abortions after 15 weeks, on December 01, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

A philosopher on bad abortion arguments

Nathan Nobis
Model of Human Coronavirus, fractured (Getty Images/Alexandr Gnezdilov Light Painting)

What you need to know about omicron

Louis Jacobson - KFF Health News
Author Alice Sebold in New York City (Neville Elder/Corbis via Getty Images)

Timeline of Alice Sebold's "Lucky" saga

Trish Rooney, Hanh Nguyen
The James Webb Space Telescope hovering over Earth, concept (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Meet Hubble's ambitious successor

Daniel Karel
Coronavirus, COVID-19 concept (Andriy Onufriyenko/Getty Images)

Everything we know about Omicron variant

Brett Bachman
Demonstrates protest during "Fire Drill Friday" climate change protest on December 6, 2019 in Washington, DC. Speakers address the ways in which climate change affects migration and human rights. The movement demands fast action for a "Green New Deal," including renewable energy by 2030, and no new exploration or drilling for fossil fuels, including the end to taxpayer subsidies to oil companies. (John Lamparski/Getty Images)

Society can go on despite climate change

Marianne Apostolides - Undark
Typing on laptop (Getty Images)

The future of work is hybrid

Alanah Mitchell - The Conversation
Borax Laundry Soap Box (Lauren A. Little/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle/Getty Images)

Why anti-vaxxers are bathing in Borax

Matthew Rozsa
Cows grazing (Getty Images)

The spooky origins of vaccines

Brendan Borrell - Undark
Marin County Fire medic Kevin Stone prepares a dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to be administered to staff at The Tamalpais Marin assisted living facility in Greenbrae, California. (Jessica Christian/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)

Why many unions oppose vaccine mandates

Jeffrey Hirsch - The Conversation
A picture taken at the Louvre Museum in Paris shows "The Raft of the Medusa", painted by Theodore Gericault (MARTIN BUREAU/AFP via Getty Images))

How AI is hijacking art history

Sonja Drimmer - The Conversation
Small boy getting a vaccine on his arm by a pediatrician wearing gloves. (Getty Images/Luis Alvarez)

The pediatric COVID vaccine, explained

Nicole Karlis
Artist conception of the James Webb Space Telescope. (NASA GSFC/CIL/Adriana Manrique Gutierrez)

NASA's new telescope, explained

Chris Impey - The Conversation
Empty pews and stained glass windows in church (Getty Images/ Monashee Frantz)

Can churches help those in crisis?

Brad R. Fulton - The Conversation
Coronavirus and the Brain (Getty Images/Amornrat Phuchom)

Even mild COVID cases can affect brain

Jessica Bernard - The Conversation
Heavy smoke from nearby wild fires covers the Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco on August 20, 2020 as seen from the Marin Headlands in Sausalito, California. (Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)

How to purify your home after a wildfire

Bernard J. Wolfson - KFF Health News
(Getty/Eric Piermont)

A controversial climate change solution

Emily Pontecorvo - Grist
Several hundred white nationalists and white supremacists carrying torches marched in a parade through the University of Virginia campus, chanting "White lives matter! You will not replace us! and Jews will not replace us!" (Evelyn Hockstein/For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

"Great replacement" goes mainstream

Jon Skolnik
Children playing in the park in face masks (Getty Images)

Can masks inhibit speech development?

Alex Hazlett - Undark
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