One early morning in Tokyo, in 2005, anthropologist Hugh Raffles was shaken awake by an earthquake. His hotel room overlooked an office building; through long windows, he saw people standing frozen in ...

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The geologic record is exactly that: a record. The strata of rock tell scientists about past environments, much like pages in an encyclopedia. Except this reference book has more pages missing than it ...

Our lives, our histories and our prehistories are defined less by the seamless accumulation of everyday events than by jarring dislocations that seem to come out of nowhere. Cataclysms—think 9/11, or ...

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