An announcement from Simon & Schuster’s publisher left the literary community wondering whether blurbs, the little snippets of praise on a book jacket, are all they’re cracked up to be.

Gianni Rodari used puns, topsy-turvyism and zany names to invent stories for children and help children invent their own. By Mac Barnett For the three Latino kids transported to 1862 Mexico in ...

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February 2, 2025 • Humans actually have vestigial muscles that activate when listening closely to something, even though people lost the ability to really move their ears about 25 million years ago.

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November 25, 2024 • Books We Love returns with 350+ new titles handpicked by NPR staff and trusted critics. Find 12 years of recommendations all in one place — that's nearly 4,000 great reads.

suggesting that human ACE2 transgenic pigs are a viable large animal model for COVID-19.

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