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the bigger picture All You Need Are Wheels and a Mask During the pandemic, a Brooklyn basketball court has become a makeshift roller rink. By Emilia Petrarca

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kindercares Can I Talk to You About Preschool for All? It wasn’t easy, but after years of organizing, my county in Oregon will have universal early-childhood education. By Lydia Kiesling

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how i get it done Earlier this month, Polina V. Lishko, a cellular and developmental biologist at UC Berkeley, was named a MacArthur fellow, a distinction for which she was awarded $625,000 in funding for her work in reproductive biology. Lishko’s research could assist the development of new, nonhormonal forms of contraception. Here, how she gets it done.

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vaccine By Hannah Gold A Second COVID Vaccine May Be Nearly 95 Percent Effective Biotech company Moderna believes it could manufacture millions of doses by the end of this year.

science of us What If Our Problems Feel Too Big for Therapy? Some employers are offering new options for mental-health support. But is that what employees want? By Katie Heaney

it's complicated I Wanted to Feel Athletic and Hot, So I Dated an Awful Jock We didn’t have anything in common but sex. By Shayna Goodman

kindercares Can I Talk to You About Preschool for All? It wasn’t easy, but after years of organizing, my county in Oregon will have universal early-childhood education. By Lydia Kiesling

the bigger picture I took this portrait of my friends Cloe and Max on the last day before we all went into Quarantine. A group of my friends who live close to me decided to go to the beach one last time before we all separated. There was an almost surreal quality to it — like we all knew that life was going to be a lot different in the coming months.

the cut podcast In Her Shoes: Health Educator Erica Chidi On The Cut’s limited podcast series, the co-founder of Loom discusses how she went from doula to women’s-health entrepreneur. By the Cut
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cut covers Mitra Jouhari’s Airhead Act The comedian is an overachieving perfectionist—but she loves playing the idiot. By Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz
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fixations I Think About Björk’s Creativity Animal a Lot “Its nature is quite pranksterish and slippery and everytime u grab its tail its found a nu corner to thrive in,” she wrote. By Josie Thaddeus-Johns

the bigger picture Four Years Later, a Citywide Party In the seconds after major news networks called Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 election, New Yorkers exhaled loudly, in unison. By Claire Lampen and Cheryl Dunn

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how i get it done How Vice News Correspondent Paola Ramos Gets It Done On Latinx identity, her new book, imposter syndrome, and the importance of calling your parents. By Emily Burns
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