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The Clearing (Courtesy of Cunning Folk Films) "The sky split in two." Those words stuck with Stephanie Trainer. She was reading an issue of National Geographic when she came across an article about the Tunguska Event: On June 30, 1908, a massive explosion wiped out almost a thousand square miles of forest in the deepest heart of Russia, an event that has still never been explained to this day. She vaguely remembered it as the backdrop to an episode of The X-Files, but the article opened up a rabbit hole for her. While the scientific discussion was fascinating, what really intrigued her wer...

“Lockdown brought a sense of madness”: a conversation between Johnny Flynn and Robert Macfarlane Folk musician and actor Johnny Flynn speaks to his friend, the nature writer Robert Macfarlane, about lockdown, the natural world and their new album. The Dig,  Emma), walked along the River Lea in east London with his friend, the bestselling nature writer and academic Robert Macfarlane ( Underland,  The Old Ways). The water was clearer than the last time Macfarlane was here, he said, and there were fewer carrier bags strewn along the banks. He pointed to a cormorant as it surfaced, and Fl...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   SOUTH NEWFANE — Tasked with coming up with a policy proposal for a graduate school class, Juliette Carr originally thought her idea might be too simple. She wanted the Special Supplemental Nutritional Program for Women, Infants and Children benefits to be redeemable at farmers markets in Vermont just like those associated with Electronic Benefit Transfer cards. “That’s problematic because WIC is much more broadly available,” she said. Carr wrote a policy brief with the goal of improving health equity, access to healthy ...

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It is expected that 40% of workers will work remotely in the future. Get ready for some dramatic change in a key part of the economy — commercial office space. The implications are significant. Today, Westminster and Weybosset streets in Providence’s “financial district” are now nearly void of pedestrians and auto traffic. A new national survey of 5,000 employed adults across the U.S. found that 40% of workers expect to have some form of continued remote work flexibility post-pandemic. 19% expect to have a hybrid arrangement that allows for remote work multiple days per week, while 21...