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A few more thoughts on climate and borders

A few more thoughts on climate and borders

The Sequencer team chimes in

The sun's atmosphere and corona showing hotter and cooler regions

Sweet mother of god did you see these pictures of the Sun

Jumping Jehoshaphat!

Marchers at a gay rights rally holding a sign that says "Equality Without Exemptions"

The case against the "gay gene"

What "Born This Way" got wrong, and whether we should even search for a genetic cause for sexuality

Solar eclipse watchers sitting in chairs on a rocky shore next to a lighthouse

The solar eclipse, as seen by Sequencer readers

Earlier this week we asked our readers to share with us their photos of Monday's solar eclipse. What each person saw during the eclipse – in their backyard, in the park, several time zones away from home squatting in a cemetery – was shaped by our lives, as all art,

The sun colored red-orange, partially eclipsed.

Send us your eclipse photos!

Show! Us! The! Eclipse!

Solar eclipse seen through trees branches

Things seen and unseen at the solar eclipse, 2024

Strange darkness, confused birds, and the varieties of scientific experience.

A time lapse photo of a solar eclipse

A brief list of things I hope will happen during the 2024 solar eclipse

Keeping my fingers crossed!!

The neuroscientist Andrew Huberman sitting in a chair on a stage.

Andrew Huberman is a celebrity first

And the case against celebrity scientists couldn’t be clearer

Masha, a gray cat, laying on a pile of blankets and yawning.

A brief introduction to a cat

The joy and the benefit of reader-supported publications like Sequencer is the relationship that readers and writers develop together. We are all characters in each others' lives. My therapist is known by his first name among my friends because I bring him up so often. Writers and artists I&

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Welcome to SEQUENCER

What are we? Who are we? Why are we?

A view of a Swiss mountain meadow, with a rock outcropping visible in the middle and small yellow flowers around the edges.

Alpine flower resolves sexual conflict through spacetime manipulation

You are a pretty little flower. You are Pulsatilla alpina, the alpine pasqueflower. You are have both male and female sexual machinery. This raises a conflict within you. All species that sexually reproduce have "sexual conflict," where sex-specific traits have different evolutionary arcs or are just straight-up in

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