Digest

Mistaken intuitions about which numbers to compare can lead us to exaggerate the significance of Covid-19 ‘breakthrough’ infections

The history of Europe is breathtakingly complex, but this animation helps makes sense of 2,400 years of change on the European map.

The best 100 close-up, macro photography and photomicrography pictures of 2021. View the winners of Close-up Photographer of the Year (CUPOTY 03).

The Senators’ spectacular losing record obscures one of the most important stories in baseball history: the club’s role in integrating Latino players into the major leagues

″[W]e have never located so many new wrecks in one season,” says the director of the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society

Eleven Picasso paintings and other works that helped turn Las Vegas into an unlikely destination for art were sold at auction for more than $100 million.

Tom Brady became the first quarterback in NFL history to throw 600 touchdown passes with a 9-yard scoring strike to Mike Evans on Sunday against the Bears.

As the German army marched across France, Aristides de Sousa Mendes faced a choice: obey his government or follow his conscience—and risk everything

Will the city ever recover from its pursuit of Zero Covid?

In some respects, it’s easy to make direct comparisons between the three vaccines; in others, it’s more complicated.