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Extraordinary people, discoveries, and places in a time of turmoil

PHOTOGRAPH BY RENAN OZTURK The last death-defying honey hunter of Nepal For centuries the Kulung people have remained separate from the outside world. In 2017, we met one Kulung hunter—a man who risks his life to harvest valuable psychotropic honey. It's guarded by capricious spirits and the world’s largest honeybees. SUBSCRIBER EXCLUSIVE SHARE

PHOTOGRAPH BY SANNE DE WILDE, NOOR On the Island of the Colorblind, paradise has a different hue According to legend, the survivor of a devastating typhoon on this South Pacific atoll passed a rare gene to the island's later generations. Today roughly 10 percent of the locals are believed to have the gene—a rate high enough that the concept of color has acquired new meaning here. SEE THE COLORS SHARE

PHOTOGRAPH BY NASA, JPL-CALTECH, SPACE SCIENCE INSTITUTE In its final moments, Cassini beamed home these eerily beautiful images As the beloved spacecraft hurtled toward its fiery doom, it delivered one last set of postcards from the edge of Saturn: its hazy moon Titan; the ice moon Enceladus and its cosmic grin; and the planet's iconic rings. SEE THE PHOTOS SHARE

PHOTOGRAPH BY JOEL SARTORE, NATIONAL GEOGRPHIC PHOTO ARK These threatened animals are poised to bounce back from the brink Habitat preservation, anti-poaching efforts, and advances in captive-breeding programs have offered a lifeline to the most endangered members of the biosphere, from this grizzly to hairy rhinos to squirrel-size monkeys. SUBSCRIBER EXCLUSIVE SHARE

Happiness is not an absolute value. It is a state of comparison. Zadie Smith Writer, novelist; from NW

PHOTOGRAPH BY AKG/ALBUM/FRANÇOIS GUÉNET Pirates swashbuckled across the ancient Mediterranean Thousands of years before Blackbeard, these buccaneers raided ships, stole booty—and even kidnapped a young Julius Caesar. COME ABOARD! SHARE

PHOTOGRAPH BY HULTON ARCHIVE/GETTY IMAGES From Frida Kahlo to Josephine Baker: 12 LGBTQ leaders who changed the world Baker—the Jazz Age singer who advocated for desegregation—also spied on the Germans during World War II. See the other activists, artists, doctors, and writers who had a lasting impact on the world. READ ON SHARE

PHOTOGRAPH FROM AUSCAPE, UIG VIA GETTY IMAGES This hairless Mexican dog has a storied, ancient past To the ancient Aztec and Maya, man's best friend—the xoloitzcuintli—was also a hairless, ugly-cute healer, occasional food source, and, most importantly, guide to the Underworld. ARF! SHARE

Need a distraction? LISTEN: Miss going to the theater? Try 'The Lockdown Plays' (NYT)  ›› READ: The Beatles, the slave trade and a now-resolved controversy (Rolling Stone)  ››

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