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  1. 1The following text is adapted from Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1837 story "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment." The main character, a physician, is experimenting with rehydrating a dried flower.Medium · Craft and Structure
  2. 2During a 2014 archaeological dig in Spain, Vicente Lull and his team uncovered the skeleton of a woman from El Algar, an Early Bronze Age society, buried with valuable objects signMedium · Craft and Structure
  3. 3The following text is adapted from Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1844 short story "Drowne's Wooden Image." Drowne, a young man, is carving a wooden figure to decorate the front of a ship. Medium · Craft and Structure
  4. 4Although science fiction was dominated mostly by white male authors when Octavia Butler, a Black woman, began writing, she did not view the genre as ______: Butler broke into the fMedium · Craft and Structure
  5. 5The work of molecular biophysicist Enrique M. De La Cruz is known for ______ traditional boundaries between academic disciplines. The university laboratory that De La Cruz runs incMedium · Craft and Structure
  6. 6In Nature Poem (2017), Kumeyaay poet Tommy Pico portrays his ______ the natural world by honoring the centrality of nature within his tribe's traditional beliefs while simultaneousMedium · Craft and Structure
  7. 7The following text is from F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel The Great Gatsby. [Jay Gatsby] was balancing himself on the dashboard of his car with that resourcefulness of movement Medium · Craft and Structure
  8. 8To develop a method for measuring snow depth with laser beams, NASA physicist Yongxiang Hu relied on ______; identifying broad similarities between two seemingly different phenomenMedium · Craft and Structure
  9. 9A journalist and well-respected art critic of nineteenth-century Britain, Lady Elizabeth Rigby Eastlake did not hesitate to publish reviews that went against popular opinion. One oMedium · Craft and Structure
  10. 10Stephen Hannock's luminous landscape paintings are appealing to viewers but have elicited little commentary from contemporary critics, a phenomenon that may be due to the very factMedium · Craft and Structure
  11. 11Bicycle sharing systems allow users to rent a bicycle at one location within a city and return it to any other designated location in that city, which can cause serious problems ofMedium · Craft and Structure
  12. 12In the Indigenous intercropping system known as the Three Sisters, maize, squash, and beans form an ______ web of relations: maize provides the structure on which the bean vines grMedium · Craft and Structure
  13. 13In 2008 a complete set of ancient pessoi (glass game pieces) was uncovered from beneath a paving stone in modern-day Israel. Due to their small size, pessoi were easily misplaced, Medium · Craft and Structure
  14. 14Some researchers believe that the genes that enable groundhogs and certain other mammals to hibernate through the winter by slowing their breathing and heart rates and lowering theMedium · Craft and Structure
  15. 15Handedness, a preferential use of either the right or left hand, typically is easy to observe in humans. Because this trait is present but less ______ in many other animals, animalMedium · Craft and Structure
  16. 16The following text is adapted from Zora Neale Hurston's 1921 short story "John Redding Goes to Sea." John wants to travel far beyond the village where he lives near his mother, MatMedium · Craft and Structure
  17. 17Like the 1945 play it reimagines—Federico García Lorca's The House of Bernarda Alba—Marcus Gardley's 2014 play The House That Will Not Stand prominently features women. In both plaMedium · Craft and Structure
  18. 18The following text is adapted from Karel Čapek's 1920 play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), translated by Paul Selver and Nigel Playfair in 1923. Fabry and Busman are telling MiMedium · Craft and Structure
  19. 19Business researcher Melanie Brucks and colleagues found that remote video conference meetings may be less conducive to brainstorming than in-person meetings are. The researchers suMedium · Craft and Structure
  20. 20Set in a world where science fiction tropes exist as everyday realities, Charles Yu's 2010 novel How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe traces a time traveler's quest tMedium · Craft and Structure
  21. 21Mineralogical differences are detectable in samples collected from two locations on the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu, but such differences may not indicate substantial compositional vMedium · Craft and Structure
  22. 22Interruptions in the supply chain for microchips used in personal electronics have challenged an economist's assertion that retailers can expect robust growth in sales of those devMedium · Craft and Structure
  23. 23In addition to being an accomplished psychologist himself, Francis Cecil Sumner was a ______ increasing the opportunity for Black students to study psychology, helping to found theMedium · Craft and Structure
  24. 24In a 2019 study, Jeremy Gunawardena and colleagues found that the single-celled protozoan Stentor roeseli not only uses strategies to escape irritating stimuli but also switches stMedium · Craft and Structure
  25. 25Novelist N. K. Jemisin declines to ______ the conventions of the science fiction genre in which she writes, and she has suggested that her readers appreciate her work precisely becMedium · Craft and Structure
  26. 26Rydra Wong, the protagonist of Samuel R. Delany's 1966 novel Babel-17, is a poet, an occupation which, in Delany's work, is not ______: nearly a dozen of the characters that populaMedium · Craft and Structure
  27. 27For a 2020 exhibition, photographer and neurobiologist Okunola Jeyifous ______ a series of new images based on a series of alphabet posters from the 1970s known as the "Black ABCs,Medium · Craft and Structure
  28. 28Diego Velázquez was the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV of Spain during the seventeenth century, but his influence was hardly ______ Spain: realist and impressionist Medium · Craft and Structure
  29. 29The artisans of the Igun Eronmwon guild in Benin City, Nigeria, typically ______ the bronze- and brass-casting techniques that have been passed down through their families since thMedium · Craft and Structure