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Ever wondered why some people’s eyebrows meet in the middle? An international team of researchers did, so they looked at more than 6,000 people and found, for the first time, the gene that’s likely responsible. The study, published in Nature Communications, investigated the genetics of how people look. The researchers chose to study people in Latin America—a good population for genetics research, since many people there have a mixture of genetic influences, like European, Native American and African.

Greta Gerwig is standing at a corner in Chinatown, trying to figure out the way to Brooklyn. She’s spent nearly half her life in New York City, but we’re at that point in lower Manhattan where the grid devolves into a patchwork maze. After lunch in the West Village, she suggested—on this frigid February day, with flurries swirling about and a doggie bag of half-eaten pasta Bolognese in her backpack—that we trek across the island, and then a bridge, before she heads to pedestrian-averse Los Angeles the next day.

Mark Twain was a great author—but a stupendously incompetent businessman. He lost money on an engraving process, on a magnetic telegraph, on a steam pulley, on the Fredonia Watch Company, on railroad stocks. He once turned down a chance to buy into Bell Telephone even though he had one of the nation’s first residential phones. The author eventually lost so much money that in 1891 he moved the family out of their Hartford home; Twain would sell it after twenty years for about one-sixth the amount he put into it.

OJ Semans has been driving nearly a thousand miles through North Dakota Indian Country to mobilize voters and troubleshoot voting hurdles in the final days before the 2018 midterm elections. But he might not have been here without a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last month on a state law that threatens voting access for thousands of Native Americans in the state. Semans thinks the law — which requires voters to present identification that displays a street address and disproportionately affects Native Americans on reservations, where street addresses are not common — could actually have a mobilizing effect, encouraging more Native Americans to try to vote, even as advocates fear many people will still be turned away.

On June 9, President Joe Biden and the First Lady made a rare visit to the small town of Rocky Mount, N.C., a diverse enclave in a battleground state that his team believes he can win in 2024. It was the town’s first visit from a sitting president since Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964, drawing hundreds of residents to line the streets and wave as the presidential motorcade made its way through town.

Martin Luther King Jr.’s Final Days The book excerpt describing King’s assassination and the events leading up to it brought thoughtful responses from readers who reflected on the civil rights leader’s contributions to racial equality in the U.S. Some felt, however, that certain details about King’s personal life could have been omitted The excerpt from Taylor Branch’s biography of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. [Jan. 9] was superb. It helped show the personal side of the man.

Rather than jungles, lions mainly inhabit savannas and grasslands. Dense rainforests or jungles lack the open areas and abundance of prey that lions find desirable. Although male lions are the leaders of the pride, their leadership is more cooperative and centred on hunting and collective protection than it is in an absolute monarchy The term "jungle" animals was probably coined by European explorers who saw lions in African savannas and mistook them for jungle animals.

Dear Penthouse: I have been going steady with Playboy ever since it came out in 1953. And I want you to understand right off that we’ve had a lot of fun together. Like, when we were both young, it was refreshing to find somebody who dreamed about females the way I dreamed about females. What’s more, Playboy wasn’t interested only in sex. It was the sort of magazine you could read on the Long Island Rail Road because it also published stories by legitimate writers.

The Michael Jackson biopic has found its young King of Pop. Juliano Krue Valdi, a 9-year-old actor, has been cast as Jackson from his early days in the Jackson 5. The film, from director Antoine Fuqua, Lionsgate and Universal Pictures International, will have Valdi playing Jackson “as he and his brothers rise to fame as the Jackson 5, the singing sensation behind such iconic hits as ‘I Want You Back,’ ‘ABC,’ and ‘I’ll Be There,'” it was announced Thursday.