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it will all work out
the last person who taught you something
the summer of ’93: when wonder came easy
the scrappy toolkit
what the mom with the stray cat doesn’t know
goodbye yellow brick road
a month of almosts
going for gold
what the octopus figured out that can help nonprofits
Our 2026 Word of the Year: Gather
Octopuses were long thought to be solitary creatures. Then scientists found them building cities together. Nonprofits are often the same way: resilient, scrappy, self-sufficient. But this year, we’re naming something different. GATHER Off the coast of Australia, researchers discovered Octlantis, communities of octopuses living together, building dens from discarded shells, forming social hierarchies, communicating, and…
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