Our special King Tut cover story. Plus, Ryan Reynolds’ Wales; the rise of pickleball.
| | Tuesday, October 18, 2022 | | | | |
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He sold watercolors to tourists on the Nile. His patron was an English nobleman with a love for ancient Egypt.
After the two labored for five years, a chance discovery led them to unearth the treasure-laden tomb of a legendary boy king, sealed for more than 3,000 years. In the two centuries since, Tutankhamun—King Tut—has fascinated the world (above, his golden effigy).
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| | Our bodies are unique. Our cancers are too. (Pictured above, a woman performs a breast self-examination to check for changes in the tissue. Self-examination accounts for about 65 percent of breast cancer discoveries.) | | | | | | | | | |
 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY MATT ROURKE, AP/SHUTTERSTOCK | | | They’re coming: At the epicenter of an invasion in Berks County, Pennsylvania, the spotted lanternfly (pictured above) is thriving: swarms fill the sky like a biblical plague while forests are blanketed in sticky discharge and mold. As the bug spreads with surprising speed, researchers are trying all types of mass-killing techniques on the invasive insect to save native wildlife—and protect wine grapes and beer hops from their straw-like jaws. | | | |
| | Steady dining: Open landfills may be ugly, but they’ve also changed migratory patterns for birds like the white stork. The stork used to be a wholly migratory bird, breeding in Europe and migrating come winter to Africa. But resident stork populations have emerged on the Iberian Peninsula, thanks to year-round landfill food supply. (Nat Geo Explorer Jasper Doest photographed this stork at a landfill in Portugal.) | | | |
 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY KENDRICK BRINSON | | Inside America’s fastest growing sport: Was it named after the dog Pickles? Or the mishmash boat in crew where leftover oarsmen form a “pickle boat”? In either case, pickleball—invented in 1965 by a group of bored children—is sweeping the country, with everyone from septuagenarians to prison inmates grabbing a paddle. (Pictured above, pickleball players in Arizona.)
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| Today’s newsletter was edited and curated by Sydney Combs, Jen Tse, and David Beard. Readers, have you ever played pickleball? Like it? Let us know! | | | |
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