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by Jalees Rehman I grew up in a culture of guilt. One of the defining characteristics of post-war Germany was the "Vergangenheitsbewältigung", a monstrous German word that describes…
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3403 words)
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Getting stuffed: a tale of love and taxidermy

Flights of fancy: a stuffed tawny and barn owl. Photograph: Alamy Does there come a day in every man's life when he looks around and says to himself: I've got to weed out some of these owls? I can't…
PUBLISHED: April 13, 2013
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3220 words)

Seeing at the Speed of Sound

Lipreading, which makes one sense do the work of another, is a skill daunting to describe. Rachel Kolb, '12, deaf since birth, shares its mysteries. I am sitting in my office during a summer…
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3702 words)

Cold Pastoral

When Marina Keegan died, tragically, at the age of twenty-two, in a car accident in May, she had just graduated from Yale University and was about to start a job on the editorial staff of The New…
PUBLISHED: Oct. 5, 2012
LENGTH: 28 minutes (7018 words)

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Playboy, January 2012On a hay-mown crest, dozens of people are crouching in the dark. The Earth has turned away from the sun, and the sky has flowed down a color chart, from light gray to orange to…
LENGTH: 26 minutes (6642 words)

Restless Genes

In the winter of 1769, the British explorer Captain James Cook, early into his first voyage across the Pacific, received from a Polynesian priest named Tupaia an astonishing gift—a map, the…
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4125 words)

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by Jalees Rehman The psychiatrist held the door open for me and my first thought as I entered the room was “Where is the couch?”. Instead of the expected leather couch, I saw a patient…
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3236 words)
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