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Thanksgiving Longreads: What Lab Creation Are You Eating?

1947 Spam ad featuring pineapple and BBQ sauce. Yum? James Vaughan /Flickr For the past hundred years or so, the food industry has used the laws of chemistry to beat nature into submission. Apples…
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1149 words)

The ruins of empire: Asia's emergence from western imperialism

Raffles Place, Singapore … 'European withdrawal after the second world war was never in doubt.' Photograph: Roslan Rahman/AFP/Getty Images The British empire, George Orwell wrote, was "despotism with…
PUBLISHED: July 27, 2012
LENGTH: 15 minutes (3754 words)

Tar Sands Showdown in the Nebraska Sandhills

Welles Enterprises At a heated hearing in the heart of cornhusker country, one cowboy poet gives…
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1519 words)
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