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By now you’ve probably seen our Longreads Member Exclusives—a mix of outstanding magazine stories and book excerpts you can’t find anywhere else on the web, from writers…
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LENGTH: 1 minutes (267 words)

Inside Paul Allen's Quest To Reverse Engineer The Brain

Single-Page Version Reverse Engineering The Brain Behind a black curtain in a small room a titanium sapphire laser is prepared to fire at a tiny and very surprising target: a half-centimeter glass…
PUBLISHED: Sept. 18, 2012
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3075 words)

Her Honor

(Photo: Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States) The inside of the ceremonial courtroom of the United States Supreme Court—where formal oral arguments are heard from October…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 27, 2011
LENGTH: 3 minutes (795 words)

All the Angry People

Until this fall, Ray Kachel had lived virtually all of his fifty-three years within a few miles of his birthplace, in Seattle. He was a self-taught Jack-of-all-trades in the computer industry, who…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 5, 2011
LENGTH: 22 minutes (5580 words)
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