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My mom

My mom runs fast for a 65-year-old. She’s small — 5 ft even — and clocks in at just over 100 lbs. Her compact frame slays in the juniors section of American department stores. I…
SOURCE:Aeon
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2325 words)
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The future of the city

Earlier this spring, I found myself walking through Lower Manhattan. There was still a chill in the air; a few flakes of snow had fallen the night before but nothing had settled. As I wandered, I was…
SOURCE:Aeon
LENGTH: 19 minutes (4914 words)

Beauteous beasts

Among the reeds and roots of India’s flooded rice paddies lives a small, freshwater fish. It is covered, face to fin, in horizontal black-and-white stripes, giving the minnow its name: the…
SOURCE:Aeon
LENGTH: 17 minutes (4325 words)

Isaac’s gift

Atuf, the culture hero, turned to stone. So, too, did Inkelu, his sister. That is how things happened in the Tanimbar Islands. And after several months of travelling around this group of 65 islands…
SOURCE:Aeon
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3662 words)

The Old Man at Burning Man

The land, the very atmosphere  out there, is alien, malignant, the executioner of countless wagon trains. I am afraid to crack the window. Huge dervishes of alkaline dust reel and teeter…
SOURCE:www.gq.com
PUBLISHED: Feb. 7, 2013
LENGTH: 34 minutes (8568 words)

The id and the eco

When I was young, I was told that there were a number of topics I shouldn’t talk about at dinner parties: politics, religion, sex, money and death usually featured on the list. Today we might…
SOURCE:Aeon
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2859 words)
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Unnatural selection

In the hemlock and oak forests of northeastern Connecticut, Steve Brady stood thigh deep in black muck and scooped up a handful of spotted salamander eggs. A Yale PhD student, he had once fancied…
SOURCE:Aeon
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3214 words)

Twitter / ?

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SOURCE:t.co

The Autonomous Car of the Future Is Here

The object, vaguely pink, sits on the shoulder of the freeway, slowly shimmering into view. Is it roadkill? A weird kind of sagebrush? No, wait, it’s … a puffy chunk of foam insulation!…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 20, 2012
LENGTH: 23 minutes (5788 words)
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