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Up All Night

Some people can’t go to sleep until late; others can’t sleep in. Both suffer “social jet lag.” Illustration by Nishant Choksi. Nathan
PUBLISHED: March 11, 2013
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3247 words)

Quite Likely the Worst Job Ever

A tosher at work c. 1850 ,sieving raw sewage in one of the dank, dangerous and uncharted sewers beneath the streets of London. From Mayhew’s London Labour and the London Poor. To live in…
AUTHOR:Mike Dash
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3290 words)

Team of Mascots

CAN YOU NAME THEM? Gone are the days when presidents relied on their Cabinets as privy councillors on the most important questions.Photographs by Bill Clark/Roll Call (Napolitano), Yuri Gripas/AFP…
PUBLISHED: July 2, 2012
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1971 words)
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Craig Venter’s Bugs Might Save the World

Craig Venter. In the menagerie of Craig Venter’s imagination, tiny bugs will save the world. They will be custom bugs, designer bugs — bugs that only Venter can create. He will mix them up in his…
PUBLISHED: May 30, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (769 words)

Why Do So Few Blacks Study the Civil War?

In my seventh-grade year, my school took a bus trip from our native Baltimore to Gettys­burg, Pennsylvania, the sanctified epicenter of American tragedy. It was the mid-’80s, when…
LENGTH: 15 minutes (3759 words)

My Top Longreads of 2011

GQ’s Sean Fennessey: My Top Longreads of 2011 Sean Fennessey is the editor of GQ.com. (See more stories on his Longreads page.) I’ll try to follow a few guidelines for the sake of…
AUTHOR:longreads
LENGTH: 2 minutes (745 words)
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