Top Science Longreads of 2012 – Phenomena: Not Exactly Rocket Science

Ignore the tedious pundits bloviating about shrunken attention spans. There has never been a better time to immerse yourself in long, deep, rich science reporting. Here’s a list of my 12 top…
AUTHOR:Ed Yong
PUBLISHED: Dec. 24, 2012
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1434 words)

Chicken of the trees

It starts every summer with the first ripening tomato. Maybe it's the early blush on a squat Cherokee Purple, or the lighter stripes of a Green Zebra turning pale yellow, or a lime Bush Beefsteak…
AUTHOR:Mike Sula
LENGTH: 24 minutes (6235 words)

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Lost loves and lost years

In the golden age of American travel, the platforms of train stations were knee deep in what looked like fog. You see it all the time in black-and-white movies, these low-lying eddies of silver. I…
PUBLISHED: April 20, 2009
LENGTH: 15 minutes (3865 words)
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