“For decades, workers at a nuclear facility in Kentucky were exposed to dangerous levels of radiation. Management assured them nothing was wrong. Then four friends risked everything to reveal the truth.”
Longreads
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
In this edition: in a pickle; gut feeling; king of pain; life (or something like it); for those about to rock.
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The Store Is Always Open
“The brightness is the same at 8 in the morning and 11 at night.”
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Pass It On
“I want something that feels a little out-of-step, a little outside of the tumultuous present.”
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The Longreads Questionnaire, Featuring Kimon de Greef
The Ego Trip author on the sea, the pull of South Africa, and how his ecology background shapes the stories he tells.
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What Makes Us Better?
We read to lose ourselves, and to understand the lives of others, but we also read in part because it makes us better thinkers.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
In this edition: loving a killer; GRASE under fire; the marvelous mundane; Texas on two wheels; and the man who would be T. rex king.
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Curiosity FTW
Stay open to the obvious, and you may just learn more than you expect.
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How Reporting Creates Change: A Conversation with Pamela Colloff
Writing is always going to be hard and why it’s worth the struggle.