Bringing Species Back … From the Brink By Carolyn Wells Highlight “You could actually restore a species to be even more diverse and healthier than it was before, Church says. “You can include diversity from multiple points in the globe and multiple points in time.””
Sniffing Out Love By Carolyn Wells Highlight “Instead of swiping, the strategy is wiping: namely, one’s perspiration onto a cotton pad.”
A Bike Race, Family, and Loss By Carolyn Wells Highlight “We took turns sitting beside my dad and holding his hand. On the TV in the living room, the Tour raced.”
Nelly the Elephant Packed Her Trunk … and Went on the Run By Carolyn Wells Highlight Campaigners want circus elephants placed in specially built sanctuaries. But their owners insist being separated from their human “families” would be traumatic.
Zoom Towns — Where Tourists Never Leave By Carolyn Wells Highlight “There’s another population of people who came and never left: those freed by COVID from cubicles and work commutes.”
The Lies Told to Speak to a Princess By Carolyn Wells Highlight The full story behind the scoop to interview Princess Diana has remained hidden for a quarter of a century — until now.
What Happened to Milad? A Palestinian Father Searches for His Son. By Seyward Darby Highlight One man’s quest to find his son lays bare the reality of Palestinian life under Israeli rule.
Solving the Mystery of Dyatlov Pass By Carolyn Wells Highlight Has the 60-year-old mystery surrounding the deaths of ten skiers finally been solved?
‘Can You Imagine How That Felt?’: Blake Bailey’s Predations, As Told By His Students By Seyward Darby Highlight The inside story of author Blake Bailey’s grooming of middle-school girls.
All Flourishing Is Mutual By Carolyn Wells Highlight “My favorite moment came in the years when my ǧáǧṃ́p would nod to himself and make the official pronouncement: “It’s going to be a good year for salmon.” In that moment, we felt like little harbingers of hope.”
“We Can’t Rush This Kind of Power”: An Educator on Teaching Poetry to High Schoolers During the Pandemic By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight “Poetry has a way of forcing one into recognition, or transformation, or both if we’re lucky.”
‘The Price For Your Return to Normal Is My Life’: On Dismantling Layers of the Doll By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight “I have to wear all of these dolls, you see, so that Whiteness does not have to wear any.”
No Escape from Online Memories By Carolyn Wells Highlight The algorithms that drive Facebook, Pinterest, and a million other apps don’t know when your life changes course — and can keep up a stream of painful memories.
Listen to the Sound of My Voice By Seyward Darby Highlight How a journalist found her voice as her mother lost hers.
The Silent Farm for Developmental Disabilities By Carolyn Wells Highlight “David believes that the men who come to the farm are able to connect deeply with the animals and the natural world, in part because of the way that society has dismissed them.”
Life and Love in the Utah Desert By Carolyn Wells Highlight Learning lessons about love while living in a 1961 Artcraft mobile home in Moab, Utah.
Before Donating Your Body Was a Choice By Carolyn Wells Highlight Whose nervous system is stretched out in a glass case at Drexel University’s medical campus?
The Deadly Fentanyl Fraud Between the Doctor and the Pharmacist By Krista Stevens Highlight “Then, after he was done seeing patients for the day, he’d begin his other work. The work no one could find out about. The work that would destroy his life, along with hundreds of others.”
The Syrian Rebels Who Found Refuge in Books By Carolyn Wells Highlight In a town under siege from Assad’s regime, a small group built a library from books rescued from the rubble.
“I Was at a Loss for Any Facts that Would Actually Stick”: An Investigative Reporter on Losing His Mom to QAnon By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight At BuzzFeed News, Albert Samaha describes his effort to save his mom from QAnon.
The Struggle of Having a Pandemic Baby By Carolyn Wells Highlight Giving birth in the last year has meant a suffocatingly cloistered, rather than a communal, experience.
Good Naked vs. Bad Naked By Krista Stevens Highlight “As marriages go, ours is an infant. Soft-skulled and milk-breathed. We’ve been married for two years, together for five.”
Forget the Sheep, Pass the Dog By Carolyn Wells Highlight “The dogs knew the routine: settle down and relax so that the women could cut away their white tresses, shearing the dogs as closely as shearers do sheep.”
Pop Culture Portrays OCD as a Blessing. It’s Not. By Krista Stevens Highlight “The Wall Street Journal recently used the headline ‘We All Need OCD Now’ for an article on COVID-19 … Finally, my debilitating mental illness has a timely hook!”
The Joy of a Pointless Walk By Carolyn Wells Highlight “Maybe walking into some marshes, and deciding at an undetermined future point to stop walking, was what was available to the Romantics, but I think we can do better.”
Why Mother Maybelle Carter’s Work Was Never Done By Krista Stevens Highlight “In a few years’ time, however, she became a different kind of working woman: a musician by trade and one of the hardest working women in country music.”
Congratulations, You Now Own a Newspaper By Krista Stevens Highlight “’I think if the town survives, the newspaper will survive. I think we’re so intertwined. It’s not going to be one without the other. Our fates are going to be the same.'”
“Can I Get You a Nice Chianti?” By Carolyn Wells Highlight Jodie Foster and Sir Anthony Hopkins talk about “The Silence of the Lambs” for the movie’s 30th anniversary.
When Death Came to Mauritius By Krista Stevens Highlight “Black waves bring animals to the town’s shore. Sticky corpses float on the oil.”
Graded by an Algorithm By Carolyn Wells Highlight “Algorithms…don’t go on mutant rampages, they only sometimes reveal and amplify the cruddy human biases that underpin them.”
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