“People are dying waiting” By Krista Stevens Highlight “Miguel Jr. and Jeannette are troubled that Miguel’s doctors didn’t present ECMO as an option, and then resisted the idea when the family suggested it.”
“Addiction is a thief of your goodbyes” By Krista Stevens Highlight “I got angry, my mother cried, the addicts got high. That became a holiday theme for years to come.”
“The Internet Is Inside Us”: Patricia Lockwood on the Portal, Twitter, and Her New Novel By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight In an interview at GQ, Patricia Lockwood talks about the perils of being extremely online.
Taking Your Butt to a Higher Level By Carolyn Wells Highlight “Working in concert with the perfect breasts, the perfect bottom turns the body into the shape of an S. ‘It’s the classic hourglass figure,’ said Melissa. ‘That’s what you go after.'”
Dear Mom & Dad: We Need to Talk about QAnon By Seyward Darby Highlight Children Of QAnon believers are desperately trying to deradicalize their parents.
The Big Bear Reading List By Carolyn Wells Feature The elusive bear is a thing of fascination, and writers have a lot to say about them.
“A Series of Small Collapses Caused by Continual Neglect” By Krista Stevens Highlight “A series of small collapses is how they come to be radicalized.”
Life Goals: Power Couple Megan Rapinoe and Sue Bird By Krista Stevens Highlight “When two people are on the same page, and they love each other, and they’re working towards something better, you can do a lot of good things.”
Justin Townes Earl: The Saint of Lost Causes By Krista Stevens Highlight Fellow singer-songwriter Jessica Lea Mayfield, who frequently toured with Earle, described his gift more simply: “He was able to explain trouble better than most.”
Getting Up When You Fall From the Sky By Carolyn Wells Highlight “Fear coursed through my veins. A horrible metallic taste, worse than bile, rose in my throat. The taste of terror.”
A Young Cartographer’s Mission to Map the Catholic Church — and Fight Climate Change By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight “The role of the cartographer isn’t just data analytics,” says Molly Burhans, an activist mapping the land assets of the Catholic Church. “It’s also storytelling.”
Earl King Deserves His Due By Krista Stevens Highlight Earl King’s “discs were among the rare ones where the words were as important as the music, where blues guitar was balanced with second-line piano, and where the B-sides were as strong as the A-sides.”
The Team of Scientists Behind Moderna’s COVID-19 Vaccine By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight How scientists developed a COVID-19 vaccine in record time.
The Heavy Burden of Breasts By Carolyn Wells Highlight “He covers his face with his hands. He doesn’t cry. He hasn’t really cried for eight years – since he started with testosterone injections.”
Tragedy on the Pacific Crest Trail By Krista Stevens Highlight “Trevor spoke to Doug…“Physically, I’m doing fine,” he said. ‘My body’s just tired because we’ve been doing 20-mile days for eight days in a row.’ It was their final conversation.”
This Visionary Chef Has Unlocked the Secrets of the Sea Floor. Can He Change the Way We Eat? By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight Harvesting rice from the sea? This Spanish chef dreams big.
How Vocal Injury Can Change You By Carolyn Wells Highlight “But in ‘speaking around’ that injury, I was apparently projecting a new personality into the world: a more monotone, less enthusiastic, less engaged personality.”
All Aboard for an Adventure in Inequality By Krista Stevens Highlight “‘Did you enjoy your tour? Carrot-ginger soup for lunch today!’ And please don’t look at the corpse over there.”
Closure for a Sister Disappeared By Krista Stevens Highlight “The crypt was a memorial for victims of the regime; she would lie with her peers, after all.”
The Household Covid Budget By Carolyn Wells Highlight “She and her five housemates needed to find a way to live safely together. So they decided to adhere to a collective risk model of their own design.”
In Georgia, Citrus is Just Peachy By Krista Stevens Highlight “’You’re going to see Georgia citrus become the next Vidalia onion,’ Franklin says. ‘Soon they’ll be in every grocery store around.’”
Leap of Faith By Carolyn Wells Highlight “The men call up to Sofiane, telling him that he and his brother have to jump. Guelord shouts that the younger boy needs to go first. Sofiane should throw him down.”
Rush Drummer Neil Peart: Master Student By Krista Stevens Highlight Neil Peart “was brilliant enough to skip two grades, starting high school at 12. He began drum lessons, practicing for a full year without an actual kit.”
‘We Told You So’: Revisiting the Bleak, Pandemic-Filled World of 12 Monkeys, 25 Years Later By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight “Gilliam does believe that the end of society may soon be upon us. The question for him is: What shape will the new one take?”
The Unseen in a Pandemic without Technology By Carolyn Wells Highlight “It’s been more than a year that we haven’t been able to see him…We’re getting old. We don’t know how much time we have left.
‘Everyone Benefits from a Frozen Arctic’ By Krista Stevens Highlight “The world should not, cannot, go back to business as usual without a clearer understanding and consciousness of how we live.”
What Happened to Cruise Ship Workers Once the Passengers Were Gone? By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight At the start of the COVID-19 outbreak, cruise companies “went to great lengths to repatriate vacationers.” But for crew members, it was a different story.
‘Almost Home’: On Place, Legacy, Growing Up in Atlanta, and Symbols of White Supremacy By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight An essay on growing up in the South, legacy, and a place rooted in white supremacy.
2020: One Year, Lifetime Consequences By Carolyn Wells Highlight “I think there is a better-than-good chance that our behaviors will change as a result of this pandemic. I am currently creating a ledger and thinking about opportunities, not just for innovation, but for a better humanity.”
The Music of the Cave By Carolyn Wells Highlight “Though the team didn’t find the metal library, Armstrong put the adventure ‘up there with the moon landing.'”
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