Category: Highlight

How do you love a place that is sinking?

More than a century before GoPro, Thomas Stevens’ around-the-world bike ride vaulted first-person “sports porn” into the mainstream.

“I’m amazed at our human capacity to adapt to the unbearable. Almost anything can seem normal if it’s inflicted on us long enough.”

Why it’s important to give things a sniff.

Think it’s time to get off social media? Then this is the reading list for you.

I am of that bit of earth. So I will not let it go. I show up in the small ways I can, which is talking to people, which is why I tell this to you.

“I have sat inside her rib cage. And yet I know nothing about her.”

From fantasylands to unique cartographers (including one that’s non-human), here are five stories about maps.

On the fascinating world of London real estate.

North Korea hacked him. Things got personal.

And he “…stopped in his tracks, wondering what in the world two little girls were doing alone in a canoe speeding toward the Falls, apparently oarless.”

“But perhaps it’s neither here nor there how we think about death. Perhaps the work that must be done is in how we think about life.”

Another beauty of endurance is that it is happening at all times. It is everywhere we look. To see someone, anyone, in this world is to witness someone engaged in a feat of endurance.

These essays and features across science, food, and sports are worth a read.

Six stories on the immediate and ongoing aftermath of the attacks that took place on September 11th, 2001.

“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.””

“Instead of swiping, the strategy is wiping: namely, one’s perspiration onto a cotton pad.”

“We took turns sitting beside my dad and holding his hand. On the TV in the living room, the Tour raced.”

Campaigners want circus elephants placed in specially built sanctuaries. But their owners insist being separated from their human “families” would be traumatic.

“There’s another population of people who came and never left: those freed by COVID from cubicles and work commutes.”

“He couldn’t remember coming here, or going anywhere. He looked down at himself. With a writhe of horror, he found he couldn’t even remember getting dressed. His clothes were unfamiliar.”

One hundred years later, journalists look back on the massacre of “Black Wall Street.”

The full story behind the scoop to interview Princess Diana has remained hidden for a quarter of a century — until now.

“The rest of my life will always be entwined with rheumatoid arthritis. But it’s my choice to also be something more, to not feel sick, to still find those shadows of a dancer, which is to say tiny flecks of magic, within me.”

One man’s quest to find his son lays bare the reality of Palestinian life under Israeli rule.

Has the 60-year-old mystery surrounding the deaths of ten skiers finally been solved?

“Peering in, I see that last week’s eggs are now chicks. Tiny bright-yellow beaks, mouths opening and closing silently. This is the magic.”

The inside story of author Blake Bailey’s grooming of middle-school girls.

“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.”

“When I moved to Billtown, I worried most about whether fracking tainted groundwater. By the time I left the area, my biggest concern was whether the liberty granted to citizens to lease their land, or to otherwise act in ways that limits others’ access to environmental goods, taints democracy.”