A friendly and charming hiker was known on the trail as “Mostly Harmless.” After his body was discovered in a tent in Florida, no one could figure out who he was.
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Bonded by Grief, Pain, and Loss
“Do you know what it means to have a wound that never heals?”
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Roxie Laybourne: the World’s First Forensic Ornithologist
“Having spent thousands of hours preparing thousands upon thousands of specimens, Laybourne had accumulated a library’s worth of knowledge about birds.”
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‘These Were His Mountains, After All’: Remembering One’s Father While Cycling in the Swiss Alps
James Jung thought he rode the winding narrow roads of the Alps to memorialize his dad. He was wrong.
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Who Gets a Vaccine?
We may not have a COVID-19 vaccine, but who will even get it when we do?
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“The Final Five Percent” Wins 2020 Science in Society Journalism Award
Congratulations to Tim Requarth, whose Longreads essay has won the 2020 award in the Longform Narratives category.
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Selling Fame
With the Cameo app, you can buy a video message from a celebrity — increasing in popularity since COVID-19, will this way of communicating become the new norm?
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‘It’s An iPad, Not An usPad’: Douglas Rushkoff on Digital Isolation
“There’s no Dropbox plan that will let us upload body and soul to the cloud. We are still here on the ground, with the same people and on the same planet we are being encouraged to leave behind.”
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Death as a Work of Art
“He tried to explain that the tomb was his final creative act, one that he would make with love, as he had made ceramics daily for the past forty-four years.”