Introducing an excerpt from Brian Laidlaw.
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Our Top 5: Cultivated Meat, Scammers, and More
Three favorite five-star reads and our Top 5.
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A Lifelong Apprenticeship
When it comes to her career, Rachel Hartigan is figuring it out as she goes along.
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Our Top 5: Surrogate Babies, Red Wolves, Monarch Butterflies
In this edition:
ㆍTriplets, unclaimed
ㆍDeath, unreported
ㆍDe-extinction, disputed
ㆍChildren, ferried
ㆍButterflies, tracked
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Ice Cream, with a Swirl of History
The humble dessert’s surprising role in war, organized crime, and more.
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How Words Give Shape to Legacies
New York Times writer Sam Roberts on the art of the obituary.
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A Top 5 to Tune In To
Our Top 5 Longreads of the Week: War stories, new colors, and the joy in getting hands on in art and gardening.
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The Curious Path to Psychedelic Toads
Introducing an excerpt from “The Ego Trip.”
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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.