Evolution and Chill: Survival Is No Longer Just About Competition By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Scientists are taking a second look at the effect of cooperation on evolution.
Yes, We Do Have Bananas Today (For the Bargain Price of $17) By Michelle Weber Highlight For Roads & Kingdoms, Bianca Bosker explores the world of high-end Japanese fruit: $500 strawberries and $27,000 melons.
Month 13: What Happens After the Year-Long Syrian Refugee Sponsorship Ends? By Krista Stevens Highlight When Canadians privately sponsor a Syrian refugee family, the agreement lasts one year. What happens at month 13?
Treating the Insects of the Mind By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight In STAT, Eric Boodman examines delusional parasitosis, a psychiatric condition neither science nor medicine understand much about.
We’re Living in the Golden Age of the Corporate Takedown By Erin Blakemore Reading List Why do we love reading about CEOs behaving badly? Perhaps it’s because we identify with their exhausted workers.
Seven Stories About the Science Behind Fast Food By Matt Giles Reading List Stories about how fast food co-opted science and technology to create more craveable products.
The Immigration-Obsessed, Polarized, Garbage-Fire Election of 1800 By Longreads Feature A madman versus a crook? Unexpected twists? Fake news? Welcome to the election of 1800.
Revisiting the History of the Oakland Raiders Courtesy of Hunter S. Thompson By Matt Giles Commentary The Oakland Raiders are moving to Las Vegas, so let’s remember when Hunter S. Thompson tried to embed with the NFL’s strangest team.
20 Years of Talking in Maths and Buzzing Like a Fridge By Michelle Weber Highlight Radiohead’s OK Computer is 20 years old this year, and Anwen Crawford pens a lovely review-slash-analysis-slash-ode to this enduring album.
March Madness Has Its Own ‘Heidi Game’ By Matt Giles Commentary The similarities between this Elite Eight snafu and the infamous Heidi game are glaring.
Why Don’t You Just Get One of Those Creative Jobs? By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight At The Paris Review, writer and creative director Glenn O’Brien narrates the comic struggle of artists who decide to go into advertising.
What Does It Mean to Be Jewish in Trump’s America? By Sari Botton Highlight At Vice, Eve Peyser belatedly embraces her Jewish identity after watching a rise in antisemitism ushered in by the new administration.
‘Every Watch Geek Has an Origin Story’ By Sari Botton Highlight Anxious about politics, Gary Shteyngart finds calm in the minutiae of wristwatches in this essay from The New Yorker.
Want To See a Polar Bear? Just Follow the Bones By Michelle Weber Highlight In one Alaskan town, the bone pile is a bounty for hungry polar bears and enterprising tour guides.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Amy Wallace, Katherine Laidlaw, Lisa Miller, Porochista Khakpour, and Lauren Schwartzberg.
The Rules For Being John Hinckley By Michelle Weber Highlight In a fascinating New York magazine profile of John Hinckley, recently released, writer Lisa Miller lays out the conditions of his freedom.
Remembering Jerry Krause, Architect Behind the Greatest NBA Team Ever Assembled By Matt Giles Commentary Jerry Krause had his faults, but that shouldn’t diminish his legacy.
I Can Totally Believe It’s Actually Butter! By Michelle Weber Highlight Libby Copeland talks to butter aficionado and food writer Elaine Khosrova about the history of butter and how to savor it. But is it good for us or not?
The Sense of an Endling By Michelle Legro Feature Scientists closely monitor the last member of a species. Is there space in a creature’s DNA to consider the prospect of no tomorrow?
A Culinary Legend’s Next Fight By unforgettablepaula Feature Paula Wolfert’s groundbreaking cookbooks changed the way we eat. An Alzheimer’s diagnosis changed her life, but not her outlook.
Stories of Immigration as Protest: Letters to Donald Trump By Krista Stevens Highlight Barbara Zitwer, Colm Tóibín, Elham Manea, Linda Coverdale, Kyung-sook Shin, and Anne Landsman share their stories of immigration to protest Donald Trump’s Muslim Ban.
You Just Can’t Find a Good Deal in Kreuzlingen These Days By Michelle Weber Highlight In Roads & Kingdoms, Milan Gagnon tells the stories of Kreuzlingen, Switzerland, and Konstanz, Germany — one city full of empty storefronts, and the other full of empty souls.
‘Smoking freebase has pretty much been my job for the past year.’ By Michelle Weber Highlight In the New Yorker, Naomi Fry writes about Cat Marnell’s new memoir in a piece that’s part review, part analysis of women’s addiction stories.
Empathy, Schmempathy. By Pam Mandel Highlight “Stronger Together,” the Clinton-campaign slogan, sounded more like an invitation to join a food co-op than a call to arms.
Moved by Kim By Seth Davis Branitz Feature Seth Davis Branitz had an awful suspicion he’d feel relieved when, some day, his very troubled brother would pass. He had no idea about the other ends it would rapidly bring with it.
Roger Federer is Brilliant, But Don’t Ever Forget About Serena Williams By Mike Dang Highlight It’s always polarizing when you’re trying to designate a single athlete as the “Greatest of All Time.”
On Mastery: Learning Kyudo — One of Japan’s Oldest and Most Respected Martial Arts By Krista Stevens Highlight After a trip to Japan to improve her archery skills, Leigh Ann Henion realizes that achievement with the bow and arrow comes only after mastering one’s mind.
A Scam Artist’s Sham Charity Stole Millions from Unsuspecting Victims By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight The mystery of how a con man created a nonprofit to steal millions of dollars.
Peanut Butter and Jelly: The NBA’s Secret Addiction By Krista Stevens Highlight The secret sweet and salty comfort food that fuels the NBA? None other than the lowly, delicious, peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind By Michelle Weber Highlight Sam Kriss, in a post he calls his “magnum opus” in The Outline, explores the age-old warning not to stare directly at the sun.
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