How One Artist Publicly Dealt With the Aftermath of Her Rape By Aaron Gilbreath For one woman, holding her employer accountable meant painting the story of her rape on a billboard above a busy LA freeway.
To Protect Children from Sexual Abuse, the Catholic Church Must Eliminate the Clergy By Aaron Gilbreath One ex-priest shows how the clergy lies at the root of the Catholic Church’s problems.
No Surgery Can Fix a Self-Defeating World View By Krista Stevens Brick had gotten a new jaw, nose, and cheekbones from a surgeon in California, costing him around $30,000, and still he was furious at women and the world.
The Great Cannabis Experiment: Ian Brown on Growing Your Own Weed By Krista Stevens Weed? Turns out it’s tricky to grow your own.
Optimizing Meat 2.0 By Aaron Gilbreath Can Impossible Foods’ meat facsimiles save us from our carnivorous appetites?
The Ways of a Wandering Spirit By Aaron Gilbreath For many of us, road trips are also trips through the self.
‘Someone Took Care to Get it Right’: The Birds of the Seven Kingdoms By Krista Stevens On the delightfully nerdy role of birds and bird calls in Game of Thrones.
From the Sewer to the Syringe By Katie Kosma Biomedical researchers find remedies for antibiotic-resistant infections in grody places.
Why Can’t California Public Schools Quit Teaching a Eurocentric Version of State History? By Aaron Gilbreath Despite decades of effort, activists are still trying to get California public schools to teach an accurate history of the state’s indigenous people and the cruelties of European settlement.
‘Buried in the Cowboy Way, with His Tail to the Wind’ By Krista Stevens “There was no chance I was going to ask him to make another winter, but as long as he was hobbling to his golf course and chortling to me each morning, it seemed too early to end his life.”
Learning About Love from Strangers By Aaron Gilbreath There are the marks lovers leave on trees and rocks, and the marks lovers leave on each other.
Take Two Stem Cell Injections and Don’t Call Me Until After I Cash Your $10,000 Cheque By Krista Stevens What don’t these stem cell snake-oil salespeople have? Any science to prove their claims or any scruples about preying on the vulnerable.
The Vital and Surprising Role of Driftwood By Krista Stevens Driftwood provides the necessary habitat and shelter that feeds a raft of marine life all the way up the food chain.
The Mysterious Disappearance of Sam Sayers By Krista Stevens They’ve spent 8,000 hours searching for Sam Sayers.
A Mountain and a Range of Memories By Krista Stevens “After Lathrop died, I could not bring myself to delete his phone number.”
Canada’s Breeding Ground for Hate By Aaron Gilbreath How Canada’s new, educated, organized far-right has been using a video game app to try to influence mainstream politics and create a white ethno-state.
Taking Cents, Making Sense of a Broken Family By Katie Kosma Sari Botton turns to petty – incredibly petty – theft after her family life hits the fan.
Did One Young Scientist Discover the Paleontology Pot of Gold? By Aaron Gilbreath Answers to some of paleontology’s most frustrating questions might lay in the dirt in North Dakota, but can the scientist who discovered them be believed?
You May Not Have Needed That Root Canal By Katie Kosma Dentistry doesn’t adhere to the same research and practice protocols of the medical field. This separation allows for a slew of unnecessary procedures and predatory pricing.
When Your Doctor is Also an Opioid Addict By Krista Stevens How one doctor beat his addiction to start helping members of his West Virginia community to do the same.
The Difficult Case for Assisted Plant Migration By Aaron Gilbreath To protect them from climate change, concerned citizens are moving clones of California’s ancient sequoias to Oregon in a process known as assisted migration, but should they?
Living Off the Grid in California’s Coastal Waters By Aaron Gilbreath Living off the grid isn’t just for landlubbers.
‘There Are Things You See With Your Body’ By Krista Stevens “Stepping away, I feel something evaporate, a quantum of my soul, perhaps, burning up on contact.”
Where the Men are Scarier than the Minefield on the Mountain By Krista Stevens “No longer should women feel weak.”
‘Writers tell’: The Devastating Contrasts in Life, Death, and West Virginia By Krista Stevens “Twelve years later, I birthed my son on my sister’s death day.”
Racism in Romance, or Why Is the Duke Always White By Michelle Weber White people: how many people still think “Fabio!” when they hear “romance novel,” raise your hands. Thought so.
This Is Why No One Answers the Phone Anymore By Michelle Weber Robocalls are a scourge, and it’s only a matter of time before the technology learns to spoof your mother’s voice.
Zuckerberg’s Trash Is a Subculture’s Treasure By Aaron Gilbreath An entire subculture of Bay Area residents survives by reselling wealthy residents’ trash.