Detective Fitbit By Carolyn Wells Can Fitbit data help to convict the alleged perpetrator of a brutal murder?
How a Mom Penetrated the Pen to Hack the Warden’s Computer By Krista Stevens Rita Strand, age 58, posed as a health inspector and got unrestricted access to South Dakota prison.
The Hate Is Coming From Inside the House By Michelle Weber The claws of diet culture dig in early, and they dig in deep.
Margery Kempe: Patron Saint of Writing Moms By Krista Stevens “Having children has simultaneously fried my brain and made it sharper and more focused.”
Why Do Seventh-Day Adventists Live Longer Than Most Americans? By Aaron Gilbreath This conservative Christian sect takes the Bible’s messages about the body very seriously. Even non-Christians can learn a lot from their healthy lifestyle.
How Do You Live In a Body That Doesn’t Feel Like Yours? If You Have No Choice, You Just Do. By Michelle Weber Paraic O’Donnell chronicles the progression of his MS with clarity, beauty, wit, and no small amount of sadness. Picking the most striking paragraph in this essay full of them is a fool’s errand.
How a Hurricane’s Trailing Winds Retold Willie Earle’s 1947 Mass Lynching By Krista Stevens “Even with a preponderance of evidence and testimonies, every man on trial got away with murder. This fact was not front-page news but tucked beneath odd stories called ‘Flashes of Life.'”
This Story About Coronavirus Is Both Deeply Alarming and Deeply Calming By Michelle Weber Just read it. And go wash your hands.
The Decline and Not-Quite-Instagrammable Fall of a Design Startup By Ben Huberman When an interior-design startup collapses, no filter can hide the ugly truth.
Sharing Our Stories Was Supposed to Dispel Our Shame By Sari Botton Emily Gould reconsiders the likelihood of women’s first-person writing bringing about change.
Apocalypse Now? Now? How About Now? By Krista Stevens “And yet I am also, in the darkest corners of my heart, a doomsday prepper myself.”
‘What’s this guy doing loose in Malheur County?’ By Michelle Weber He faked an insanity defense, got out, and immediately committed another crime, and this time people are dead. He’s going to plead insanity again.
Can Mickey Mouse Coexist with Bears, Panthers, and Alligators? By Krista Stevens “The treasures of wild Florida — landscapes, waterways, flora, and fauna — will soon disappear without drastic efforts to save them.”
Don’t Pretend Like You Don’t Love Wikipedia By Michelle Weber Without it, you’d have to actually, y’know, be productive.
I Have No Idea What You Corporate People Are Talking About By Aaron Gilbreath Before I can parallel-path that project and route it back to you, you’ll need to explain what you’re asking in actual English, please.
Novelist Charles Portis Was a True Original By Aaron Gilbreath Every Portis fan has a different favorite passage from his novels, but they agree on one thing: no one wrote like Portis.
The Misogyny Is the Point By Michelle Weber I’m proud to be an American, where at least I know I’m free… to be reduced to a uterus and some boobs! Good times.
Making Periods Green To Topple Tampax By Carolyn Wells Will a pain-relieving, CBD-infused, biodegradable cotton tampon be enough to beat Tampax?
Closing the Loop on Diabetes By Carolyn Wells Open source code could be the key to transforming the life of diabetics.
When It’s Time to Tell By Aaron Gilbreath The silence that once protected one woman from memories of her abusive ex-boyfriend and further abuse was now the silence she needed to free herself from.
Meet the 14-Year-Old Dancer Who Invented The Renegade By Mark Armstrong A ninth grader’s creation explodes on TikTok, without acknowledgement or credit.
Finding Answers about Life and Love in the Mountain Death Zone By Krista Stevens “There’s no reflective surfaces when you’re climbing. You’re just who you are.”
Black America Unwittingly Provided the Soundtrack to Its Own Displacement By Aaron Gilbreath American music may be Black music, but it has now become the music of displacement.
How the US Spied on Allies and Adversaries Alike By Krista Stevens The “United States and its allies exploited other nations’ gullibility for years, taking their money and stealing their secrets.”
When Your Father Recruits You for a Life of Crime By Krista Stevens Archie Moretti believed he could steal and get away with it. It’d just take a little nepotism.
What If This Is It: Will Huey Lewis Sing Again? By Krista Stevens ‘The music went away slowly and then all at once. So what if it never comes back? “I haven’t allowed myself to go there yet,” Huey says, worry in his voice.’
The Most Common Airbnb Scams: A Roundup By Krista Stevens “…these emails paint a portrait of a platform whose creators are fundamentally unable to track what goes on within it, and point to easily exploitable loopholes that scammers have steamed their way through by the truckload.”
Closure in Service of Grief: the Septuagenarian Couple Who Locate Bodies Under Water By Krista Stevens “What Gene and Sandy offer is not the hope of rescue, but the solace of finality. They have spent years crisscrossing North America in the service of grief.”
Why Amanda Fortini Won’t Soon Be Leaving Las Vegas By Krista Stevens “Las Vegas is a place about which people have ideas. They have thoughts and generalizations, takes and counter-takes, most of them detached from any genuine experience and uninformed by any concrete reality.”
Sit Back, Relax, and Try Not To Think About the Hole We’re Making In Your Skull By Michelle Weber You can understand how the dura mater connects to the arachnoid mater, but that doesn’t mean you understand the mind.