Nature Is Medicine. But What’s the Right Dose?

“Their tagline is ‘delivering technology to assess and promote nature exposure,’ and their initial vision was an app that would keep track of how much time you spend in natural environments.”

Source: Outside
Published: Sep 14, 2021
Length: 13 minutes (3,277 words)

To Be a Field of Poppies

“The elegant science of turning cadavers into compost.”

Author: Lisa Wells
Published: Sep 20, 2021
Length: 24 minutes (6,064 words)

Beyond Britney

“For people under guardianship, the system can be dehumanizing, dangerous, and even deadly. For the professionals—who can control hundreds of people at a time—it can be very profitable.” (This is the first installment in an investigative series.)

Source: BuzzFeed News
Published: Sep 17, 2021
Length: 26 minutes (6,500 words)

Dollhouse of Horrors

“I don’t control anything in the real world. But in my dollhouse, I own everything. I make the horrors happen. I am the one.”

Source: Oxford American
Published: Aug 31, 2021
Length: 19 minutes (4,784 words)

One Hiker’s Peak of Desperation

“He got lost climbing a 13,000-foot mountain. Could his family, his friends and a bartender named Destiny save his life?”

Published: Sep 17, 2021
Length: 25 minutes (6,312 words)

On Our Knees

“What the history of a gesture can tell us about Black creative power.”

Published: Sep 7, 2021
Length: 27 minutes (6,900 words)

A New Nurse Struggles to Save Patients in a New COVID Surge

“Cases peaked, then fell, then rose again. ‘It is so much worse this time.'”

Published: Sep 16, 2021
Length: 7 minutes (1,757 words)

From Lagos to Winchester: How a Divisive Nigerian Pastor Built a Global Following

“Watching the disciples pay their last respects, it struck me how even for the most devoted and grief-stricken, Joshua’s death might be experienced, in part, as a liberation.”

Source: The Guardian
Published: Sep 9, 2021
Length: 22 minutes (5,677 words)

Courtney’s Story

“How do you survive when life as you know it is falling apart? What do you do when it seems like every institution, nearly every person in a state of more than 11 million people, and even a member of your own family doesn’t want to help you? Courtney Smith learned how.”

Source: Defector
Published: Sep 13, 2021
Length: 55 minutes (13,800 words)

Ebooks Are an Abomination

“Agreeing that books are a thing you read is easy enough. But what it means to read, what the experience of reading requires and entails, and what makes it pleasurable or not, is not so easy to pin down.”

Author: Ian Bogost
Source: The Atlantic
Published: Sep 14, 2021
Length: 13 minutes (3,328 words)