The True Story of the White Island Eruption

” It was supposed to be a routine six-hour tour, including the highlight: a quick hike into the island’s otherworldly caldera. Then the volcano exploded. What happened next reveals troubling questions about the risks we’re willing to take when lives hang in the balance.”

Author: Alex Perry
Source: Outside
Published: Apr 15, 2020
Length: 34 minutes (8,610 words)

Dispatches From Food Service Workers Across the U.S.: ‘I’m Trying Not to Panic’

“I found out the secret was really not to make eye contact, because if I saw one of us start to tear up, it opened the floodgates for me.”

Source: Eater
Published: Apr 22, 2020
Length: 8 minutes (2,145 words)

‘Feasting on Fantasy’: My Month of Extreme Immersion in Disney+

“Proudest parenting moment of lockdown so far? When the six-year-old requested to watch Honey, I Shrunk the Kids for a second time. If that is the peak of my home-schooling efforts, which it undoubtedly is, I’ll take it.”

Source: The Guardian
Published: Apr 22, 2020
Length: 17 minutes (4,481 words)

The ‘Profoundly Radical’ Message of Earth Day’s First Organizer

A profile of Denis Hayes, an environmental advocate and lawyer who helped organize the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970.

Published: Apr 22, 2020
Length: 8 minutes (2,209 words)

Margaret Atwood’s Lockdown Diary: Life As An Eccentric Self-Isolationist

“How to make firelighters, combat squirrels and conduct a rubber chicken choir … the author shares practical tips from lockdown in Canada.”

Source: The Guardian
Published: Apr 18, 2020
Length: 6 minutes (1,686 words)

Grieving with Brahms

“There is enormous sadness in his work, a sadness that glows with understanding.”

Author: Alex Ross
Source: The New Yorker
Published: Apr 16, 2020
Length: 6 minutes (1,555 words)

The Bigamist’s Daughter

Robin Antalek considers the legacy of the man who abandoned her for another family and never looked back.

Source: Longreads
Published: Apr 22, 2020
Length: 18 minutes (4,599 words)

A Way Back

“E.O. Wilson’s big ideas for saving nature and humanity along with it.”

Published: Apr 21, 2020
Length: 25 minutes (6,276 words)

The Art of Balancing Immense Grief With a Rich Indoor Life

“What unites the two Americas — the sick and those who are staying home.”

Source: GEN
Published: Apr 17, 2020
Length: 7 minutes (1,756 words)

The Pandemic, Our Common Story

“Anna Badkhen was researching Eden – the origins of humanity in the Afar Triangle of East Africa – when coronavirus broke out across the world.”

Source: Granta
Published: Apr 16, 2020
Length: 19 minutes (4,780 words)