Scotland’s Seaweed Showdown

The fight over a proposal to harvest kelp on an industrial level off the Scottish coast is about the survival of rich ecosystems we don’t know enough about — and the survival of local identity.

Source: Hakai Magazine
Published: Mar 17, 2020
Length: 12 minutes (3,241 words)

Why All the Warby Parker Clones Are Now Imploding

Direct-to-Consumer business are very appealing to customers and investors, but it’s challenging to make the DTC model economically viable.

Source: Medium
Published: Mar 9, 2020
Length: 13 minutes (3,460 words)

The Voice Keepers

“In the recordings of the Voice-O-Graph, two collectors discover an intimate sonic history.”

Source: The Believer
Published: Apr 1, 2020
Length: 32 minutes (8,206 words)

Why You Should Ignore All That Coronavirus-Inspired Productivity Pressure

Our old work routines cannot carry us through self-quarantine to a time when life will resume as normal, because pandemic has irrevocably changed the world we wish to return to. Instead of working through this, work on adjusting pyschogically first.

Published: Mar 27, 2020
Length: 6 minutes (1,692 words)

Fathers Sway above It All

“My mother’s absence in my life has always haunted me more than my father’s abuse, which is why I suppose I wrote a novel about a mother leaving a daughter.”

Published: Apr 1, 2020
Length: 12 minutes (3,022 words)

The Baller

Weary and frightened by the scary science she encounters on the climate beat, journalist Audrey Gray finds hope in the form of octogenarian Ed Mazria, a former basketball player turned architect turned climate evangelist, who has an actionable plan.

Published: Apr 1, 2020
Length: 21 minutes (5,492 words)

My Disabled Son’s Amazing Gaming Life in the World of Warcraft

Every year since Mats’ death in 2014, the World of Warcraft guild Starlight has held a memorial to share memories of their comrade, someone they never met in real life.

Source: BBC
Published: Feb 7, 2020
Length: 14 minutes (3,567 words)

If I Wrote a Coronavirus Episode

“Tina Fey, Mike Schur, and 35 more TV writers on what their characters would do in a pandemic.”

Source: Vulture
Published: Apr 2, 2020
Length: 27 minutes (6,812 words)

“When Can We Really Rest?”

More migrants than ever are crossing the Colombia-Panama border to reach the U.S. Five days inside the Darién Gap, one of the most dangerous journeys in the world.

Published: Apr 2, 2020
Length: 30 minutes (7,500 words)

Greta’s World

“How one Swedish teenager armed with a homemade sign ignited a crusade and became the leader of a movement.”

Source: Rolling Stone
Published: Mar 26, 2020
Length: 13 minutes (3,290 words)