The Incalculable Cost of Cheap Chicken—and the Hidden Industry That Shoulders It

“The exact number of COVID-19 deaths connected to poultry plants may never be known, but one thing is clear: the Latinx population in North Carolina has been hit hard by the pandemic.”

Published: Jul 20, 2021
Length: 27 minutes (6,881 words)

Survivor: Salmon Edition

“If we can’t find a way to slow the pace of climate change and give Pacific salmon a chance to adapt to the brave new world of the Anthropocene, then we might all have to get used to the idea of fewer Pacific salmon species in the world.”

 

 

 

Source: Hakai Magazine
Published: Jul 6, 2021
Length: 20 minutes (5,012 words)

Who Wants To Be a Cop?

Reporter Lane DeGregory and photographer John Pendygraft follow a recent cohort of recruits at the St. Petersburg College’s Law Enforcement Academy.

Source: Tampa Bay Times
Published: Jul 11, 2021

Smell You Later: The Weird Science of How Sweat Attracts

“It’s strong reactions like mine to jar fifteen that rouse belief in human sex pheromones, odorous chemicals that catalyze copulation. Insects have them, amphibians have them, mammals have them, so why wouldn’t we?”

 

 

Source: The Walrus
Published: Jul 14, 2021
Length: 19 minutes (4,999 words)

Where I Was From

“Where I am from it is like this: We rebuild after hurricanes as it has always been done. We know we will do it again. As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be: work without end.”

Source: Oxford American
Published: Jun 1, 2021
Length: 7 minutes (1,913 words)

A People’s History of Black Twitter, Part I

“We make spaces out of spaces where we were not intended to be. That’s what we do.” This is the first installment in a three-part oral history series on Black Twitter.

Source: Wired
Published: Jul 15, 2021
Length: 13 minutes (3,399 words)

On the Trail of a Mysterious, Pseudonymous Author

“Late last spring, a strange, beguiling novel began arriving, in installments, in the mail. Who had written it?”

Author: Adam Dalva
Source: New Yorker
Published: Jul 15, 2021
Length: 7 minutes (1,979 words)

Life in the Stacks: A Love Letter to Browsing

“Algorithms are integral to how we find and consume art. But old-fashioned browsing still has its benefits.”

Source: The Walrus
Published: Jul 24, 2021
Length: 8 minutes (2,032 words)

Why Can’t We Be Friends

“Podcasts and other forms of ‘parasocial’ media reframe friendship as monetized self-care.

Source: Real Life Mag
Published: Jul 1, 2021
Length: 12 minutes (3,068 words)

The Truth Behind The Amazon Mystery Seeds

“What are the odds that, last summer, two completely different scenarios led to a simultaneous surge in the same weird-looking Chinese seed packages arriving at American homes?”

 

 

Source: The Atlantic
Published: Jul 15, 2021
Length: 30 minutes (7,671 words)