The Invisible Addiction: Is It Time to Give Up Caffeine?

“It’s so pervasive that it’s easy to overlook the fact that to be caffeinated is not baseline consciousness but, in fact, an altered state. It just happens to be a state that virtually all of us share, rendering it invisible.”

Source: The Guardian
Published: Jul 6, 2021
Length: 15 minutes (3,952 words)

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“TallBear, a citizen of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate in South Dakota, says thinking about building healthy relations instead of solidifying an identity is a more ethical approach for those trying to make sense of their Indigenous ancestry.”

 

Source: Maisonneuve
Published: Jun 29, 2021
Length: 29 minutes (7,269 words)

Britney Spears’s Conservatorship Nightmare

“How the pop star’s father and a team of lawyers seized control of her life—and have held on to it for thirteen years.”

Source: The New Yorker
Published: Jul 3, 2021
Length: 44 minutes (11,150 words)

Hot Streak

Venus is similar to Earth in size and composition, but extreme conditions made it a hellscape. Devoted researchers want to know what caused the planets’ wildly divergent paths. Now they finally have their chance.

Source: Popular Science
Published: Jun 29, 2021
Length: 14 minutes (3,620 words)

How Twitter Can Ruin a Life

Isabel Fall’s story has been held up as an example of “cancel culture run amok.”

Source: Vox
Published: Jun 30, 2021
Length: 24 minutes (6,020 words)

Beijing Calling: Suspicion, Hope, and Resistance in the Chinese Rock Underground

“China has produced some of the most vital indie rock on the planet. But can the scene survive gentrification, government crackdowns, and a hit TV show?”

Source: Rolling Stone
Published: Jun 24, 2021
Length: 31 minutes (7,800 words)

Living Memory

“Who, then, are the chroniclers of Black lives in the pandemic?”

Published: Jun 23, 2021
Length: 20 minutes (5,158 words)

And Then There Were Twelve

“Climbing culture: we come to each other’s aid in times of need. Ethan and Lorne knew they had to stay and help. The four men hunkered down inside the schrund-cave. With each cup of tea they brewed, their spirits rose. They would make it through the night.”

Published: Dec 19, 2020
Length: 18 minutes (4,600 words)

My Dad’s Last Tour de France

“My dad gave me his hearty laugh and his boyish eyes, but he could also be stoic, gruff, and comically reserved with his emotions. He’d ask how my car was running, and I understood that he loved me. Watching the Tour together, I cherished that, though my dad had never competed, he understood the sport, and through it, he seemed to understand me.”

Author: Ian Dille
Source: Outside
Published: Jun 28, 2021
Length: 19 minutes (4,942 words)

First Passage

“A journey toward motherhood in the age of glacial loss.”

Source: Orion Magazine
Published: Jun 3, 2021
Length: 18 minutes (4,576 words)