The Farmer Trying to Save Italy’s Ancient Olive Trees

“A fast-spreading bacteria could cause an olive-oil apocalypse.”

Source: Atlas Obscura
Published: Apr 29, 2021
Length: 8 minutes (2,108 words)

“They Want Us to Disappear”

“Myanmar’s coup threatens to wipe out a generation of vloggers, influencers and tech entrepreneurs.”

Source: Rest of World
Published: May 11, 2021
Length: 14 minutes (3,652 words)

Teshuvah

“For Jews to tell Palestinians that peace requires them to forget the Nakba is grotesque. In our bones, Jews know that when you tell a people to forget its past you are not proposing peace. You are proposing extinction.”

Source: Jewish Currents
Published: May 11, 2021
Length: 26 minutes (6,500 words)

The Making of Reluctant Activists

“A police shooting in a hospital forces one family to rethink American justice.”

Published: May 10, 2021
Length: 27 minutes (6,800 words)

The First Rule of Bite Club? Talk About It.

“The odds of being attacked by a shark are less than one in 11 million, which makes it nearly impossible to find people to turn to when you become that one. Enter a support group of survivors called the Bite Club—the most exclusive club nobody wants to join.”

Source: Outside
Published: May 10, 2021
Length: 18 minutes (4,500 words)

Philosophy with Children

“Curious about aspects of the world that most adults take for granted, children demonstrate a seemingly instinctive capacity to ponder the most basic elements of life and society.”

Source: Aeon
Published: May 10, 2021
Length: 13 minutes (3,400 words)

That Time Hitler’s Girlfriend Visited Iceland and the British Invaded

“The location of this small island nation, along with its people and economy, played an unexpected and crucial role in the outcome of the Second World War.”

Source: Hakai Magazine
Published: May 11, 2021
Length: 18 minutes (4,500 words)

Narcos and Necromancy: Turf Wars and Black Magic in Colombia

“The drug gangs that are waging war in the Latin American country rely on a surprising ritual to protect them from harm: a witch’s incantation.”

Source: The Telegraph
Published: Mar 5, 2021
Length: 14 minutes (3,528 words)

Has an Old Soviet Mystery at Last Been Solved?

“The victims’ families were left deeply dissatisfied. Many of them wrote to officials, including Khrushchev, demanding a more thorough investigation. But nothing more was done, and the mysterious deaths of the nine skiers subsided into relative obscurity.”

Source: The New Yorker
Published: May 10, 2021
Length: 22 minutes (5,559 words)

A Marine special operator’s fragmented legacy: Blast, impact, trauma, and everything that comes after

“Traumatic brain injury is an ‘invisible wound’ I’ve suffered 17 times.”

Source: Task & Purpose
Published: May 7, 2021
Length: 17 minutes (4,272 words)