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Power Failure: On Landscape and Abandonment
“I wanted to make sense of another kind of imbalance within the landscape of central Ohio: that between corporate control and ordinary people; between economic development and nature; and, most acutely in a season of drought, between electricity-hungry data centers and something as necessary for human survival as a field of crops.”
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Hearts and Brains
“Humans always end up with clogged arteries, right? That’s not what the lives of the Tsimane in the Amazon basin tell us.”
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Memento Mori
“Surveillance is just one aspect of how a creepy gimmick has come to contend with eternity.”
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Bad Influence
“Can the legal system protect the vibe of a creator? And what if that vibe is basic?”
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Miracle in the Jungle
The race to find four children who survived a plane crash deep in the Amazon.
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How Bookshop.org Survives—and Thrives—in Amazon’s World
“Andy Hunter’s ecommerce platform was a pandemic hit. Now he’s on a mission to prove that small businesses can scale up without selling out.”
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Knock It Off!
“Getting copied is devastating—but not necessarily illegal. Who owns what in an era of unprecedented mass consumption?”
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What Happens to All the Stuff We Return?
“Online merchants changed the way we shop—and made ‘reverse logistics’ into a booming new industry.”
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What Happened to “Wirecutter”?
“Longtime fans have turned on the product-recommendation website. An evolving internet may be to blame.”
