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True Crime, Jersey Shore Style
How I (possibly) solved a cold case on my summer vacation.
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The Boy From Booker T.
Twelve years ago, journalism student Jeffrey McWhorter structured his senior project around a group of boys in East Austin’s Booker T. Washington Terraces. He photographed them, interviewed them and their families, got to know them all. While those relationships began under the auspices of reportage, they lasted as a very real friendship, even after one […]
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Where the Tupelo Grows
“Gary noticed that she was “liking” his Facebook posts about bees and messaged her to ask if she’d be interested in helping him. She was, and things went so well that they were married in 2017. Now she manages their honey and home-building businesses. They had a surge in rebuilding demand after Hurricane Michael, and […]
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Interspecies Communication, An Ultra-Incredible Recovery, and Our Top 5
“From the mycelial ‘wood wide web’ to smart slime molds and political honeybees, science is demonstrating that humans don’t monopolize language or intelligence.” With advancements in artificial intelligence, scientists are learning more about the ways non-human species communicate with each other—and how they might communicate with us. In this week’s new reading list, “Wild Talk,” Sam […]
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Shifting Identity, Shamans, and the Week’s Top 5
“So long as there are nations, there will be people trying to get out of them, tracking ceaselessly from one to the other while maybe wishing they could belong to the world instead.” In making a cross-country move recently, I realized that I can be a different person in a new place. There’s a certain […]
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‘No Single Machine Should Be Able to Control So Many People’
Can we survive the social web?
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Pit Viper Made the Perfect Sunglasses. Then the Alt-Right Fell in Love With Them
“Here’s how the company fought to get its identity back from extremists.”
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Rabbit Holes Aplenty and the Week’s Top 5
“What could have fizzled out as a weekend infatuation turned into a full-blown obsession, an online epic quest. After the festival, I decided that a dulcimer was something I really needed, but I never just need things; I also crave learning about them deeply from the people who already know.” Who among us has never fallen into […]
