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What Miyazaki’s Heroines Taught Me About My Mixed-Race Identity
On the wonder and strangeness of occupying a perpetually in-between space.
Posted inQuotes, Science & Nature
The Dream of a Perfect Android
Hiroshi Ishiguro has spent his career creating robots. But does he know enough about humans to make them lifelike?
Posted inNonfiction
Longreads Best of 2018: Crime Reporting
We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here is the best in crime reporting.
Posted inCurrent Events, Highlight, Nonfiction, Quotes, Science & Nature
Will Big Pharma Help Save Some of the Oldest Marine Life on Earth?
To save threatened shorebirds, one pharmaceutical biologist had to figure out how to save the crabs they depend on.
Posted inReading List, Unapologetic Women
Labor Pains: A Reading List
No one ever said expelling a tiny human our of your body would be easy — or if they did, they shouldn’t have.
Posted inCulture, Food, Nonfiction, Quotes
A Pilgrimage to MSG Mecca
A fan of MSG visits the world’s largest producer of this contentious flavor-enhancing agent.
Posted inNonfiction
How Google Discovered the Value of Surveillance
In 2002, still reeling from the dot-com crash, Google realized they’d been harvesting a very valuable raw material — your behavior.
Posted inBooks, Current Events, Fiction, Story
A Citizen Is Obliged To Listen
When a refugee flees to another country and claims asylum, she is, in effect, petitioning the state to listen to her story.
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The Japanese Origins of Modern Fine Dining
How kaiseki — Japan’s formal dining tradition — became a major (though often unacknowledged) influence on modern haute cuisine.
