At Aeon, Sheyna Gifford, mission physician for NASA’s HI-SEAS IV space exploration analogue, reflects on six months in a Mars simulator. When the six-person crew emerges on August 28th, 2016 — after a year and a day “off-planet” — they’ll have completed the longest NASA-funded Mars simulation in history.
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Alexandra Petri Is The Only Op-Ed Columnist America Needs Right Now
She is the light in the darkness.
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Space Art Propelled Scientific Exploration of the Cosmos—But Its Star is Fading Fast
The huge, hidden cost to severing the bond between art and science.
Posted inNonfiction, Story
Rebel Virgins and Desert Mothers
The radical women of early Christianity.
Posted inNonfiction, Reading List
The Care and Keeping of Notebooks: A Reading List
Six stories about notebooks and note-taking.
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The Best Longreads From Trump’s First 100 Days
After an exhausting first few weeks, the media dug in for the long fight ahead.
Posted inNonfiction, Reading List
The Care and Keeping of Notebooks: A Reading List
Six stories about notebooks and note-taking.
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Researching Our Martian Heritage
In Nautilus, Tim Folger writes about how scientist are still debating whether organic and inorganic materials found on Martian meteorite ALH84001 contain evidence that life existed on Mars before it existed on Earth. If it did, then life could have spread to Earth from meteorites, which could make human beings ─ and other Earthly life ─ […]
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The First Person on Mars
“Evghenia Is on Mars” is a plot-rich fantasy Twitter account purportedly run by a female scientist delivering dispatches from Mars in 140-character bursts. In an unlikely but thoroughly wonderful essay, Smarsh uses Evghenia’s story as a jumping-off point to interrogate her own life, and the strange parallels in both their journeys.
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Longreads Best of 2016: Our 25 Most Popular Exclusives of the Year
The most popular stories published on Longreads this year.
