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A Transgender-Military Reading List
Thousands of people in the U.S.’s all-volunteer military are transgender.
Posted inNonfiction
STAT: My Daughter’s MS Diagnosis and the Question My Doctors Couldn’t Answer
Is there a dietary treatment for multiple sclerosis? And if so, why is the medical establishment ignoring published academic research that started in the 1950s proving it?
Posted inNonfiction, Reading List
Salt, Sugar, Fat, Repeat: A Reading List on Restaurant Chains
On regionality, class, and culture, from Waffle House to the Cheesecake Factory.
Posted inNonfiction
I’ve Found Her
Photos of an elderly French stranger has one Canadian writer examining the threads that connect people across continents and generations.
Posted inNonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes
On the Brink of a Cure: An Innovative Immunologist’s Quest for an AIDS Vaccine
Louis Picker, an AIDS vaccine researcher in Portland, hopes to lay the groundwork for an HIV cure within the next two decades.
Posted inNonfiction, Reading List, Top 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Our favorite stories of the week, featuring, Outside, The Atlantic, Harper’s, Stanford Medicine, and The Walrus.
Posted inFood, Nonfiction, Reading List
Seven Stories About the Science Behind Fast Food
Stories about how fast food co-opted science and technology to create more craveable products.
Posted inNonfiction
The Red Zone: A Love Story
A severe form of PMS puts Chloe Caldwell’s new relationship to the test.
Posted inNonfiction, Story
STAT: My Daughter’s MS Diagnosis and the Question My Doctors Couldn’t Answer
Is there a dietary treatment for multiple sclerosis? And if so, why is the medical establishment ignoring published academic research that started in the 1950s proving it?
