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Below, our favorite stories of the week. Kindle users, you can also get them as a Readlist. Sign up to receive this list free every Friday in your inbox. * * * 1. What Is Code? Paul Ford | Bloomberg Businessweek | June 11, 2015 | 152 minutes (38,000 words) Paul Ford and Bloomberg Businessweek collaborate on […]
Sheyna Gifford, mission physician for NASA’s sMars simulation, reflects on her year-and-a-day “off-planet,” six months in.
What can haunted houses and their history tell us about American history and culture? Writer Colin Dickey sets out across America to investigate America’s haunted spaces in order to uncover what their ghost stories say about who we were, are, and will be.
Stories about the importance and changing role of archiving—an oft-misunderstood or overlooked science.
Essayist Chloe Caldwell on the “sisters” we choose for ourselves, and her close relationship with her surrogate younger sister, Cheryl Strayed’s daughter Bobbi.
Dan Ariely on building an understanding of how humans behave from the ground up.
How women writers and artists, from Virginia Woolf to Sophie Calle, found inspiration and freedom by navigating cities on foot.
Five centuries after Thomas More’s classic was first published, we still dabble in perfect-world-building.
Charleston’s—and our nation’s—systemic racism, through the lens of the Dylann Roof trial.
Why does it often take decades, even centuries, for work by women to be “discovered” and appreciated?
