Germany’s Black Forest faces a future of transformation. So do the people who have lived there for centuries.
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Best of 2024: All Our Number Five Story Picks
Every story that appeared in the number five slot in our Weekly Top 5, all in one place.
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What Can Covid-19 Teach Us About the Mysteries of Smell?
“What exactly was happening inside patients to make their sense of smell disappear in such an unusual way? Could Covid-related smell loss teach us anything new about how the virus worked? Or about how we did?”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
“Good teachers teach students how to find the pattern, and how to find the deviance: how to see that different things are actually the same thing, or, sometimes, that what look like the same things are in fact different. I want my students to know what I hope other people are also teaching my children: […]
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The Last Two Northern White Rhinos On Earth
“What will we lose when Najin and Fatu die?”
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Best of 2025: The Most Popular Editors’ Picks of the Year
These audience hits were the most-viewed picks on our site in 2025.
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By All Measures
Our problems are too vast, our distance from them too great. How do we navigate our derangement of scale?
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The 17 Minutes That Changed America
“For the briefest of windows, September 11, 2001, wasn’t yet a calamity but merely a strange accident. And that pivotal span forever altered the way we look at disasters, at the sky, and at one another.”
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For the Love of Wordle: A Reading List on Puzzles and Games
Seven longreads on the communal pastime of puzzles, games, and crosswords.
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George Bell Served 24 Years in Prison for a Crime He Didn’t Commit. Now He’s Learning to Live Again.
“After a quarter century behind bars, he was exonerated for the 1996 crime and received the largest payout ever from New York City. But money can’t buy back all that time.”
