Alison Kinney visits a Stony Brook University laboratory where the physical and emotional effects of social rejection are studied, and becomes a subject herself.
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Yentl Syndrome: A Deadly Data Bias Against Women
The science of medicine is based on male bodies, but researchers are beginning to realize how vastly the symptoms of disease differ between the sexes — and how much danger women are in.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Brent Cunningham, CJ Hauser, Carla Bruce-Eddings, Caroline Rothstein, and Lisa Grossman.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Reefer Madness 2.0: What Marijuana Science Says, and Doesn’t Say
Fear-mongering through data (or a lack thereof): on Alex Berenson, Malcolm Gladwell, and “what happens when tidy narratives outrun the science.”
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The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Orchids
Sometimes a flower is just a flower, and sometimes it’s a powerful vehicle for giving free rein to our worst colonialist and misogynist impulses.
Posted inNonfiction
The Misconception of the Wild
Leo Schwartz finds out what lessons can be learned from the burned-out Oregon backcountry.
Posted inArts & Culture, Highlight, Quote Posts, Quotes
Apocalypse Now? Now? How About Now?
“And yet I am also, in the darkest corners of my heart, a doomsday prepper myself.”
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We Still Don’t Know How to Navigate the Cultural Legacy of Eugenics
From abortion to immigration, a long-debunked scientific movement still casts long, confusing shadows over our most fraught debates.
Posted inHighlight, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes, Science & Nature
Seagulls Who Eat People Food Poop People Food on Protected Lands
Fast food is killing the human world. Now it could be killing California gulls’ protected island habitat.
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Longreads Best of 2018: Science and Technology
We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here is the best in science and tech.
