“An unlikely statue has become a rich-person controversy for the ages. In the California desert, I found out why.”
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The Uncanniest Valley (and the Rest of Our Top 5)
In this edition: Concrete memories, grief science, captive cats, relentless pain, and myth meets reality.
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Your Data’s Strange Undersea Voyage
“The internet is a series of tubes. In the ocean.”
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Embracing Envinylmentalism
A look at the environmental cost of the booming vinyl record industry.
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Turf War
Seeing alternatives makes you realize how ubiquitous turfgrass is—though anyone who’s ever wrestled with their own Kentucky bluegrass doesn’t need to be reminded.
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Trapped in Silicon Valley’s Hidden Caste System
Sonia Paul explores the cloying nature of caste: proving it can follow you wherever you go and whoever you become. “Anonymous, self-identified Dalit tech workers kept their videos off as they described how they had lost jobs and faced casteist slurs. Residents from dominant-caste backgrounds spoke of witnessing bias in their communities and in the […]
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week we are sharing stories on gun violence, Silicon Valley in the ’90s, the ability of artificial intelligence, and the community of audiophiles.
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S’more! S’more!
“His artisanal marshmallows were the greatest. Then he tried to scale them.”
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Ingenious Librarians
“A group of 1970s campus librarians foresaw our world of distributed knowledge and research, and designed search tools for it.”
