“Standard construction can be slow, costly, and inefficient. Machines might do it better.”
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40 Acres and a Lie
“We compiled Reconstruction-era documents to identify 1,250 formerly enslaved Black Americans given land—only to have it returned to their enslavers.”
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Hopeless Romantic, Seeking Treatment
“Should limerence—a state of obsessive infatuation—be considered a clinical issue?”
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Knotty Business: A Delightfully Tangled Reading List on Knots
Six stories on our fascination with knots.
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‘It Changed the World’: 50 Years On, the Story of Pong’s Bay Area Origins
“How Atari created the world’s most famous video game.”
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How to Quit Cars
“The history of transportation will always be social history, writ large.”
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Dimes, Dunks, and Devotion: A Basketball Reading List
Seven essays that go beyond the box score.
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How Lawrence Abu Hamdan Hears the World
“The artist and audio investigator, who calls himself a ‘private ear,’ investigates crimes that are heard but not seen.”
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The Waning Reign of the Wetland Architect We Barely Know (Hint: Not a Beaver)
“The sight of a whiskered nose held just above the water, a small bow wave preceding it, never ceased to lift my spirits.”
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We Were Known For Our Rivers
“A grieving daughter channels family memories along the Nueces.”
