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Posted inFeature, Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Story, Technology
Research and Rescue: Saving Species from Ourselves
We’re developing high-tech genetic tools to pour new life into animals lost to human destruction. Deciding how — and whether — to use that power is as complex as the science behind it.
Posted inArts & Culture, Business & Tech, Quotes
Second Life: A World that, for Some, Allows Full Participation
Second Life offers both escapism and a refuge for its hard-core digital denizens.
Posted inCulture, Essays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women, Writing
The Occupation of a Woman Writer
Our inherited biases about who should write what live deeper than most of us realize or want to acknowledge.
Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Story
Atlantic City Is Really Going Down This Time
There’s no doubt that Atlantic City is going under. The only question left is: Can an entire city donate its body to science?
Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Story
The Little Book That Lost Its Author
How will artificial intelligence change literature?
Posted inReading List
But You Look Fine: A Reading List About Disabilities, Accommodations, and School
Jacqueline Alnes brings us six stories on disability and discrimination in higher education.
Posted inCulture, Story
Lumbersexuality, a Sport and a Pastime
Why do people — mostly men — want to throw axes and dress like lumberjacks?
Posted inNonfiction
Orwell’s Last Neighborhood
While envisioning the darkest of futures and grappling with mortality, the English writer retreated to an idyllic Scottish isle to write Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
How We Write About the Nazis Next Door
The Nazi next door is still a Nazi.
