“Cystic fibrosis once guaranteed an early death—but a medical breakthrough has given many patients a chance to live decades longer than expected. What do they do now?”
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Picture This: A Tectonic Revolution
“With one map, Marie Tharp revealed the raw, rifted depths of the Atlantic—and changed what we thought we knew about the Earth.”
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Crying Myself to Sleep on the Biggest Cruise Ship Ever
“Seven agonizing nights aboard the Icon of the Seas.”
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I Never Called Her Momma
“I always saw crack as the source of my family’s problems. But I learned that addiction went back in our family long before the crack epidemic—as did poverty and neglect.”
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Girls Will Be Girls: A Reading List on Consumerism in the Internet Age
Are the scores of girl personas on TikTok just a marketing campaign? Let’s do the (girl) math.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week we are featuring stories from Mark Follman, Scott Stossel, Wei Tchou, Sara Franklin, and Alexander Sammon.
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My Absolutely Chaotic Adventures at Sea During the Summer of 1984
“When we were offered jobs as deckhands, we jumped at the chance, naïve to the risks of the open sea.”
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Meet Me in the Eternal City
“Silicon Valley has always dreamed of building its own utopias. Who’s ready to move in?”
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The Return of the Monarch
“After years of decline, butterfly populations are rising—for now.”
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Zombie Twitter Has Arrived
Instagram’s Threads proves that social media is fated to repeat a cycle of life and death.
