“Despite their outsize hold on popular imagination, Venus flytraps are native to a tiny corner of the globe: the Coastal Plain of the Carolinas.”
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A Clock in the Forest
“Clocks that use nature to measure time can reintegrate people into the environment and counteract the calamities of the Anthropocene.”
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The Jackpot Generation
“Canada is in the midst of the greatest wealth transfer of all time, as some $1 trillion passes from boomers to their millennial kids. How an inheritance-based economy will transform the country.”
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Avenging Billy
“How amateur sleuths took on a gay porn actor’s haunting Hollywood murder.”
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Pizzastroika
“In 1990, in the last breaths of the Cold War, a delicious act of American subversion unfolded in Moscow. It’s long been forgotten. It shouldn’t be.”
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My Father Could Have Changed the World. Instead, He Changed Mine
“He embodied the traits of our great ancestors—but ended up a drug dealer who broke his family.”
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Taken Under Fascism, Spain’s ‘Stolen Babies’ Are Learning the Truth
“Thousands of Spanish children were taken from hospitals and sold to wealthy Catholic families. This is Ana Belén Pintado’s story.”
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Eco-Radical, Singer, Criminal, Cult Leader: Inside Carbon Nation
“Eligio Bishop declared himself a God to a group of dedicated followers he led through Central America, Mexico, and the US before landing in the Atlanta area. Now he’s serving life in prison.”
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Why One Geologist Thinks We Should All Pay More Attention to Rocks
“Professor Marcia Bjornerud urges us to understand rocks as records of earlier versions of the planet—and as a call to protect its future.”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This edition includes writing from Cynthia R. Greenlee, Krithika Srinivason, Noah Vineberg, Monica Mark, and Alex Pappademas.
