“The street photographer speaks about New York City folklore, stepping away from Instagram, and his shifting priorities as an artist.”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Recommending stories from Alyssa Roenigk, Rachel Monroe, Brad Rassler, Will Bahr, and Zachary B. Hancock.
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In Living Color: A Prismatic Reading List on Pigment, Paint, and Perception
Six stories celebrating color in all its beauty.
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Swallowing: I Was Mike Mew’s Patient
“I wondered if the two dentists were right—whether my body was becoming ugly. And if it was, why it would do that to me. This was something I had not thought about before.”
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Blood Money
“When I saw the ad promising that I could get up to $900 giving plasma, signing up wasn’t a choice so much as an inevitability.”
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Animals as Chemical Factories
“Horses bled for antivenom, crabs drained for endotoxin tests, and silkworms boiled for silk. Science can now replace these practices with synthetic alternatives — but we need to find ways to scale them.”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Skip Hollandsworth, Kory Grow and Jason Newman, Jordan Kisner, Clare Fieseler, and Jessica Klein.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Recommending noteworthy reads from Tim Prudente and Stokely Baksh, Rachel Aviv, Abby Tickell, Nick Zarzycki, and Andrea Sachs.
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The Longevity Hot Spots That Weren’t
‘Our culture has become obsessed with “blue zones,” where people purportedly live longer. But does the underlying research stand up to scrutiny?”
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Frank Smith Was Locked Up for Eight Decades. At 98, What Would It Mean to Be Free?
“Likely the longest-serving prisoner in America, he’s been paroled into a Connecticut nursing home. But he’s still not out.”
