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The Brazilian Healer and the Patron Saint of Impossible Causes

by Leigh Hopkins July 3, 2019February 10, 2023

Leigh Hopkins faces the hidden truth about the world’s most famous spiritual surgeon and the irresistible desire to find ‘the cure.’

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A Clever New Strategy for Treating Cancer, Thanks to Darwin

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands March 28, 2019October 19, 2022

Robert Gatenby, a radiologist in Tampa, Florida, is rethinking cancer as a chronic illness: studying the link between cancer and Darwin’s principles and finding a way to “outsmart it rather than carpet-bomb it.”

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The Ransomeware Superhero of Normal, Illinois

by Krista Stevens October 28, 2019October 19, 2022

By day cancer survivor Michael Gillespie — an unassuming man who lives in Normal, Illinois, along with eight cats and his wife — works at a little computer repair shop called Nerds on Call. By night he’s a ransomeware-busting superhero to scores of people whose computers have been taken over by bad guys trying to […]

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Dressing for a Wound: How My Body and I Reconciled After a Mastectomy

by Sari Botton August 22, 2019June 4, 2025

A personal essay in which Lisa Miller writes about coming to terms with her body, her image, and her personal style following a mastectomy and reconstruction.

Nonfiction

Debt Demands a Body

by Kristin Collier December 1, 2021February 28, 2024

“The future that debt chose for me — indeed the future it chooses for many people — included a lot of shame, confusion, and pain.”

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Meet Michael Gillespie, the Ransomeware Superhero of Normal, Illinois

by Krista Stevens October 29, 2019October 19, 2022

Michael Gillespie has automated a way to decrypt ransomeware, and he gives his code away for free just to help people in need.

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This economist has a plan to fix capitalism. It’s time we all listened

by Catherine Cusick October 10, 2019October 19, 2022

Mariana Mazzucato, author of The Value of Everything and “one of the most influential economists in the world,” first set out to rewrite a narrative of corporate innovation that omitted the role of the state’s early investments in risk-taking. Now the European Parliament has just approved Mazzucato’s proposal for Horizon Europe, a set of concrete, measurable policies designed to […]