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On Compost
“I now ignore compost orthodoxy in favour of this one rule: ingredients must have been living (or, like paper, be made from something living)”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
In this edition: January begins, finding beauty, powerful blues, toxic water, and begonia batons.
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Strangers Rent My Home, Sleep in My Bed, Play My Guitar
“Is it suffering? Is it just a sign of the times?”
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Puzzled
“In the world of jigsaws, there can be a fine line between productivity and pleasure.”
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The Last Resort
“At Bombay Beach, a half-ruined former vacation town on the edge of the Salton Sea, absurdist philosophers, artists, and everyday townsfolk have undertaken a postapocalyptic experiment in radical living.”
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How Many Errorrs Are in This Essay?
An essay to make you chuckle, and think. Ed Simon explores some of the copy mistakes made throughout history — and then shifts onto the mistakes that make us, and our very universe, exist. Homeoarchy is the accidental deletion of lines; metathesis the reversing of letters in a wrod. An entirely more delightful flaw can […]
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When Did I Start Getting Cancer?
“An environmental chemist investigates the origins of her leukemia.”
