“As they pass through different hands, cooking utensils can magically connect us to loved ones who are no longer with us.”
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Active Recall
“As of his sixth birthday next month, he will have 2,462 seconds, his entire life compressed as I wanted to remember it, into approximately 41 minutes.”
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Uncanny Testimony
As the last Holocaust survivors approach the end of their lives, an AI scholar grapples with technology that promises to freeze them in time.
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Solastalgia
“Pleasant memories of places past: that’s nostalgia. But what do you call the grief that comes when the modern world leaves nary a trace of the place that raised you?”
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Against Rereading
“For those who do not reread, a book is like a little life. When it ends, it dies—or it lives on, imperfectly and embellished, in your memories.”
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Losing My Dad in Installments
“Back then, it felt easier to say goodbye to each part of him as they left.”
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What a Tree—or a House—Remembers
Angelica Calabrese on family, memory, and the almond groves of Italy.
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You Have a New Memory
“What do we mean when we say the internet is reading our minds?”
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Objects We Leave Behind (and Our Top 5)
In this edition: humanity lost, life accumulated, memories flooded, parenting practiced, sleep unoptimized.
