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Posted inEditor's Pick
She Fell Nearly 2 Miles, and Walked Away
“At 17, biologist Juliane Diller was the sole survivor of a plane crash in the Amazon. Fifty years later she still runs Panguana, a research station founded by her parents in Peru.”
Posted inEditor's Pick
Inheriting an Autoimmune Disease and an Instinct for Survival
“Science provides me with a vocabulary of illness, confirming what my body already knows: that it will never be the same.”
Posted inEditor's Pick
Inequality’s Deadly Toll
“A century of research has demonstrated how poverty and discrimination drive disease. Can COVID push science to finally address the issue?”
Posted inCulture, History, Nonfiction, Reading List
What We Save, What We Destroy: A Reading List on Difficult Heritage
The present we inhabit is shaped by the mixed legacies of the past.
Posted inArts & Culture, Highlight, Quote Posts, Quotes, Science & Nature
A Fond Farewell to a Friend: the Arecibo Telescope
“Exploring the cosmos is a way for us to know ourselves. Each time we look up, in some way we are making contact with each other, with our past, present, and future.”
Posted inEssays & Criticism
How to Survive a Car Crash in 10 Easy Steps
A journalist navigates a world forever changed by her traumatic brain injury.
Posted inReading List
Not Serious People: A ‘Succession’ Reading List
Great writing begets great writing — and the commentary around the HBO smash hit is some of the best around.
Posted inHighlight, Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Writing
The Sickness That Stole the Trees
The quest to save the American chestnut tree.
