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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Wright Thompson, Fred Kaplan, Tori Marlan, Casey Gerald, and Sarah Everts.
Posted inEditor's Pick
It’s Been One Year Since Students Started Widespread Distance Learning
“Someday, there again will be high school proms, science fairs in the gym, and nighttime football games packed with students bathed under white lights. But who will be forgotten and left further behind?”
Posted inFeature, Science & Nature, Story
An Atlas of the Cosmos
We’ve mapped Mars, the Moon, the solar system, even our own galaxy. Which means there is only one thing left to understand in this symbolic way and that is the entirety of the cosmos.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Hex Factor: Inside the Group Offering $250,000 for Proof of Superpowers
“Applicants come from all over the world and make all kinds of claims, but the one thing they have in common is that every single person appears to genuinely believe they do, in fact, possess abilities that science cannot explain.”
Posted inHighlight, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes, Science & Nature
The Team of Scientists Behind Moderna’s COVID-19 Vaccine
How scientists developed a COVID-19 vaccine in record time.
Posted inQuotes
The Joy of a Pointless Walk
“Maybe walking into some marshes, and deciding at an undetermined future point to stop walking, was what was available to the Romantics, but I think we can do better.”
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Cleave
“Trying to make sense of all this grief is a cultural challenge, as much as a scientific one. It requires a real grappling with memory—the science of how we remember, and what we choose to forget.”
Posted inCuration, Nonfiction, Top 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Nicole Carr, Cullen Murphy, Carrington J. Tatum, Matthew Bremner, and Nitasha Tiku.
Posted inNonfiction
Before Donating Your Body Was a Choice
Whose nervous system is stretched out in a glass case at Drexel University’s medical campus?
