The tech boom in Silicon Valley has displaced countless numbers of residents, who are struggling to stay in the place they call home even if it means having to live in their cars.
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How Women Are Taking the Legal Weed Industry into the Future
How a plant might smash the patriarchy.
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‘We Value Experience’: Can a Secret Society Become a Business?
Jeff Hull’s Latitude Society explores the possibilities of art, intimacy, experience, and membership.
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Taylor Wilson, Nuclear Boy Genius
Taylor Wilson built a working nuclear fusion reactor in his parents’ garage when he was 14. Seven years and two TED talks later, Taylor is working on a hi-tech business empire and ways to intercept dirty bombs—all at the ripe old age of 21.
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Tech Companies Are Racing to Create Family Friendly Policies — Amazon Is Not One of Them
Jodi Kantor and David Streitfeld report in the New York Times this weekend about the cut-throat work culture at Amazon.
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Longreads Best of 2016: Essays & Criticism
We asked a few writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here, the best in essays and criticism.
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A Reading List Inspired by Seattle
Seattle was cool and sunny. The flowers were more vivid than anything I’d ever seen on the East Coast. I touched the Pacific Ocean for the first time. I slept on a goddamn sailboat. Washington, I love you.
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Catholic Churches Built Secret Astronomical Features Into Churches to Help Save Souls
After centuries of war, Catholicism and science reconciled over meridian lines.
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‘We Value Experience’: Can a Secret Society Become a Business?
Jeff Hull’s Latitude Society explores the possibilities of art, intimacy, experience, and membership.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
Pulse Nightclub Was My Home
On the anniversary of the Pulse nightclub massacre in Orlando, Edgar Gomez reflects on what a safe haven the club was for him and others — maybe even shooter Omar Mateen.
