Robert Gatenby, a radiologist in Tampa, Florida, is rethinking cancer as a chronic illness: studying the link between cancer and Darwin’s principles and finding a way to “outsmart it rather than carpet-bomb it.”
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No Time Like the Present
You don’t know what day it is, do you? Robert Burke Warren digs into ‘the Oddball Effect’ and fascinating brain data that may help explain why.
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Longreads Best of 2020: Arts and Culture
Our top editors’ picks in arts and culture writing this year.
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Longreads Best of 2020: Writing on COVID-19
Our top story picks in COVID-19 reporting this year.
Posted inCrime, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes
Evidence Over Intelligence: How Robert Mueller Sought Justice for Pan Am Flight 103
The 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103 has had a lasting effect on Robert Mueller and the FBI.
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The Devastating Allure of Medical Miracles
Hand transplant patients at the University of Pittsburgh were given new hands — and hope. But the experimental technique has led to side effects.
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The Mad Scramble to Claim the World’s Most Coveted Meteorite
Meteorite hunters Mike Farmer and Robert Ward travel to Carancas, a tiny village at 12,000 feet in Peru’s remote altiplano, to examine a crater in the hope to claim precious rock from space.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Kavitha Surana and Hannah Dreier, Garrett M. Graff, Dani Shapiro, Taffy Brodesser-Akner, and Lauren Hough.
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Searching for Insights from Her Father’s Delusions
When a journalist tries to understand her father’s claims of CIA surveillance, she learns to see her digital world in a very different light.
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Longreads Best of 2019: Crime Reporting
We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year. Here is the best in crime reporting.
