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My Road Trip With the Do-Gooding Cactus Smugglers
“Can poaching ever be ethical?”
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On Writing: An Abecedarian
“To be inside the cathedral of a language is to be inside a particular view of the world.”
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George Saunders Says Ditching These Three Delusions Can Save You
“He’s as flawed a human being as anyone else, one who’s still wrestling with questions about how best to move through life with a modicum of grace and compassion.”
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Is There Life After Smartphones?
“This year, I set out to better understand what was driving this shift — what was causing so many young people to feel fed up with their phones.”
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You Could Be Next
“Laid-off lawyers, history PhDs, and scientists are now part of a miserable gig economy in which they’re teaching AI how to do their old jobs.”
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I Tried to Forget My Whole Life. I’m Glad I Failed.
The hindsight of an adulthood autism diagnosis.
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Lay It Down
“People love John Samson Fellows’s music. He doesn’t want to make it anymore.”
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Evolution and Guinea Pig Toes
“How one animal’s oddity inspired Sewall Wright to take on one of Darwin’s big ideas.”
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How Pronghorns Outran the Ice Age
“Can they outrun an uncertain climate future?”
