“What exactly was happening inside patients to make their sense of smell disappear in such an unusual way? Could Covid-related smell loss teach us anything new about how the virus worked? Or about how we did?”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Lauren Markham, Ariel Levy, Brooke Jarvis, Audrey Gray, and Chris Dennis.
Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes, Science & Nature
Preserving Human Life Requires Preserving Insect Life
While science labors to comprehend the variety and volume of insects on earth, both are declining with disturbing speed, and the ecological consequences are troubling.
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Our Planet Still Has Secrets: Talking Tasmanian Tigers with Journalist Brooke Jarvis
Investigating the people who search for the extinct Tasmanian Tiger.
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Here Be Tigers
If thousands of Australians claim to have seen the Tasmanian Tiger in the wild, then did it really go extinct in 1936?
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The Fight to Escape “A World of Anonymous Abuse”
Online harassment is as serious as offline harassment, and it rarely stays “only” online.
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What Happens When a Tribe Cuts Ties with 306 of Its Own Members
In more than 30 years of membership, Annie’s descendants became interwoven in the life of the tribe. They married other Nooksacks and had kids; those kids had kids. But once the disenrollment process began, people chose sides. “It was just like a light switch,” Elizabeth Oshiro, one of the 306, told me. People she knew […]