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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads April 26, 2019October 19, 2022

This week, we’re sharing stories from Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Anna Merlan, Sara Tatyana Bernstein, Connie Pertuz-Meza, and Emma Beddington.

Posted inCulture, Highlight, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes, Science & Nature, Technology

Into the Wild On an E-Scooter

by Aaron Gilbreath March 25, 2019October 19, 2022

What happens when you ride an e-scooter out of the city limits — until its battery dies?

Posted inNonfiction, Top 5

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads January 11, 2019October 19, 2022

This week, we’re sharing stories from Tressie McMillan Cottom, Kashmir Hill, R.O. Kwon, Jaime Lowe, and Steve Edwards.

Posted inHighlight, investigations, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes

“Welcome to the House of Horrors”: When IP Address Mapping Goes Wrong

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands January 10, 2019October 19, 2022

John and his mother Ann, who live in a house in Pretoria, South Africa, were two victims of faulty IP address mapping — and the U.S. government played a big role in the mess.

Posted inEditor's Pick

How Cartographers for the U.S. Military Inadvertently Created a House of Horrors in South Africa

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands January 10, 2019October 19, 2022

John and his mother Ann, who live in a house in Pretoria, South Africa, were two victims of faulty IP address mapping — and the U.S. government played a big role in the mess.

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Posted inNonfiction, Top 5

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads November 17, 2017October 19, 2022

This week, we’re sharing stories from C.J. Chivers, Sheelah Kolhatkar, Libby Copeland, Amanda Petrusich, and Bryan Menegus.

Posted inEditor's Pick

Amazon’s Last Mile

by michelleweber November 16, 2017October 19, 2022

Who delivers Amazon orders? Increasingly, it’s plainclothes contractors with few labor protections, driving their own cars, competing for shifts on the company’s own Uber-like platform.

Posted inBlog Post, Current Events, Nonfiction

Tech Companies Are (Maybe) Ready to Punch Nazis Now

by Danielle Tcholakian August 18, 2017October 19, 2022

Some tech companies are taking a stand against neo-Nazi users, but claim it’s a still dangerous decision to make.

Posted inNonfiction, Quotes

Nyet to Harm Reduction: Russia’s HIV Epidemic

by Krista Stevens May 16, 2017October 19, 2022

In Yekaterinburg, the fourth largest city in Russia, one in 50 are HIV positive, half of which are due to intravenous drug use.

Posted inNonfiction, Quotes

How Many People Does It Take To Power Times Square?

by juliawick August 6, 2014October 19, 2022

Times Square is one big, busy machine. Powered by American ingenuity and more than a few megawatts of electricity, these six square blocks stay bright 24 hours a day, seven days a week. You’ve seen Times Square in movies and on TV a million times. A lot of you have probably seen it in real life, teeming […]

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