“Establishing a human colony on Mars is fraught with risk. Why are so many people obsessed with achieving it?”
humanity
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What Brain Surgery Taught Me About the Fragile Gift of Consciousness
“After the trauma of a high-risk medical procedure, Eric Markowitz discovered a kind of consciousness that lives not in thought — but in presence.”
Posted inEditor's Pick
How Societies Morph With the Seasons
“An evolutionary anthropologist details seasonal changes among foraging communities—and distills how the fixed political structures of industrialized societies are an outlier in human history.”
Posted inFeature
The Strangely Beautiful Experience of Google Reviews
Glimpses of humanity in an unlikely corner of the internet.
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Will We Ever Grasp the Enormity of the Pandemic?
“As long as we focus on deaths and statistics, the bigger story of Covid-19 will go untold.”
Posted inHighlight, Quote Posts, Quotes
The Guy who Ordered a Hit On His Stepmother for $5
Death, delivered as per your instructions.
Posted inStory
On “Art Heroes” and Letting Your Idols Be Human
What one fan learned through being disappointed and comforted by Nick Cave’s The Red Hand Files.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
On the Frontline of Disaster: The Volunteer Ambulance Drivers of Karachi, Pakistan
The Edhi Foundation volunteer ambulance service drivers work for $1.30 US per day, collecting the dead and wounded in the streets of Karachi, Pakistan.
Posted inCurrent Events, Media, Nonfiction, Quotes
When Does a Company Decide You Are Human?
We have surrendered logic and empathy in favor of the distance and simplicity of corporate rule-making.