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 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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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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A Race to Claim a Piece of Space: The Out-of-This World Obsession of Meteorite Hunters
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 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 Jean Guerrero, Lauren Weber, Doug Bock Clark, Dara Horn, and Dan Nosowitz.
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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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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Natalie Kitroeff and Jessica Silver-Greenberg, Brendan I. Koerner, Eve Peyser, Darius Miles, and Bill Wyman.
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The Prank that Killed Andrew Finch
How a malevolent, remorseless online troll and the shoot-first, ask questions later mode of policing added up to a real-life tragedy in Wichita Kansas.
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Russian Malware Is Really Killin’ It Lately
When Russia attacked Ukraine with sophicated malware in 2017, it caused over $10 billion dollars worth of damage and revealed the whole world’s vulnerabilities.