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An amateur seed bank has rescued countless rare varieties, but now it may be running out of time.
Laura Poppick Down East Apr 2020 10min Permalink
How did a mother of 10 and a Plano cop wind up pushing pills in the Park Cities?
Peter Simek D Magazine Apr 2020 30min Permalink
EEE kills almost half of its victims, and cases are on the rise.
Oscar Schwartz One Zero Jun 2020 20min Permalink
The last living Shakers—just two by some counts—keep their centuries-old faith in a village in Maine.
Katherine Lucky Commonweal Nov 2019 20min Permalink
A whirlwind tour of Istanbul’s public baths.
Leslie Jamison The New York Times Magazine Sep 2020 25min Permalink
DNA evidence proved Lydell Grant’s innocence. So why won’t the state’s highest criminal court exonerate him?
Michael Hall Texas Monthly Oct 2020 40min Permalink
The irreconcilable differences between Orthodoxy and secularism increasingly end up in court.
Larissa MacFarquhar New Yorker Nov 2020 40min Permalink
They were exhausting, impossible, stingy, and cruel, just like at their day jobs.
Moe Tkacik Slate Jan 2021 15min Permalink
While political leaders trade threats, the pandemic has made Americans even more reliant on China’s manufacturers.
Peter Hessler New Yorker Mar 2021 35min Permalink
How the Choose Your Own Adventure series began.
Aaron A. Reed 50 Years of Text Games Mar 2021 15min Permalink
At least 44 Fort Bragg soldiers died stateside in 2020—several of them were homicides. Families want answers. But the Army isn’t giving any.
Seth Harp Rolling Stone Apr 2021 35min Permalink
The theft of a deeply personal painting by René Magritte from a Belgian museum was a national tragedy. Now, an investigation points to a tragedy greater still.
Joshua Hunt Vanity Fair May 2021 20min Permalink
On the history of modern food.
Tom Finger Pipe Wrench Aug 2021 25min Permalink
Faced with fragility and uncertainty, gig workers around the world are connecting across borders to challenge platforms’ power and policies.
Peter Guest Rest of World Sep 2021 25min Permalink
The CIA plan to grab or kill Julian Assange before a theoretical escape to Moscow.
Zach Dorfman, Sean D. Naylor, Michael Isikoff Yahoo News Sep 2021 Permalink
“In all his life, this was the moment of his greatest defeat.” On the death of George McGovern’s daughter on a cold winter night in Madison, Wisconsin.
Laura Blumenfeld Washington Post Feb 1995 20min Permalink
How a self-taught doctor from Delhi cornered the black market in kidneys, building one of the world’s most lucrative organ-trading rings, until it all came crashing down.
Yudhijit Bhattacharjee Discover Apr 2010 Permalink
A profile of the Hot 97 DJ a few months after “he told the truth about who he is, even if it’s not entirely clear—even to Mister Cee himself, even now, to this day—what exactly that truth is.”
Zach Baron GQ Feb 2014 15min Permalink
“‘When I heard the facts,” says Matt Kull, one of DiPaolo’s former climbing partners, “I thought, That’s what Dave is capable of.’”
Sid Balman Jr. Outside Feb 2014 10min Permalink
Four men stood on the edge of the Shenzhen Health and Family Planning Commission, threatening to jump in protest. They referred to themselves as “China’s 21st century eunuchs,” damaged by medically-dubious surgeries.
RW McMorrow Vice May 2016 25min Permalink
In the city of Rosario, some fans have evolved into a mafia with an illicit cash flow and a stable of hit men. A look inside their homicidal turf war.
Amos Barshad The Fader Jun 2016 25min Permalink
Barbara Williamson co-founded Sandstone, one of the most famous radical experiments in group sex and communal living of the 1970s. Then she got wild.
Alex Mar Atlas Obscura Jun 2016 25min Permalink
Life at Marvel Comics in the mid-1960s.
An excerpt from Marvel Comics: The Untold Story.
On Aint It Cool News’ Harry Knowles, who built an influential empire on insider movie news while wheelchair-bound and at one point weighing over 500 pounds, then lost it all.
Hal Espen, Borys Kit The Hollywood Reporter Mar 2013 15min Permalink
Experimental neuroscience, everlasting consciousness, and conjoined minds — our favorite articles about the brain.
What the sensation of an uncontrollable itch can tell us about how the brain operates.
Atul Gawande New Yorker Jun 2008 30min
The shared life of Tatiana and Krista Hogan.
Susan Dominus New York Times Magazine May 2011 30min
How some scientists are turning to connectomes—maps of the brain’s neural circuitry—to make the case for brain preservation, mind uploading, and eternal life.
Evan R. Goldstein The Chronicle of Higher Education Jul 2012 20min
Susie McKinnon cannot hold a grudge. She is unfamiliar with the feeling of regret and oblivious to aging. She has no core memories. And yet she knows who she is.
Erika Hayasaki Wired Apr 2016
Is there really such a thing as brain death?
Gary Greenberg New Yorker Aug 2001 20min
Eagleman, a neuroscientist, describes how groundbreaking advances in the science of brain have changed our understanding of volition in criminal acts, and may erode the underpinnings of our justice system.
David Eagleman The Atlantic Jul 2011 30min
Edna Kelly’s brain goes under the knife.
Jon Franklin The Baltimore Sun Dec 1978 15min
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