"AI companion toys for neurodivergent children promise connection and therapy, but can they deliver for the long haul?"
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• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
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• Brian Laidlaw
Going Up and Going In
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• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
Who Can Solve Gerhard Berger’s Quiz?
"The former Ferrari driver lent his name to the strangest F1 video game in history. Or did he?"
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• Brendan Fitzgerald
Why We Like Things
"What Silicon Valley gets wrong about taste."
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• Krista Stevens
Revolutions
"Joël Kyaviro has overcome violence, poverty, and the Ebola crisis to become the best cyclist to emerge from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. How far can he go?"
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• Carolyn Wells
Rachel Entrekin Is Ready to Take What’s Hers
"She’s been winning races outright for nearly a decade. Why are we only now learning her name?"
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• Carolyn Wells
Africa’s Wild Dogs Are the Most Hated Carnivores on the Continent. Here’s Why Some Conservationists Are Saving Them Anyway
"Meet the team that closely monitors the playful canines, which need help to form diverse packs and stop their numbers from dwindling."
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
In this edition: Bad medicine, imperfect sound forever, know when to fold ’em, brainiacs, and a call of the wild.
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• Seyward Darby
The Seniors Against Senior Housing
"America’s elders need more places to live, but even in liberal enclaves that recognize the problem, developers are facing the fiercest foes of all: America’s elders."
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• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
You Can Never Go Home Again. But You Can Spend a Lifetime Trying
'My father designed two of the houses I grew up in. Then he died. I’m still untangling where his taste ends and mine begins."
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• Lisa Whittington-Hill
Ladies of the ’80s
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• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
The Yarddogs of Northwest Arkansas
"What is never discussed in all of this hand-wringing is the fact that those dogs and their owners likely far predate the people riding their bikes here."
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• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
AI Is Dead. Organoids Are Alive
"Mini human brains are being grown in labs all over the world. Soon, they could outthink neural networks."
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• Krista Stevens
The Sound of Your Voice
"The fact that I had song ideas, let alone a place where I was saving them, was significant. It had been 15 years since I’d last released an album."
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• Carolyn Wells
Dolphins and Other Lovers
"The Andoque of the Amazon know what we have forgotten: the forest’s most beautiful creatures are also its most dangerous."
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• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
The Soviets Drilled the Deepest Hole Ever
"What on Earth for?"
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• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
The Terms and Conditions of a Place Where I’ll Belong
"Navigating romance—with people or with places—is always fraught when you’re an outsider."
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• Brendan Fitzgerald
I Went to the White House Brawl and Watched the Manosphere Go Limp
"It was supposed to be an exhibition of freedom without restraint: a bombastic birthday boy, fourteen uncontrollable athletes, and a South Lawn build-out that was piss-your-pants patriotic. But what united onlookers, in the end, was the sudden realization that American machismo had hit a hard limit."
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• Wilbert L. Cooper
Black and Blue in Cleveland
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• Carolyn Wells
Melon’s Odyssey On The Black Market For Life-Saving Cat Medicine
"While Melon lay dying under my bed, I contacted the Facebook group."
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• Brendan Fitzgerald
What if America Went Completely Dark?
"The power grid relies on thousands of aging, hand-built transformers. If enough fail, the blackout could last years."
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• Seyward Darby
The Children a Scientist Took Home
Carleton Gajdusek won the Nobel Prize for his work on a disease in Papua New Guinea. But his biggest experiment was on the children he took from the field to the US—many of whom he sexually molested, with the knowledge and, in some cases, approval of his professional peers and colleagues: In his journals and […]
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• Carolyn Wells
The End of the European Summer
"As extreme heat overwhelms the Continent’s great cities, they are racing to transform themselves for a climate that they were never built to withstand."
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Showcasing stories from Andrew Fedorov, Shayla Love, Malcolm Johnston, Erin Somers, and Chris Stanton.
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• Carolyn Wells
Where’s the Beef?
"The lab-grown-meat revolution that wasn’t."
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• Brendan Fitzgerald
Bad Cards
"How a $168,000 Michael Jordan rookie card rocked the $15 billion trading card industry."
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• Seyward Darby
How Anti-ICE Protesters Became Prisoners in Trump’s War on Antifa
"'We are not terrorists.'"
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The Longreads Questionnaire, Featuring Jaya Saxena
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• Carolyn Wells
How a Cowboy Rides When the Range is on Fire
"When wildfires approach, moving cattle to safety means managing their fear and instincts. Here’s how it’s done in B.C.’s Nicola Valley."
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• Brendan Fitzgerald
There’s Something Dangerous About Sam Rockwell
"Ever since that monologue—you know the one—everyone knows who the legendary scene-stealer is. Still, his appetite for taking risks means he’ll never stop surprising us."