“I had a panic attack. Then I wrote an apology letter.”
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• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
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• Brendan Fitzgerald
Colossal Biosciences Said It Cloned Red Wolves. Is It for Real?
"The red wolf has long been a contentious species. The debate over its preservation got even messier last year, when Colossal said it had cloned the animal."
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
War stories, new colors, and the joy in getting hands on in art and gardening.
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• Carolyn Wells
How War Has Redefined Marriage in Gaza
"Celebrating the bond between two lives is a declaration that life itself, however diminished, is still worth living."
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• Brendan Fitzgerald
What Would It Mean to See a New Color?
"Olo can be described as the 'greenest green,' though it can never be captured by a camera. But its development tells us a lot about our color vision."
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Secrets of the Atomic City
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• Brendan Fitzgerald
Six Teenagers, a Brutal Murder and the Story They Couldn’t Take Back
"In 2002, a group of friends from North Carolina told a story that ruined all their lives. What if it wasn’t true?"
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• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
The Missing Pages
"Sixty years after the Cultural Revolution began, a writer looks back to her childhood in Beijing during its peak, and the banned books that sustained her through the tumult."
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• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
A Fatal Reaction
"A cutting-edge gene-editing trial in China went disastrously wrong. A family wants accountability."
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• Seyward Darby
‘We Were Simply Animals’
"What happens to the disappeared in Mexico’s narco-slavery camps."
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• Kimon de Greef
Magical Mystery Toads
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• Brendan Fitzgerald
How Rogue Officers Turned a Nationwide Camera Network into a Tool for Stalking
"Flock’s array of license-plate cameras was built to fight crime. But at least 50 law enforcement officers were charged with or accused of misusing it and other systems."
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• Seyward Darby
Days Disrupted
"Across the world, the Iran war is reshaping everyday life."
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• Carolyn Wells
Who Ya Gonna Call? Scam Busters!
"How a team of sleuths reportedly tracked down the Brad Pitt impersonators who cyber-scammed a middle-aged Frenchwoman out of her life’s savings."
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• Krista Stevens
Was My Teacher Murdered?
"In 2002, Leslie Buck died under mysterious circumstances in Mystic, Connecticut. Two decades later, I went back to find out who she was — and what really happened."
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• Seyward Darby
Gaza’s Deadly Soil
"Amid tight Israeli restrictions, new remote research is starting to make visible the scale of toxic fallout across the Gaza Strip."
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
In this edition: in a pickle; gut feeling; king of pain; life (or something like it); for those about to rock.
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• Carolyn Wells
Meet Britain’s Hikikomori
"A growing number of young Brits are withdrawing from society. Some don't leave the house for months. We met their families."
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• Peter Rubin
What Is It Like to Be a Cucumber?
“The biologist Michael Levin has spent his life trying to prove that minds show up in places we’d never think to look.”
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• Carolyn Wells
This, Too, Shall Pass
"Our guts have never been more optimized—but have the scat chats gone too far?"
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• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
“Protected by Ghost Town”
"A private company has cleared dozens of homeless encampments in Venice—with persistence, cash payments, and a team that includes former gang members. Clients love them. The people they move do not."
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• Hannah Engler Harvey
You and Me and QVC
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• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
In the Age of AI, the Analog Restaurant Feels Radical
"Some restaurants are leaning into handmade touches, as AI-generated food photos and flyers become commonplace."
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• Brendan Fitzgerald
The Beauty of a Stone Wall
"Why we love them, and why I build them."
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• Krista Stevens
The Return of the Monarch
"After years of decline, butterfly populations are rising—for now."
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• Peter Rubin
“Spaceballs: The Clickbait”—Inside the Return of Rick Moranis at Comic-Con
“Moranis gets lost and found, Mel Brooks stays mint-in-the-box, and Josh Gad IS Ebenezer.”
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• Seyward Darby
Johnny Knoxville, America’s God of Mischief
"What moves the star of 'Jackass' to risk his life for our entertainment? A very serious investigation."
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• Seyward Darby
Her Rape Kit Had a DNA Match. In San Francisco, That’s Not Enough.
"SFPD cleared 14% of rape cases last year—half the national rate. The Standard found that kits get tested fast, then cases get quietly shelved."
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• Brendan Fitzgerald
He’s the Last Great Land Artist You’ve Never Heard Of
"Charles Ross spent 50 years building 'Star Axis,' a naked-eye observatory in New Mexico. Now his masterwork is ready. How to share it with a changed world?"