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• Carolyn Wells
I Work in Hollywood. Everyone Who Used to Make TV Is Now Secretly Training AI
"For screenwriters like me—and job seekers all over—AI gig work is the new waiting tables."
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• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
The Clippening
"'Clippers' cut up podcasts, videos, and events into infinite shorter versions. How long can they ride the algorithms?"
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• Courtney E. Martin
‘This Was Our Life’: A Reading List on Multigenerational Caregiving
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• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
The Desert Safety Net
"Every winter, tens of thousands of Americans migrate to public lands in the Arizona desert. For a growing number, it's not a vacation—it’s the only housing they can afford."
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• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
The Hiding Man of Griffith Park
"A guerrilla artist has made the Eastside his canvas. His medium: Strange signs."
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• Carolyn Wells
My Life as a Sex Worker at a Nevada Brothel
"Men come to me for sex, yes. But in an age of profound loneliness and disconnection, they turn out to be looking for so much more."
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• Krista Stevens
How Everest Has Changed Since Into Thin Air
"Scaling the world’s highest mountain is a very different experience than it was when I climbed it."
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• Brendan Fitzgerald
ISpyForGood
"On any given day I was seen as both valuable and disposable, sometimes oscillating between these in the same hour."
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• Krista Stevens
The Life and Times of an American Tween
"In some ways, the world is cooked. But being a twelve-year-old still kind of eats."
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• Carolyn Wells
I Want to Live Like Costco People
"Some of us are crying in H Mart; some of us are mourning in Costco."
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• Brendan Fitzgerald
Ever New
"In Beverly Glenn-Copeland’s music, the present moment is an astonishing, improbable gift."
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• Peter Rubin
Opposable Thumbs
"On cartoons, colors, ferris wheels, Father’s Day, Prince, coming out, the internet, and me."
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Open Season
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• Seyward Darby
What Will It Take to Get AI Out of Schools?
"The tech world assumes that AI-aided education is necessary and inevitable. A growing number of parents, educators, and cognitive scientists say the opposite."
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• Peter Rubin
The Voice That Revealed a Planet
"David Attenborough turned a whisper into one of the most powerful voices in history. At 100, it carries both wonder and warning."
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• Brendan Fitzgerald
Inside the Enhanced Games, Where Athletes Compete on Steroids. And Growth Hormones. And Adderall.
"Most drugs are banned in the world of elite sports, but not here. In this competition—backed by Peter Thiel, Donald Trump Jr., and Saudi royalty—the athletes are guinea pigs. And if those backers have their way, you’re next."
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• Brendan Fitzgerald
All My Dad’s Sons
"At a very young age, I learned a lot about how life can go wrong. It put things into perspective, even if that perspective was a little warped."
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• Peter Rubin
My Classroom Life
"The best way to learn something is to teach it."
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• Carolyn Wells
‘It’s Super Weird, Super Odd, Super Rare’: Meet The Twins Who Have Different Dads
" Family ‘It’s super weird, super odd, super rare’: meet the twins who have different dads When DNA test results shattered everything Lavinia and Michelle thought they knew about their family history, they also revealed something never before documented in the UK."
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• Mac Barnett
The Secret Door
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• Brendan Fitzgerald
The Number You Have Dialed
"On the imperfection of elegies."
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• Carolyn Wells
Secrets of the Bees: Revealing the Sneaky Genius of Nature’s Brightest Thinkers
"New science is showing that nature’s vital pollinators are smarter than we ever imagined."
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• Carolyn Wells
I Mean, Why Shouldn’t We All Smoke Cigarettes Again?
"We quit our bad habits for the sake of our future selves. How naïve of us."
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• Seyward Darby
“You Are Always Just a Kiss Away From Me My Beautiful Boy.”
"Their family members vanished near Mass. Ave. They won’t stop searching."
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This edition highlights reading about messages in bottles, public benches, infinity, a series of books about everything, and pay-to-play orchestras.
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• Peter Rubin
What Can We Gain by Losing Infinity?
"Ultrafinitism, a philosophy that rejects the infinite, has long been dismissed as mathematical heresy. But it is also producing new insights in math and beyond."
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• Carolyn Wells
We Bought an Orchestra
"The rise of pay-to-play in classical music."
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• Seyward Darby
Their Ancestor Was an Enslaved Potter. They Are Battling to Recover His Legacy.
"The descendants of David Drake learned who he was 10 years ago. They see his jars as his artistic and spiritual inheritance—and their own."