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When a Houseplant Obsession Becomes a Nightmare

By Brian Howey
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The Search for a Pill That Can Help Dogs—and Humans—Live Longer

By Tom Simonite
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The Election-Swinging, Facebook-Fueled, Get-Out-the-Vote Machine

By Nancy Scola
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The Secret Microscope That Sparked a Scientific Revolution

By Cody Cassidy
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A Better Birth Is Possible

By Ruha Benjamin
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Kanye West Was Right(ish)

By Brandi Collins-Dexter
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When the Big One Hits Portland, Cargo Bikers Will Save You

By Adrienne So
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Would You Ditch All This Chaos for a Country in the Cloud?

By Anthony Lydgate
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My 4 Days in Fake Gay-Conversion Therapy

By Jason Anthony
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Inside the Shadow Evacuation of Kabul

By Michael Venutolo-Mantovani
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Sayaka Murata Inhabits a Planet of Her Own

By Thu-Huong Ha
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What If You Tried to Swallow a Whole Cloud?

By Randall Munroe
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The Family That Mined the Pentagon's Data for Profit

By Mark Ellis Harris
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The Curious Afterlife of a Brain Trauma Survivor

By Mike Mariani
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The Double Life of an American Lake Monster

By Marion Renault and Michael Tessler
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The Big Business of Burying Carbon

By Jeffrey Ball
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The High-Stakes Race to Engineer New Psychedelic Drugs

By John Semley
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Meet the Lobbyist Next Door

By Benjamin Wofford
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Humans Have Always Been Wrong About Humans

By Virginia Heffernan
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The Loneliness of the Junior College Esports Coach

By Brendan I. Koerner
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Here Comes the Sun—to End Civilization

By Matt Ribel
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Can Democracy Include a World Beyond Humans?

By James Bridle
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When Covid Came for Provincetown

By Maryn McKenna
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A Pandemic Tragedy on Brazil’s Lago Verde

By Fábio Zuker
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