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True cost of Philippines gold-mining: Poverty-stricken workers risk health for precious metal
Miners sift through hundreds of kilos of sand and clay, gathering roughly a quarter of a gram of gold dust. By Alex Wheeler.
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The Last Game I Make Before I Die
Samuel Coster
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Meet the man bent on powering the world with vortexes
The Canadian electrical engineer Louis Michaud believes he has a world-changing, and potentially world-saving, idea: clean energy through tornado power. His singular pursuit is generally met with immediate skepticism, but Michaud understands that there will be naysayers until there are results… By Flora Lichtman, Katherine Wells.
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The Caviar of the Desert
In the highlands of Mexico, farmers harvest ant larvae that will end up in some of the nation’s most exclusive restaurants. By Marcela Zendejas and Mauricio Palos.
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Incredible First Person Footage of a Real Spacewalk Will Leave You Speechless
On March 24th, ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet was joined by NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough on a spacewalk outside the International Space Station… By Andrew Liszewski.
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These Wildlife Conservationists Haven’t Given Up Hope
A new book profiles people who have devoted their lives to protecting the world’s at-risk animals. By Colette Harris.
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The Most Important Scientist You’ve Never Heard Of
Clair Patterson determined the age of the Earth—and then he saved it. By Lucas Reilly.
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The Booming Industry Emerging From Louisiana’s Vanishing Coast
Here’s how a shrinking state is paving the future of building. By Leslie Nguyen-Okwu.
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Alone on the Open Road: Truckers Feel Like ‘Throwaway People’
President Trump ignited a national discussion of blue-collar jobs. Truck driving, once a road to the middle class, is now low-paying, grinding, unhealthy work. We talked with drivers about why they do it. By “Trip Gabriel.
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Manufacturing and cybersecurity
On May 12, hackers launched a “ransomware” cyberattack that would eventually infect 300,000 machines in 150 countries over a three-day period.
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The Work You Do, the Person You Are
The pleasure of being necessary to my parents was profound. I was not like the children in folktales: burdensome mouths to feed. By Toni Morrison.
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NASA’s Mars rover is really good at laser-blasting rocks without human input
Curiosity has been studying Mars on its own for a year. By Sean O’Kane.
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The Future of Coal Country
A local environmental activist fights to prepare her community for life beyond mining. By Eliza Griswold.
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Trucking as a State of Mind
Finn Murphy’s “The Long Haul: A Trucker’s Tales of Life on the Road” is an occupational memoir with an untold human story at its center. By Joshua Rothman.
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The Drug Runners
The Tarahumara of northern Mexico became famous for their ability to run incredibly long distances. Now, they’re running for their lives. By Ryan Goldberg.
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The day that destroyed the [U.S.] working class and sowed the seeds of Trump
Forty years ago, on Sept. 19, thousands of men walked into the Campbell Works of Youngstown Sheet and Tube along the Mahoning River before the early shift... By Salena Zito.
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In Amish Country, the Future Is Calling
A young woman, wearing a traditional full-length Amish dress and white bonnet, stepped away from a farmer’s market, opened her palm and revealed a smartphone... By Kevin Granville, Ashley Gilbertson.
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Bringing in the Beans
Harvest on an American family farm. By Ted Genoways. [Autoplay]
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Secret Life of a Crime Scene Cleaner
How a transgender Australian found her niche cleaning up after murders, suicides, and unimaginable filth of endless variation. By Sarah Krasnostein.
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Bigelow Aerospace wants to put an inflatable space habitat in orbit around the Moon
The plan is to do it by 2022. By Loren Grush.
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