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Between Death and the Unknown
Their homes overrun by criminals, thousands move north toward safety. But they risk their lives to get there. By J. Malcolm Garcia.
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Bringing in the Beans
Harvest on an American family farm. By Ted Genoways. [Autoplay]
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Aging in the Time of Endless War
Perhaps I was shipwrecked, philosophically speaking, but I managed to take in the glorious north with its iced hills shimmering under the low and golden light. On the hike back out I realized that I hadn’t had my heart in the hike... By Nelson Lowhim.
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Summer in the Heartsick Mountains
On a nearly moonless night in late May, as I stumbled down a wide, smooth path near a large campground in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, it suddenly occurred to me that I can’t see in the dark anymore... By Ellie Shechet.
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An Artist for the Instagram Age
Is Yayoi Kusama’s new participatory-art exhibit about seeking profound experiences—or posting selfies?
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Falling off Bolivia’s ‘Death Road’
The miraculous survival of a cyclist who fell off Bolivia's Yungas Road. Maria With Hoen tells Jo Fidgen about her excitement at the prospect of an adventure.
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If It Keeps on Raining
It was the swift and anomalous conduct of wildlife that got to me initially, the ants in particular, which had been observed floating in odd heaps throughout the city, each insect clasped to one another, thousands of them, like some kind of freakish, buoyant phalanx... By Micah Fields.
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Nobody Dies in Longyearbyen
MEL Films
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Surface to Unlimited: A Visit to Spaceport America
Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, has long depended on tourism. Now spaceflight has been folded into its mythos, at the dawn of the Second Space Age. By Jack Murphy.
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A Recognition That We’re All Getting Screwed
Winning the [U.S.] white working class for criminal justice reform. By Vanessa Baker.
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A Kingdom for a Horse
Kokpar and the Future of Kazakhstan. By Will Boast.
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Michel Foucault in Death Valley
A Boom interview with Simeon Wade. By Heather Dundas.
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Atomic City
On January 3, 1961, a nuclear reactor the size of a small grain silo exploded in the Idaho desert, causing one of the only recorded nuclear fatalities on U.S. soil. By Justin Nobel.
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The Crypto-Keepers
If apps like Signal really posed a threat to the NSA’s surveillance power, why would the U.S. government continue to fund them? By Yasha Levine.
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The Peculiar Poetry of Paris’s Lost and Found
In modern France, man’s uninterrupted right to his possessions, even his misplaced ones, is one of his most basic. By Nadja Spiegelman.
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“It Just Consumed Me”
Normally, not something you want a shark scientist to say. But Eric Stroud is talking about his chemistry-lab quest for the ultimate shark repellent, which he appears to have found. The questions that remain: Does it work on the great white, the ocean’s most fearsome predator? And can a couple of rookie entrepreneurs get it to market? By Charles Bethea.
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Meltdown
Funny story: My old man gets cancer, survives, vows thenceforth to see as much of the world as he can, drags me all over creation, and leaves mind-bending mishaps in his wake. Our next mission? Tour rapidly defrosting Iceland and Greenland. Bad idea? You could say that. By Wells Tower.
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Into the Unknown
His companions died. Food was nearly gone. And Douglas Mawson still had 95 polar miles to go. By David Roberts.
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The Judgment of Rebecca West
James Thomas Snyder celebrates Rebecca West’s classic “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon.”
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Tripping on Peyote in Navajo Nation
A journalist exploring psychedelics’ therapeutic potential participates in a ceremony of the Native American Church. By John Horgan. (July 5, 2017)
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