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"Millions of Americans a year visit national parks and many leave their business anywhere. Contrary to popular belief, that deluge of poop is not going to decompose."
"A former FBI agent traveled to Louisiana to ask a hired killer about a murder that haunted him. Then they started talking about a different case altogether."
"The demise of the English paper will end a long intellectual tradition, but it’s also an opportunity to reëxamine the purpose of higher education."
"In a disaster worse than the Titanic, it was believed a young man swam over six kilometres to safety. It didn’t add up."
"After 12 years of serving a community that seemingly willed them into existence, Bed-Vyne & Brew is closing this week."
"When Nicole DuFresne was killed in New York in 2005, the media twisted the narrative by latching onto a phrase that fell out of her mouth: 'What are you going to do, shoot us?'"
"Professor Marcia Bjornerud urges us to understand rocks as records of earlier versions of the planet—and as a call to protect its future."
"Black Americans are moving to Ghana — and driving up the cost of living for everyone around them."
Seven stories highlighting the perspective of estranged adult children.
"A great exchange rate, ChatGPT, and kimono-wearing bros have turned Kyoto into the loveliest tourist trap on earth."
"For six years, two photographers have carefully followed the canines and documented their secret lives."
"A rough-hewn A-frame in a snowscape or a tiny log shack by a lake—why off-grid, simple living has long captured the American imagination, and our online attention."
Between bouts of illness, relentless admin and crushing loneliness, many have found comfort in the 9-5 back home.
"Climate change is creating a mental health crisis in Phoenix. A budding movement in the desert might solve it."
"Shoes are deeply personal, literally moulded to our lives. But they create our social lives as much as express them."
If 😂 was a word, would that make emoji a language?
"These Louisianans are organizing to transform the stores their communities rely on."
"Women in Afghanistan are prisoners in their own homes. This is the story of Marjan, married at 12 to a Taliban fighter."
Recommending stories from Alyssa Roenigk, Rachel Monroe, Brad Rassler, Will Bahr, and Zachary B. Hancock.
"While biohacking isn’t new, the rise of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Make America Healthy Again movement . . . has given the concept renewed zeal."
"From antiquity to modern times, Rome has been entangled with the wild animals who creep, slither, scurry, and nest among its pillars and palaces."
"My neurologist says anything can be a headache. Or rather, a headache can cause anything, since all sensations start in the brain."
"The disappearance and afterlife of Lew Welch."
"Jason Landry’s disappearance confounded the state’s top investigators. When thousands of online sleuths got involved, intrigue turned into obsession."
"He embodied the traits of our great ancestors—but ended up a drug dealer who broke his family."
"If we're choosing to stay, then we're going to have to embrace that it's never going to be the same again."
"Twenty years after A Million Little Pieces became a national scandal, James Frey is ready for a new audience."
"When a 'purchasing group' won a ninety-five-million-dollar jackpot, the victory caused a scandal in a state where opposition to legal gambling remains widespread."
"Inside the fight between residents, conservationists, and governments over the most divisive and persecuted bird on the planet."
"Can a crowdsourced map of the world help save millions of people from climate disaster?"
"An evolutionary anthropologist details seasonal changes among foraging communities—and distills how the fixed political structures of industrialized societies are an outlier in human history."
This week we have stories from Suzy Hansen, Raksha Vasudevan, Linda Kinstler, Erica Berry, and Dave Denison.
"The Hague Abduction Convention was meant to reunite mothers and children. Instead, it's often used by allegedly abusive fathers to tear them apart."
"America's most popular declining sport."
Thirty-five years ago this July, an avalanche killed forty-three climbers on a mountain called Lenin Peak. I witnessed the disaster and have lived with the memories ever since."
"How Israel, with the help of the U.S., broke not only Gaza but the foundations of humanitarian law."
"Whatever else it might be, a military parade is always a reminder of how readily the armed forces can be deployed both at home and abroad."
"One of the fittest men on Earth drowned during a race in Fort Worth. How did it happen?"
"For many people, A.I. may be bringing the age of traditional text to an end."
"An arson attack in Colorado had detectives stumped. The way they solved the case could put everyone at risk."
"'Who’s calling?' the president asks as he answers call after call from numbers he doesn’t know."
"On poison, pleasure, and trust."
"Generative A.I. chatbots are going down conspiratorial rabbit holes and endorsing wild, mystical belief systems. For some people, conversations with the technology can deeply distort reality."
"How one animal’s oddity inspired Sewall Wright to take on one of Darwin’s big ideas."
"On Nathan Fielder and the rise of auto-performance."
"Why are some Iraqis so good at figuring out when a person is lying?"
Seven stories celebrating the mystery and power of fungi.
"On guns, MTV, Stephen King, and the nightmare from which we cannot awake."
"Fifty years after the last American helicopter departed Saigon, 1,572 Americans are still lost in Vietnam. This is the story of a missing Marine from Odessa, Texas, and how he was found, just in time, by government officials, a team of private researchers, and a tireless soul who dedicated her life to the search: his daughter."
"As war looms, Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon is beset by infighting over leaks, drugs, and socks. How long will Trump stand by his man?"
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