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    This is a complicated and beautiful piece that seems to stand outside of time as much as it is completely of this moment. It's vivid, somehow unmediated. Its politics and its originality suggest the very young Didion.

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  2. 28 minutes ago

    Watch "Adam," a stop-motion animation composed of nearly 1,500 photographs that illuminates the neuroscience of depression while also conveying its emotive experience, from

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  3. 58 minutes ago

    Do hurricanes really make pregnant women go into labor? asks Adrienne LaFrance

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    Thanks to its aerial roots covered in microbe-rich mucus, an indigenous Mexican corn can draw its own fertilizer from the air, Ed Yong reports

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    How does it feels to be a problem? asked W.E.B. Du Bois in The Atlantic in 1897

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    A victory for the right to pee standing up, by Uri Friedman

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    In North Carolina, the government has already weakened environmental protections, writes Alana Semuels

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  8. 4 hours ago

    A diary of love and emotional abuse, from Olga Khazan

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    The real story of how America became an economic superpower, from David Frum

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  10. 5 hours ago

    An inside look at a juvenile detention facility, by

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  11. 5 hours ago

    When do you become an adult? Julie Beck on the line between childhood and adulthood:

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    7 hours ago

    William T. Vollman's hostile reader "regards with implacable contempt her ancestors, who, as Vollmann tells her, 'enjoyed the world we possessed, and deserved the world we left you.'" 's chilling review of Vollman's latest, Carbon Ideologies:

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  13. 6 hours ago

    Why we tend to show our left side in pictures: This shows how centuries of art sheds light on a small scientific mystery

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    Sep 5

    My latest for explores a quandary that persists even as the two-working parent household becomes the norm: Why, in 2018, does the school day hardly ever match the work day?

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    How to kill a superbug, by

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    7 hours ago

    "The events of the U.S. Open show both how difficult it can be for women of color to be accepted as they are, and just how thoroughly she has rejected the status quo." on the grace of Serena Williams in the face of absurd double standards:

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  17. 7 hours ago

    The tragic neglect of chronic fatigue syndrome, by Olga Khazan

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    Nice piece by :

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    What it's like to live with a neurological disorder that renders people unable to form cognitive maps—a world where you'll be forever lost, by

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    Sep 8

    “I’m here to fight for women’s rights and women’s equality...The fact that I have to go through this is an example. Maybe it didn’t work out for me, but it’s going to work out for the next person.” Serena Williams

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