From Longreads
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We Need To Rewild The Internet
"The internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture. But we can revitalize it using lessons learned by ecologists."
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The Waning Reign of the Wetland Architect We Barely Know (Hint: Not a Beaver)
"The sight of a whiskered nose held just above the water, a small bow wave preceding it, never ceased to lift my spirits."
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Pieces from Benji Jones, Howard Bryant, Carey Baraka, Sally Jenkins, and Jeannette Cooperman.
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A Racial Slur and a Fort Myers High Baseball Team Torn Apart
"The avalanche of broken relationships within this baseball community at Fort Myers High . . . served as a microcosm for a polarized country."
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Riding the Baddest Bulls Made Him a Legend. Then One Broke His Neck.
"Rodeo stars find purpose in navigating primal forces. None of them ever went harder than J.B. Mauney."
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Variations on the Theme of Silence
"Without stretches of silence, you cannot hear yourself or anyone else."
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Most People Are Disgusted by These Animals. These New Yorkers Are Filling Their Homes with Them.
"In NYC, many wildlife rehabbers see pests as part of a thriving urban ecosystem."
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Inside the Kenyan Cult That Starved Itself to Death
"During covid-19 a preacher lured thousands of people into a remote forest. Then he told them to stop eating."
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Locked In, Priced Out
"The Appeal’s 9-month investigation uncovered prison commissaries’ exploitative, inconsistent systems with inside prices up to five times higher than in the community and markups as high as 600 percent."
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‘Did Something Happen to Mom When She Was Young?’
"The hidden history of the Cold War adoption complex."
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My Name Is a Mountain
On language, belonging, and embracing the different versions of ourselves.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Featuring stories from Josh Dzieza, Mark Krotov, Wendy Brenner, Paul Brown, and Andrew Normal Wilson.