Media
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Apr 20, 2026
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8 min read
Plus: mysterious "little red dots" baffling JWST astronomers, a disabled mother's search for self-forgiveness, and whether our ancestors felt pain like we do.
Profiles
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Apr 16, 2026
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6 min read
Plus: the Sims creator's decade-long quest to map the human psyche, the Penn State hazing death that could have been stopped, and two 58-year-olds training for Everest.
Media
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Apr 15, 2026
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7 min read
Plus: why understanding how AI "thinks" matters, a philosopher on why we've turned everything into a means to an end, and the five engineers who tried to stop Challenger.
Culture
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Apr 14, 2026
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8 min read
Plus: The Atlantic's verdict on America's best free restaurant bread, how Sony destroyed the Alamo Drafthouse, and fake Keytruda vials killing cancer patients in Mexico and Nepal.
Culture
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Apr 13, 2026
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7 min read
Plus: a Russian academic's battle to renounce his citizenship after Ukraine, the anonymous model behind a global feminist icon, and a hospital chain that never set aside a dollar for malpractice.
Culture
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Apr 10, 2026
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8 min read
Plus: how 1980s mergers turned law firms into billable-hour machines, Virginia's high-stakes gerrymandering referendum, and peptide vials found to contain lead and endotoxins.