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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

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In this edition: January begins, finding beauty, powerful blues, toxic water, and...

The Strange Tale of Sigmund Freud’s Begonia

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Emma Freud recounts how receiving a begonia cutting led her to uncover...

Troubled Water

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In the Orion winter 2025/2026 issue dedicated to cryptids, Katherine Cusumano dives...

The Real Da Vinci Code

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In a fascinating story for Science, Richard Stone writes about a global...

Acid Blues (Slight Return)

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Jimi Hendrix’s music has found timeless purchase not just as transcendent music...

30 Years Later: Phyllis Hyman, “I Refuse to Be Lonely”

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Donald Trump Wants You to Forget This Happened

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This is a story about police officers who were at the US...

He Tried to Save Himself. He Killed An 11-Year-Old Instead.

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On July 8, 2023, Duprie Smith sped toward a hospital. He had...

Welcome Back to the Office. You Won’t Get Anything Done

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The COVID-19 pandemic shut down offices around the world. Ever since, employers...

The Worst Shot Ever Taken

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A Bluff City Blues

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As with many US cities last fall, Memphis became home to an...

A Calif. Teen Trusted ChatGPT For Drug Advice. He Died From an Overdose.

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In this piece for SFGATE, Lester Black and Stephen Council investigate how...