A glimpse into the past and future of kites, including creations that resemble “things that shouldn’t be flown on a kite.”
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“I asked her what it was like to have her husband home again, piled up in her driveway.” On composting a loved one.
↩︎ Harper’s
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Apart from the Clinton piece on Mandela (which, typical of the tradition here, reduces the former guerrilla to saintly grandfather) and the Pitt “interview” with Tutu, there is nothing that captures some of th…
A four-print series by George Baxter, featuring some ill-equipped mountaineers, helped fuel the 19th-century Mont Blanc craze.
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Archeologists discover a 90- to 120,000-year-old leather and fur production site, the earliest evidence of human clothing.
↩︎ Smithsonian Magazine
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Illustrating different forms of decentralization.
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Revisiting Marie Calloway, who left publishing and the internet just as her influence began reshaping both.
↩︎ BuzzFeed News
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Feds bypass the controversy over “keyword warrant” dragnets, issuing a sealed, secret order to Google.
↩︎ Forbes
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