Just as it is impossible for me to articulate with any certainty the moment I entered adulthood or began to believe that human life on Earth would not last past the twenty-second century, I cannot tell you when I first became aware of Shen Yun. The…

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Bullied as a child in school in the 1980s, Canadian poet George Murray found solace in the make-believe world of Dungeons & Dragons, where he could become “a seven-foot-tall warrior who could punch the face off a troll.” At The…

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In Hakai magazine, Ben Goldfarb has written the most interesting article on legal tensions around seaweed harvesting in Maine you'll read all week. Or is it about tensions around harvesting fish? It's unclear, thanks to Maine's hot but biologically…

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Shannon Stirone | Longreads | March 2018 | 22 minutes (5,546 words) The power has just gone out in mission control. I look to Jim McClure, operations manager at the Space Flight Operations Facility, and he assures me that everything is fine. A…

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In this poignant piece for Outside, longtime runner Christopher Solomon considers loss and the body's inevitable decline as he recounts how his father helped him fall in love with running, what running has meant to him over the decades, and the…

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