‘Mild’ tofu, ‘mild’ carrots, ‘mild’ pine nuts: my five-year quest to understand German taste
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Our US disaster recovery system must evolve to respond more effectively to climate change
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Following a family mystery to Iceland's remotest village – in his grandfather's footsteps, Oliver Smith heads to a tiny off-grid community at the tip of the Hornstrandir peninsula
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We only learnt of our son’s secret online life after he died at 20
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I quit teaching because of ChatGPT
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Uber almost got me killed!
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Why I’ve tracked every single piece of clothing I’ve worn for three years
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Is it a red flag that I don’t have any childhood friends?
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An Israeli and a Palestinian discuss 7 October, Gaza – and the future
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I've been to all fifty states, and I've unexpectedly fallen in love with these seven cities
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I walked away from my job as a queer educator
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I never expected to run for office—here's what I learned
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Personally protecting a piece of prairie
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I went to Iceland for a road trip. I left with climate anxiety.
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Looking for alternatives to flying, Matilda Welin decided to embark on a long-distance cycle from London to Sweden. Here's what she learned.
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The lights don’t just go out: A lifelong fainter on how fiction gets fainting all wrong
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The best and brightest don’t want to stay in Canada. I should know: I’m one of the few in my engineering class who did.
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I was an MIT educated neurosurgeon. Now I'm unemployed and alone in the mountains. How did I get here?
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The time I built an ROV to solve missing person cases
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What my adult autism diagnosis finally explained
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The Donald Trump I saw on The Apprentice
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Things the guys who stole my phone have texted me to try to get me to unlock it
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What my dog taught me about mortality
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'I was misidentified as shoplifter by facial recognition tech'
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Weighing in on "Man or Bear" - from a woman that left society to the Alaskan wilderness
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I gave up meat and gained so much more | A tale of one person's life, culture, and growing up
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The parents in my classroom
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I was the poster girl for OCD. Then I began to question everything I’d been told about mental illness.
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Chinese woman in Beijing goes on one hundred blind dates per year
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Concussion treatment: the insidious myth about resting protocols that even doctors still believe
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What I did when my art got stolen (I got help from lawyers and posted on social media)
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I always knew I was different. I just didn’t know I was a sociopath.
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Reinventing myself at 55: From commando to interior designer to miniature artist
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How I taught the Iliad to Chinese teenagers
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The day I put $50,000 in a shoe box and handed it to a stranger
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How Cory Doctorow got scammed (and why AI will make it worse)
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Over three decades, tech obliterated media - my front-row seat to a slow-moving catastrophe
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It took divorce to make my marriage equal – I spent twelve years fighting for an equal partnership, when what I needed was a divorce [2020]
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‘An experiment in ritual humiliation’: would a month of rejection therapy make me fearless?
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I rent a million-dollar home: Why can’t I buy one?
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Coming of age at the dawn of the social internet (LiveJournal, AIM, and other pre-Facebook internet things)
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Can ‘micro-acts of joy’ make you happier? I tried them for seven days.
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My disabled son’s amazing gaming life in the World of Warcraft (2019)
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Experience: I own the world’s oldest living cat
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My parents’ dementia felt like the end of joy. But when they got sick, I turned to a new generation of roboticists—and their glowing, talking, blobby creations.
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I’ve been stopped and searched by the police since I was sixteen
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After 800 years, volcanic activity has returned to Reykjanes – Andri Snær Magnason reflects on the Icelandic relationship with volcanoes
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My doomed career as a North Korean novelist
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How to stop an Icelandic whale hunt – Elissa Phillips and Anahita Babaei on chaining themselves to the crow's nests of whaling vessels for thirty-three hours
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Here’s what happened when I taught a fly-fishing course in the waterways of New Orleans
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