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- Jul 30, 2026
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What Is It Like to Be a Cucumber? - Longreads (opens the original)
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I’d be lying if I said I understand everything Michael Levin believes. But I’m also not alone; sometimes his own colleagues can’t even follow his arguments. Elizabeth Weil’s profile of the renegade (and genius) biologist bridges that gap, sketching out Levin’s research and claims in a way that’s just grokkable enough to blow your mind. I mean this as a true compliment: When’s the last time we had a genuine mad scientist on our hands? Critics accuse Levin of all kinds of teleological crimes — mak
“Spaceballs: The Clickbait”—Inside the Return of Rick Moranis at Comic-Con - Longreads (opens the original)
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First off: This isn’t a Rick Moranis profile. I know you want it to be—we all want it to be—but it’s not. Maybe one day we’ll get the deep, rich look at a man who’s beloved by millions of comedy fans but who also stepped out of the public eye more than 30 years ago. Until then, there’s the fact that Moranis will be part of next year’s Spaceballs sequel, and as such was game enough to show up at San Diego Comic-Con over the weekend (where, predictably, Hall H chaos ensued). Anthony Breznican was
The Children Who Loved a Killer - Longreads (opens the original)
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When Steven Judy was executed for rape and murder in 1981, he was little more to the public than a monster. To Traci and Randy Carr, he was something else: a hero and a protector. After all, he was their foster brother. For The Guardian, Masha Hamilton—who covered the Judy trial as a young reporter more than 45 years ago—returns to Indiana to meet the Carrs, and to take the measure of the hole rent in their lives by Judy’s actions and disappearance. Her mother has begun appearing again in her sl
Elite Young Runners Are Becoming Freakishly Fast. Welcome to ‘Trackflation’ - Longreads (opens the original)
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I have a vague eighth-grade memory of trying to run 400 meters in under a minute. The operative word here, of course, is “trying.” But what eluded me then is nothing for the middle- and high-school kids of today, who are shattering track records on a weekly basis. Some of that is sneaker technology, some of it is training, some of it seems to be an intense competitive drive fueled by social media. Whatever it is, Brendan I. Koerner has seen it in his own kids—and now he throws himself into the w
Little Monsters - Longreads (opens the original)
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Parenting isn’t easy, especially when your kids don’t respond to conventional tactics. But Meghan Flaherty has a trick up her gauntlet: a lifelong love of fantasy and role-playing games. To the dungeon—and a quest to unlock her eight-year-old’s sense of self! I look around the table at these kids and at the teenagers and noobs at this suburban shopping center bookstore. Maybe some of them get bullied. Maybe some of them can pass as cool. But there is something pure in their expressions, somethin
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