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Sign up for The Ed’s Up—a weekly newsletter of my writing plus some of the best stuff from around the Internet. Top picks “It is famous for fire, but you get there by water…” And so begins the best piece I’ve read this year—a masterpiece by Kathryn Schulz about wildfires, a tragedy, and our […]

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“It is famous for fire, but you get there by water…” And so begins the best piece I’ve read this year—a masterpiece by Kathryn Schulz about wildfires, a tragedy, and our relationship with nature. Achingly beautiful writing. “Things buzz. A hawk rises up on its invisible elevator and gets off at the 200th floor.”

The speculum’s history is steeped in racism and misogyny, but its design is unbeatable. Amazing piece by Rose Eveleth

“We despise them – yet we imbue them with our hopes and dreams, our dearest memories, our deepest meanings. They unlock much more than our accounts.” An wonderful bit of writing by Ian Urbina about a most mundane group of things: passwords.

For the last year, starfish on the west coast of North America have been disintegrating. Now, we may finally know why. Elizabeth Lopatto explains in this great feature about a new virus.

“My sense of who my grandfather is can be transformed...

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