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Jeffrey Milstein How Tall Is Too Tall?
The rise and rise and rise of the supertall skyscraper
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H. Armstrong Roberts / Classicstock / Getty / … The Pandemic Shows Us the Genius of Supermarkets
A short history of the stores that—even now—keep us supplied with an abundance of choices
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Arinze Stanley Why Witchcraft Is on the Rise
Americans’ interest in spell-casting tends to wax as instability rises and trust in establishment ideas plummets.
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Cassidy Araiza Why Everything Is Getting Louder
The tech industry is producing a rising din. Our bodies can’t adapt.
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John Cuneo The One Direction Fan-Fiction Novel That Became a Literary Sensation
Anna Todd started writing her first book, After, on her phone. Five years later, her stories are making millions of dollars around the world.
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Andy Friedman The Strange Allure of Pioneer Living
How Shaye Elliott became the Gwyneth Paltrow of America’s growing homesteading movement
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Denise Nestor The Nastiest Feud in Science
A Princeton geologist has endured decades of ridicule for arguing that the fifth extinction was caused not by an asteroid but by a series of colossal volcanic eruptions. But she’s reopened that debate.
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Alvaro Dominguez The App That Reminds You You’re Going to Die
It helped me find inner peace.
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Christie Hemm Klok Mayonnaise, Disrupted
How did Josh Tetrick’s vegan-mayo company become a Silicon Valley darling—and what is he really selling?
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Educational Images / Getty Haute Concrete
With his first building in New York, the architect Tadao Ando takes the material to new heights.
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John Cuneo Instamom
The enviable, highly profitable life of Amber Fillerup Clark, perfect mother and social-media influencer
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Olaf Blecker The Binge Breaker
Tristan Harris believes Silicon Valley is addicting us to our phones. He’s determined to make it stop.
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Mark Blinch Big in Canada: Throwing Axes for Fun
“A violently good time”
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John Cueno / The Atlantic The Test-Tube Chef
Hervé This, the father of molecular gastronomy, thinks the meals of the future should be constructed from chemical compounds.
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Wikimedia Commons Chinese Colleges Are Trying to Look Like the Ivy League
Can architecture alone give a campus an air of Western prestige?
