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​It's been a minute​

Obituary for Minute Maid's frozen concentrated orange juice, a twentieth century food innovation now making its way into its final punches and marinades.

Slate | N. C. Stevens

​Does anyone remember Laura Nyro?​

Profile of the elusive songwriter most famous for "Wedding Bell Blues" and songs turned into hits by other artists, and the subject of an upcoming documentary.

Rolling Stone | Angie Martoccio

​What I found when I tried to walk across Dallas in a day​

Traversing the length of car-centric Dallas on foot, in words and photos.

Texas Monthly | Jeffrey McWhorter

​Are strings still our best hope for a theory of everything?​

New developments in string theory push back against skeptics' claims that it's "not even wrong."

Quanta | Natalie Wolchover

​No Kings is taking back Americana​

On the current state of Portland protests and how "[the] flag, the Constitution, the heartland, and the suburbs are being implicitly claimed by anti-Trumpism."

The Verge | Sarah Jeong

​In criminal justice, we get what we pay for​

Incentives matter, especially when public defenders are paid by the case rather than for their time or the quality of their work.

Liberalism.org | Radley Balko

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​Easy-to-use solar panels are coming​

Following Germany's lead, more Americans may soon be allowed to draw power from plug-in solar panels, but utility companies are putting up delays.

NPR | Jeff Brady

​Who gets to live in a single family home?​

A defense of corporations owning build-to-rent homes and the dangers of laws that may restrict supply.

The Atlantic | Henry Grabar

​AI might be our best shot at taking back the open web​

An argument that AI will bring openness and excitement back to the web by empowering users to build their own tools and communities.

Techdirt | Mike Masnick

​Trippy tobacco?​

Scientists engineer tobacco plants to make five psychedelics at once—for legitimate research and medicinal purposes.

Science | Erik Stokstad

​Singapore's "totalitarian" vape ban​

Meanwhile in Singapore, selling nicotine e-cigarettes will punishable by up to six years in prison, and supplying vapes with other psychoactive substances punishable by caning.

Filter | Kiran Sidhu

​US whiskey exports to EU plunge 35%​

Trump's trade war has hammered the American whiskey industry, with plummeting exports to Europe and a complete moratorium on American spirits imports in most of Canada.

The Spirits Business | Nicola Carruthers

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​How metrics make us miserable​

Podcast interview with philosopher C. Thi Nguyen, author of the new book The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else’s Game.

The Ringer | Derek Thompson

​"Project Hail Mary" shows what real heroism looks like​

Why the movie is better than the book and much better than the current state of global cooperation. (Spoilers abound!)

The American Prospect | Ryan Cooper

​Volunteers in helicopter rescue hiker's dog​

The story of a dramatic rescue of a very good dog on a hiking trail in New Zealand.

The New York Times | John Yoon

​Who let the wolves in?​

And new research places the domestication of dogs 5,000 years earlier than previously known.

Nature | Ewen Callaway

​An unstoppable mushroom is tearing through North American forests​

On the golden oyster mushroom, a fungus that escaped cultivation to invade America.

BBC | Mohamed Madi

​The birds that run the land​

And in bird news... on the long ecological relationships between birds and humans around the world.

Foreign Policy | Asher Elbein

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