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​‘Some things are worth dying for’​

Catching up with Karl Bushby after 28 years spent walking across the world, including a perilous crossing of the Bering Strait, and finally returning home to Hull, England.

The Guardian | Simon Hattenstone

​How I became a lock picker​

A writer enters the mysterious world of dedicated "locksport" enthusiasts.

The New Yorker | Shayla Love

​The kids who identify as animals​

A sympathetic look at raising kids who identify as "therian," or partially animal in nature. “The backlash is so sharp, the stigma so heavy, that nobody would allow me to use their real name for this story. And yet the people inside it describe the opposite of damage."

Boston Magazine | Kara Baskin

​All your haunted attractions questions​

Q&A with an experienced runner of haunted attractions on what goes into making them a good experience.

Outside | Angelica Haggert

​Inside a Wrigleyville rooftop owner's fight with the Cubs​

A property dispute in Chicago asks the question: who gets to profit from a rooftop view of Wrigley Field?

ESPN | Ben Strauss

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​China according to China​

On what China is really aiming for by replacing the influence of the United States with a Pax Sinica.

Liberal Currents | Guillaume A. W. Attia

​The authoritarian future is already here​

Chilling reading from Uganda on how modern surveillance tools are enabling a brutally repressive government. [Gift link.]

The New York Times | Megan K. Stack

​The defector​

A gripping read on a Russian military lieutenant who secretly defected to the side of Ukraine and now fights against his former country. [Gift link.]

The Wall Street Journal | Matthew Luxmoore

​A remote employee refused 160 webcam photos a day​

A new lawsuit examines the limits of employer surveillance of remote workers.

Inc. | Chloe Rosenberg

​Non-fiction is struggling​

A critical look at how publishers are responding to the decline in non-fiction book sales.

The Walrus | Tajja Isen

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​Nine-inch snails​

Headline of the week, and also an interesting story about the giant snails invading Florida.

The Atlantic | Cara Giaimo

​After Alzheimer’s, we were wife, husband and husband’s new girlfriend​

A story of love and Alzheimer's in Santa Monica.

Los Angeles Times | Nita Tucker

​New gel restores dental enamel​

Good news for bad teeth.

University of Nottingham | Jane Icke

​A potato that tastes like roast chicken​

Meet the Poulette, a new variety of potato that according to chefs brings "a savory depth I’ve never tasted in a potato."

Food and Wine | Stacey Leasca

​Your potluck may be a crime in Oregon​

In Oregon news: why some local governments are cracking down on illicit potlucks.

Willamette Week | Penny Rosenberg

​Reinforced vertebrae allow plunge-diving seabirds to survive high-speed impact​

Finally, in bird news... Scientists uncover the adaptations that enable gannets to survive plunges into water at seventy miles per hour.

Phys.org | Robert Egan

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