How Your Cup of Coffee Is Clearing the Jungle

“However it happened, anywhere between 20,000 and 130,000 people — estimates range wildly — are farming illegally within Bukit Barisan Selatan.”

Published: Aug 11, 2021
Length: 26 minutes (6,682 words)

Out of Control

“How the pandemic laid bare America’s diabetes crisis.”

Source: Reuters
Published: Aug 12, 2021
Length: 20 minutes (5,075 words)

How the Pandemic Ends

“Here, then, is the current pandemic dilemma: Vaccines remain the best way for individuals to protect themselves, but societies cannot treat vaccines as their only defense.”

Author: Ed Yong
Source: The Atlantic
Published: Aug 12, 2021
Length: 15 minutes (3,912 words)

What Mike Fanone Can’t Forget

“There is a thin blue line between order and chaos, and at that moment, Mike Fanone was it.”

Author: Molly Ball
Source: Time Magazine
Published: Aug 5, 2021
Length: 26 minutes (6,745 words)

Hidden Nashville

“It’s things that people never consider about homeless people. Like not having a pillow. I cannot describe to you how it feels to lay down in my own bed with a pillow. I’m just so grateful for a pillow, because I went so long without one.”

Published: Aug 10, 2021
Length: 13 minutes (3,425 words)

‘I Found Your Mom’

In October 2020, 41 years after his mother’s disappearance, Paul Wulff received an unexpected phone call.

Source: ESPN
Published: Aug 10, 2021
Length: 19 minutes (4,978 words)

Ghosts

“I didn’t know how to write about my sister’s death—so I had AI do it for me.”

Source: The Believer
Published: Aug 9, 2021
Length: 23 minutes (5,992 words)

A Dog’s Inner Life: What a Robot Pet Taught Me About Consciousness

“‘Clearly this is not a biological dog,’ my husband said. He asked whether I had realised that the red light beneath its nose was not just a vision system but a camera, or if I’d considered where its footage was being sent. While I was away, he told me, the dog had roamed around the apartment in a very systematic way, scrutinising our furniture, our posters, our closets. It had spent 15 minutes scanning our bookcases and had shown particular interest, he claimed, in the shelf of Marxist criticism.”

Source: The Guardian
Published: Aug 10, 2021
Length: 16 minutes (4,208 words)

After Two Teen Suicides Last Year, How Will Summit County Address an Ongoing Mental Health Crisis?

“A tragic stretch in April 2020 shone a light on the mental health issues facing the mountain community. With the new school year set to start, area residents are continuing to heal while asking themselves how they can learn from the past.”

Source: 5280 Magazine
Published: Aug 1, 2021
Length: 19 minutes (4,821 words)

Thousands of Patients Were Implanted With Heart Pumps That the FDA Knew Could Be Dangerous

“Inspectors repeatedly found manufacturing and device quality problems with the HeartWare heart pump. But the FDA did not penalize the company, and patients had the device implanted on their hearts without knowing the facts.”

Author: Neil Bedi
Source: ProPublica
Published: Aug 5, 2021
Length: 20 minutes (5,233 words)