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  1. Longreads @[email protected] ·

    "I think this is important: memories and ideas happen in a place. An essay is a place for ideas; it has to feel like a place. It has to give one the feeling of entering a room." —Elisa Gabbert for The Georgia Review

    thegeorgiareview.com/posts/the

    #Longreads #EditorsPicks #Essays #PersonalEssays #Architecture

    #longreads #editorspicks #essays #personalessays #architecture
  2. Longreads @[email protected] ·

    "To create a sense of moral desirability for something as mundane as a vacuum cleaner is, whether you like it or not, tremendously clever; it’s a highly effective way to extrapolate personal household cleanliness into a much broader global concern about environmental purity." —Alexis Ong visits Dyson for The Verge
    theverge.com/2023/5/22/2373274

    #Longreads #EditorsPicks #Dyson #TheVerge #Cleaning #Vacuums #PostPandemic

    #longreads #editorspicks #dyson #theverge #cleaning #vacuums
  3. Longreads @[email protected] ·

    "His style is to step back, take a look at how many supercentenarians there have been, and figure out when they lived and died. The limits of human longevity won’t be found by looking at individuals, he believes, but by examining super-long-lived people collectively."

    @mattreynolds for @WIRED

    wired.com/story/human-age-limi

    #Longreads #EditorsPicks #Aging #Centenarians #Longevity #Science

    #longreads #editorspicks #aging #centenarians #longevity #science