"Frank must have known that radiating his family could cause harm. He must have thought that the risks were small and the benefits great." Hanna Saltzman for Virginia Quarterly Review https://www.vqronline.org/summer-2026/essays/rays-wonder #medicine #history #family #xrays #radiology #longreads
#longreads — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #longreads, aggregated by home.social.
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"Sonia and KwangDal named their company Baeekyang Gimo, which loosely translates to 'White Lamb Flannel.' While KwangDal operated the machinery, Sonia ran the business."
Yoon Kim for Outside:
https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-gear/clothing-apparel/grandmother-flannel/#Longreads #Textiles #Flannel #Cotton #Korea #Seoul #Business #History
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"Similarly, in many modern classrooms, individual desires and personalities, physical needs, and multiple ways of knowing are dismissed in favor of a uniform cognitive mode of mastering abstract concepts. The body is incidental."
Sarah Menkedick for Earth Island Journal: https://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/magazine/entry/bright-star
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An excerpt from The Atavist Magazine's new story by Alessio Perrone and Berber Verpoest, on the rise and fall of one of Belgium's top cops: https://longreads.com/2026/11/10/belgium-cop-drug-trade/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
#Longreads #Journalism #Belgium #TrueCrime #Police #Cops #LawEnforcement
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The AI Safety Debate Has Lost the Plot. We Asked 10 Experts What the Real Nightmares Are
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Tear Down Those Guardrails! Meet the Renegades Freeing Chatbots From Corporate Enslavers