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This week's Top 5:

* Subsea storytelling (Wired)
* Preservation paradox @hackernoon
* Serpentine symbiosis (Oxford American)
* Investigating infinity @QuantaMagazine
* Marijuana mystery @sfgate

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This week's Top 5:

* Gambling's grip (Harper's Magazine)
* Of plumes and poachers (The Bitter Southerner)
* Bemoaning Americans in Rome (The Dial)
* Magical history tour (Texas Monthly)
* Fake poultry flinger (Slate)

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Here's what we have for you in this week's Top 5:

• Midair mayhem (The New Statesman)
• Know when to fold 'em (Slate)
• For art's sake (The Economist)
• Breech of trust (The Guardian)
• May it trees the court (Harper's Magazine)

Learn why our editors have recommended these pieces and find out which story our audience loved most.

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In this week's Top 5:
* Rise of the machines (New York Review of Architecture)
* Help me, Seymour! (Garden & Gun)
* Crossing the party line (Equator)
* A powerful instrument (https://frankchimero.com)
* Turn, turn, turn (Emergence Magazine)

Hear from our editors on each story, and find out this week's audience favorite!

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Here's what we've got for you in our Weekly Top 5:

* Media mistrust (Harper's Magazine)
* Hunting identity (The Bitter Southerner)
* Meat and pota-woes (Serious Eats)
* Celebrating cinephilia @lrb
* Knightley news (The Times)

Learn why our editors have recommended these pieces and find out which story our audience loved most.

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Here's what we've got for you in our Weekly Top 5:

* Subsidizing carnage (The Local)
* “Best” American poetry (Defector)
* Frail fibers (The Guardian)
* A crabby savior (The American Scholar)
* Feline fealty (The Sun Magazine)

Learn why our editors have recommended these pieces and find out which story our audience loved most.

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Here's what we've got for you in our Weekly Top 5:

* The legend of the levee boss (The American Scholar)
* Identity in the age of AI (Harper's Magazine)
* The rules of Rave Club (The Fence Magazine)
* Studying philosophy in prison (Aeon)
* French fry why (Toronto Life)

Learn why our editors have recommended these pieces and find out which story our audience loved most.

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Here's what we've got for you in our Weekly Top 5:

* The politics of pools (Earth Island Journal)
* Not so nice mining ice (The Walrus)
* Ultrarunning scamp or champ? (5280 Magazine)
* Tom fauxlery (The Verge)
* Smells like snail spirit (Texas Monthly)

Learn why our editors have recommended these pieces and find out which story our audience loved most.

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Here's what we've got for you in our Weekly Top 5:

• Symbiosis steeped in irony (Washington Post)
• The hidden lives of rocks (Atmos)
• Journalism’s facts machine (The Yale Review)
• What’s up, sun? (Noēma)
• Puzzling through problems (The American Scholar)

Learn why our editors have recommended these pieces and find out which story our audience loved most.

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Here's what we've got for you in our Weekly Top 5:

* A first-person flood account (Texas Monthly)
* Californians icing ICE @RollingStone
* Sexually diverse vegetables (Noēma)
* Pokémon: Go! (Virginia Quarterly Review)
* Polo clonies (Wired)

Learn why our editors have recommended these pieces and find out which story our audience loved most.

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Here's what we've got for you in our Weekly Top 5:

* Wildfire: too close and personal (Alta Journal)
* Running from demons (The Economist)
* Experiments in microdosing (5280 Magazine)
* Reading is hard (Vox)
* "Jackass" as a love language (Bright Wall/Dark Room)

Learn why our editors have recommended these pieces and find out which story our audience loved most.

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Here's what we've got for you in our Weekly Top 5:

* Tracking greed (n+1 Magazine)
* Teaching through terminal illness (Stanford Magazine)
* Pivoting as a pastor (The New York Times)
* Reading poetry, closely (Slate)
* Breaking bad loading habits (The Atlantic)

Learn why our editors have recommended these pieces and find out which story our audience loved most.

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Here's what we've got for you in our Weekly Top 5:

* Long COVID camaraderie (Men's Health)
* Breeding terrorists on Telegram @ProPublica / Frontline
* 737 Max coverup (Wired)
* Petrusich profiles Dacus (The New Yorker)
* The Irish pub as export (Smithsonian Magazine)

Learn why our editors have recommended these pieces and find out which story our audience loved most.

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Here's what we've got for you in our Weekly Top 5:

* Propagate language, preserve culture (Noēma)
* Hip-hop hooch hustles (Taste)
* Grieving a landscape lost (Salvation South)
* A gutsy take on indigestion (VQR)
* All the feels for the forums (The Fence)

Learn why our editors have recommended these pieces and find out which story our audience loved most.

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Here's what we've got for you in our Weekly Top 5:

* Dying to seek asylum in Canada (The Local)
* The rise of UFC @RollingStone
* Hoarding at the British Museum (The Guardian)
* A mystery at Lake Tahoe (Bay Nature)
* Dog dialogue (NYT Mag)

Learn why our editors have recommended these pieces and find out which story our audience loved most.

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Here's what we've got for you in our Weekly Top 5:

* An opioid town’s turnaround @nymag
* A love letter to cardboard (Places Journal)
* The chemicals animals provide (Works in Progress)
* Computerized companions @verge
* The transfiguration of Jude Law (British GQ)

Learn why our editors have recommended these pieces and find out which story our audience loved most.

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Here's what we've got for you in our Weekly Top 5:

* The endorphins of community @nymag
* Environmentalism and the far right @ProPublica
* Richard Gadd, post-Baby Reindeer (British GQ)
* Documenting graves as a hobby @slate
* Revolutionary bike riders in Afghanistan (Bicycling Magazine)

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Here's what we've got for you in our Weekly Top 5:

* Ta-Nehisi Coates on necessary truths @nymag
* The rise of Russian poker bots (Bloomberg Businessweek)
* Searching for interplanetary life (The Washington Post)
* The real predator in the woods (The Bitter Southerner)
* Letting horror movies be horror movies (The Baffler)

Learn why our editors have recommended these pieces and find out which story our audience loved most.

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Here's what we've got for you in our Weekly Top 5:

* Suffering from environmental illness at Harper's Magazine
* The double-edged sword that is social media at The Walrus
* Uncovering painful family secrets @nymag
* Jail library book treasures at Split Lip Magazine
* Cooking as a free man @sfgate

Learn why our editors have recommended these pieces and find out which story our audience loved most.

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Here's what we've got for you in our Weekly Top 5:

* The preventable toll of youth football @RollingStone
* Professional whistleblowing for profit at GQ
* Survivalist hideouts for sale at The New Yorker
* The consultant con at n+1 magazine
* Discovering new bee species at @hakaimagazine

Learn why our editors have recommended these pieces and find out which story our audience loved most.

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Here's what we've got for you in our Weekly Top 5:

* A Bitcoin-fuelled health nightmare at Time Magazine
* Oil's hidden history in Los Angeles at Noema Magazine
* Buying fentanyl components online at Reuters
* Preservation over profit in Alberta, Canada @thenarwhal / The Globe and Mail
* Wayfinding with hand-drawn maps at The New York Times

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Here's what we've got for you in our Weekly Top 5:

* The consequences of speaking out (Bookforum)
* The violence of Sean Combs (New York Times Magazine)
* Marilyn Munroe vs. Palm Springs, CA (@slate)
* On caring for a partner with Alzheimer’s (The Guardian)
* Why pooping on the moon is crappy (Wired)

Learn why our editors have recommended these pieces and find out which story our audience loved most.

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Here's what we've got for you in our Weekly Top 5:

* How sickle cell patients are pressured into sterilization @STAT
* How opioid restrictions harm the terminally ill (The Baffler)
* The enshittification of bowling (The Lever)
* The sudden ubiquity of steroids (GQ)
* Why sperm is a hot commodity (The Guardian)

Learn why our editors have recommended these pieces and find out which story our audience loved most.

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Here's what we've got for you in our Weekly Top 5:

* Student protesters in their own words.
* Dance as freedom from disability.
* Wealth disparity in Big Sky, Montana.
* The Anthropocene as earth’s final epoch.
* Birthing a Cabbage Patch Doll.

Learn why our editors have recommended these pieces and find out which story our audience loved most.

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The Weekly Top 5 is here! In this week's edition:

• How Israel uses AI for assassination in the Gaza War
• A father reflects on his son’s development
• The rise of the term, “gaslighting”
• Toni Morrison’s expansive rejection letters
• The history of PostSecret

Learn why our editors have recommended these pieces and find out which story our audience loved most.

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In this week's Top 5 we're highlighting stories about:

- Interracial persecution in 1960s Michigan
- The cruelty bred into the chickens we eat
- How Photo Shuffle helped one man through loss
- Navigating life not knowing you’re neurodivergent
- The deep craft in forging a handmade knife

All this and the piece our audience loved most!

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In this week's Top 5 we're highlighting stories about:

- Restorative justice.
- Donated bodies allegedly sold at Harvard.
- An ER doctor who recognized her own catastrophic symptoms.
- A fascinating career pivot.
- Seven chimpanzees on the lam.

All this and the piece our audience loved the most in our weekly top 5.

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