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3 stories match “food”

1. Ideas · Work

   What We Owe the Night Shift

   …miss the start of a shift. If he runs early, somebody waits 59 minutes in the dark. Consider food. At my mother’s hospital the canteen closed at eight in the evening and reopened at seven in the morning, so that…

   Mika Sato · Nov 4, 2025 · 6 min read

2. Science · Biodiversity

   Who Checks on the Seeds?

   …Inside the coat is an embryo—a root, a shoot, a leaf or two, folded small—and a store of food to start it off, and for most of the crops people eat, the whole package has been shaped by evolution to dry out…

   Ilona Varga · Oct 11, 2026 · 14 min read

3. Culture · Film

   Finishing a Film Its Director Abandoned in 1974

   …they had to be baked at low heat for a day and a half, in what is essentially a laboratory food dehydrator, before the oxide would stay on them long enough to be played. Five are missing. One of them is tape…

   Funmi Adeyemi · Aug 27, 2026 · 13 min read