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…understood, find any of this moving. What she finds it is necessary. This is the Coastal Lights Oral History Project, and for three years it has been doing two things at once, against two different clocks. The first…
Science · Evolution
…is. On the Tuesday I visited, in November, that someone was Noor Hadid, a 26-year-old doctoral student with a pencil behind one ear and a habit of reading each flask’s label aloud before she touches it. The…
Ideas · Essay
…come to think, is where the real philosophy of maintenance lives. A more recent strand of moral thought begins not with rules or consequences but with an inconvenient fact, which is that every one of us was…
Ideas · Essay
…then the unemployed have not earned theirs, and their free time curdles into idleness—a moral failing rather than a circumstance. The sick are told to rest as though rest were a prescription rather than a…