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"In devoting my attention to the distant past, I planned to finally deepen my understanding of this planet I took for granted." Read Elena Megalos's "The Age of Dinosaurs," a new Longreads visual essay https://longreads.com/2026/03/31/age-…
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"When I cross the Bay Bridge I often glance south, to where the huge cargo ships seem monumental and still, as if the arrangement were permanent, as if the vessels were knights and bishops resting on water as solid and stable as a chessboa…
"I wonder about inertia and all the forces that push back on these men as hard as they try to push into the direction of their desires. I think about the arches that should have supported their weight and wonder what happened that was too …
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"I grew up in Virginia, and the statues and the inhumane ideas they celebrated shadowed my childhood. But seeing these figures here, now, sitting in their temporary new home, as if they were naughty children in a timeout, was surprisingly …
"He played music through earplugs—the Rolling Stones, Tchaikovsky—at minimum volume. Then he centered himself. When he could hear the music, he could hear his own heartbeat, and he was ready to suffer." — Sean Williams for Outside https://…
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