The Highlight Archive
Archives for December 2019
The extreme diet phenomenon may offer clues on how nutrition can treat disease.
Tips from cooks and eaters in the coldest parts of the world.
The macabre bird serves as a gentle reminder that we all return to the earth someday.
Asylum seekers face competing miseries: violence at home, and a punitive detention system with a shard of hope for relief abroad.
The first step is to be honest about your lifestyle.
What does it really take to eat noodles for a living?
Proprioception is the body’s mysterious ability to locate our limbs, even in darkness. We’re just beginning to understand it.
A sampling of our very best original photography, illustration, animation, and design this year.
A decade of tectonic change. Plus: The moments that didn’t matter, the reversal on gay marriage, and the common language of the 2010s: memes.
The internet’s weird viral ephemera provided much-needed levity, stoked fears and hate, and gave us a common language.
The decade saw a seismic shift in how society views LGBTQ people.
Four moments from the 2010s that just didn’t matter.
From the first Instagram photo to the rise of strongmen, these were the era’s 23 defining moments.
How Prohibition lives on in counties across the nation.
These days, we roll our eyes at Cats. But from the moment it opened, it was a smash.