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The Highlight Archive

Archives for July 2019

The dating algorithm that gives you just one match
Culture

The Marriage Pact is designed to help college students find their perfect “backup plan.”

By Zoe Schiffer
The war to free science
Explainers

How librarians, pirates, and funders are liberating the world’s academic research from paywalls.

By Brian Resnick and Julia Belluz
“TV has transformed as much as I have”
Culture

Critic Emily Nussbaum on the charms of modern television-watching.

By Hope Reese
A boom in at-home abortions is coming
Health Care

Advocates say “self-managed abortions” are safe — and in the current political environment, interest is rising.

By Anna North
How your brain invents morality
Neuroscience

Neurophilosopher Patricia Churchland explains her theory of how we evolved a conscience.

By Sigal Samuel
A changing America finally demands that the Central Park Five prosecutors face consequences
Race

The men were exonerated in 2002. Why did Linda Fairstein only face widespread public outcry after When They See Us retold the story?

By Alissa Wilkinson
How prayer helped me detox from the internet
Culture

It’s become a necessary break from the digital churn.

By Avital Chizhik-Goldschmidt
A math equation that predicts the end of humanity
Future Perfect

How much longer till we all die off? 760 years, give or take.

By William Poundstone
The strike that brought teachers unions back from the dead
Education

When these Chicagoans walked off the job in 2012, they changed the future of organizing.

By Dylan Scott
The legal limbo of lost embryos
Health Care

More than once, the freezer tanks that secure families’ hopes have failed. Courts may fail these families too.

By Dov Fox
I was a child of Chernobyl
The Highlight

The 1986 Russian disaster isn’t just compelling TV. It was my life.

By Sophia Moskalenko
I paid $47 an hour for someone to be my friend
The Highlight

Is this a cure for the loneliness epidemic?

By Jean-Luc Bouchard