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Category: Long-Form Worth Your Time
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Long & Good September 7, 2026: Why Is Raja Ravi Varma’s Art So Valuable Today?
In April, a painting by Raja Ravi Varma, Yashoda and Krishna, sold for 1.67 billion rupees ($17.
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Long & Good September 7, 2026: Genome Duplication Is a Radical Evolutionary Gamble
A tiny New Zealand snail, Potamopyrgus antipodarum, has undergone a whole-genome duplication within the last million years, offering a rare close view of how organisms survive and adapt to polyploidy.
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Long & Good September 7, 2026: Texas Police Used AI to Write Report About Using Flock to Search for Woman Who Had Abortion
The Johnson County Sheriff’s Office in Texas used Axon’s Draft One AI tool to help write a police report about its search for a woman who self-administered an abortion, according to documents shared with 404 Media.
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Long & Good August 31, 2026: The Building Blocks of Personhood: Oliver Sacks on Neurocognitive Pillar of What Makes Us Who We Are
Essays on Human Nature and Emotion this week: Maria Popova revisits Oliver Sacks’s 1985 classic The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat, focusing on the twelfth; and Maria Popova examines Tove Jansson’s 1957 Moomin book ‘Moominland…
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Long & Good August 24, 2026: Senators Criticize Trump Administration’s Demands to Access Health Data as a Condition for Lifesaving Aid
Eight Democratic U.S. senators, led by Raphael Warnock, have criticized the Trump administration’s demands for access to foreign health data as a condition for providing lifesaving aid.
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Long & Good August 24, 2026: Ban on Chinese robots leaves U.S. startups stranded
AI’s Impact on Business and the Environment this week: The FCC has added ‘advanced robotic devices’ to its Covered List, banning new foreign-made humanoids, quadrupeds; and Beijing dumpling shop owner Li Bo built an AI ‘skill’ that lets…
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Long & Good August 17, 2026: Inside Trump’s Failed Hunt, They’re Putting Kids Lives, More Than Half, and more
Long-Form Worth Your Time this week: ProPublica’s investigation reveals how the Trump administration repurposed Homeland Security Investigations—an; and A ProPublica and WPLN investigation reveals that Wayne Halfway House, a Tennessee…
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Long & Good August 10, 2026: Unmasking Two Butchers, 480 000 After Being Wrongly, Impossible Job Facing, and more
Long-Form Worth Your Time this week: A SIRAJ investigation, published with New Lines, identifies two former Syrian army officers—Lt.
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Long & Good August 3, 2026: Second Time Lawmakers Failed, Can we train AI, What Would It Mean
Long-Form Worth Your Time this week: A second attempt to create a searchable database of California teachers accused of misconduct has collapsed; and As monsoon floods hit Mumbai, quick-commerce platforms like Zomato use AI-driven weather…
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Long & Good July 27, 2026: Whoopi Goldberg Was
The New Yorker reviews ‘The Whoopi Monologues,’ a revival of Whoopi Goldberg’s 1980s one-woman show, now staged with five actresses embodying her iconic characters.