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26-05-2025
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Six Memorial Day Reads
This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. This Memorial Day, catch up on Atlantic stories about an AncestryDNA test that revealed a medical secret, why public pools are in decline, 24 books to get lost in this summer, and more. Your Reading List A Woman's AncestryDNA Test Revealed a Medical Secret As a cancer patient, she had received cord-blood cells from an anonymous donor. The DNA from those cells led her to him. (From 2019) By Sarah Zhang The Decline of America's Public Pools As summers get hotter, public pools help people stay cool. Why are they so neglected? By Eve Andrews 24 Books to Get Lost in This Summer The Atlantic's writers and editors have chosen fiction and nonfiction to match all sorts of moods. The Atlantic Culture Desk My Shipwreck Story On my first time out as a commercial fisherman, my boat sank, my captain died, and I was left adrift and alone in the Pacific. By Alec Frydman $350,000 a Year, and Just Getting By Financial confessionals reveal that income inequality and geographic inequality have normalized absurd spending patterns. (From 2019) By Annie Lowrey The Wrong Way to Motivate Your Kid When children fall short, many parents' instinct is to take away something they love. That's the wrong impulse. By Russell Shaw P.S. Read 'I Remember,' the latest poem by William H. McRaven, a retired Navy admiral and the former commander of U.S. Special Operations Command: 'I remember their faces. / I cannot forget their faces.' When you buy a book using a link in this newsletter, we receive a commission. Thank you for supporting The Atlantic. Article originally published at The Atlantic
Atlantic
26-05-2025
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Six Memorial Day Reads
This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. This Memorial Day, catch up on Atlantic stories about an AncestryDNA test that revealed a medical secret, why public pools are in decline, 24 books to get lost in this summer, and more. Your Reading List A Woman's AncestryDNA Test Revealed a Medical Secret As a cancer patient, she had received cord-blood cells from an anonymous donor. The DNA from those cells led her to him. (From 2019) By Sarah Zhang The Decline of America's Public Pools As summers get hotter, public pools help people stay cool. Why are they so neglected? By Eve Andrews 24 Books to Get Lost in This Summer The Atlantic 's writers and editors have chosen fiction and nonfiction to match all sorts of moods. The Atlantic Culture Desk My Shipwreck Story On my first time out as a commercial fisherman, my boat sank, my captain died, and I was left adrift and alone in the Pacific. By Alec Frydman $350,000 a Year, and Just Getting By Financial confessionals reveal that income inequality and geographic inequality have normalized absurd spending patterns. (From 2019) By Annie Lowrey The Wrong Way to Motivate Your Kid When children fall short, many parents' instinct is to take away something they love. That's the wrong impulse. By Russell Shaw P.S. 'I remember their faces. / I cannot forget their faces.'
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24-05-2025
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An Atlantic Reading List on Consciousness
This is an edition of The Wonder Reader, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a set of stories to spark your curiosity and fill you with delight. Sign up here to get it every Saturday morning. People in a vegetative state may be far more aware than was once thought, Sarah Zhang reports in a recent feature. 'In some extraordinary patients, the line between conscious and unconscious is more permeable than one might expect,' she writes. As scientists continue to try to comprehend the inner life of unresponsive patients, their work raises questions both for those living with these conditions and for the people who love them. Can these individuals hear us, and even understand us? What do we owe them? Today's reading list explores the human mind, and what it feels like to love somebody who cannot communicate the way they once did. On the Human Mind The Mother Who Never Stopped Believing Her Son Was Still There By Sarah Zhang For decades, Eve Baer remained convinced that her son, unresponsive after a severe brain injury, was still conscious. Science eventually proved her right. Read the article. How People With Dementia Make Sense of the World By Dasha Kiper The human brain has a way of creating logic, even when it's drifting from reality. Read the article. A Scientific Feud Breaks Out Into the Open By Ross Andersen I'm a pseudoscience? No, you're a pseudoscience! Read the article. Still Curious? The Texas county where 'everybody has somebody in their family' with dementia: Risk factors for dementia usually come in clusters—and in Starr County, Texas, an almost entirely Hispanic community, they quickly stack up. How dementia locks people inside their pain: When a person feels pain but doesn't understand it, they can end up silently suffering, Marion Renault wrote in 2021. Other Diversions What the show of the summer knows about intimacy How to disappear The beauty that moral courage creates P.S. I recently asked readers to share a photo of something that sparks their sense of awe in the world. Holly S. sent this photo of Glacier National Park. I'll continue to feature your responses in the coming weeks. — Isabel Article originally published at The Atlantic
Atlantic
24-05-2025
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- Atlantic
An Atlantic Reading List on Consciousness
This is an edition of The Wonder Reader, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a set of stories to spark your curiosity and fill you with delight. Sign up here to get it every Saturday morning. People in a vegetative state may be far more aware than was once thought, Sarah Zhang reports in a recent feature. 'In some extraordinary patients, the line between conscious and unconscious is more permeable than one might expect,' she writes. As scientists continue to try to comprehend the inner life of unresponsive patients, their work raises questions both for those living with these conditions and for the people who love them. Can these individuals hear us, and even understand us? What do we owe them? Today's reading list explores the human mind, and what it feels like to love somebody who cannot communicate the way they once did. On the Human Mind The Mother Who Never Stopped Believing Her Son Was Still There By Sarah Zhang For decades, Eve Baer remained convinced that her son, unresponsive after a severe brain injury, was still conscious. Science eventually proved her right. How People With Dementia Make Sense of the World By Dasha Kiper The human brain has a way of creating logic, even when it's drifting from reality. A Scientific Feud Breaks Out Into the Open By Ross Andersen I'm a pseudoscience? No, you're a pseudoscience! Read the article. Still Curious? The Texas county where 'everybody has somebody in their family' with dementia: Risk factors for dementia usually come in clusters—and in Starr County, Texas, an almost entirely Hispanic community, they quickly stack up. How dementia locks people inside their pain: When a person feels pain but doesn't understand it, they can end up silently suffering, Marion Renault wrote in 2021. Other Diversions P.S. I recently asked readers to share a photo of something that sparks their sense of awe in the world. Holly S. sent this photo of Glacier National Park. I'll continue to feature your responses in the coming weeks.
