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January/February 2020

Our first issue of 2020 features a story that goes inside the luxury cannabis industry, plus: hacking diabetes with apps and looking to YouTube for love.

A blonde woman smokes a joint, surrounded by photos of various cannabis and wellness paraphernalia (weed brownies, a pipe, green juice, tea, and a bowl full of greens)
Business / January/February 2020

Is Cannabis the Answer to Everything?

January 15, 2020March 9, 2021 - by Lauren McKeon

Weed has been rebranded as a cure-all for modern life. As a stressed-out, overworked thirtysomething, I decided to try it out for myself

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Catriona smiles at the camera against a background of bright orange.
January/February 2020 / Poetry

Seasonal Affective Disorder

January 10, 2020January 10, 2020 - by Catriona Wright

We haven’t awakened / anything this year or not / that thing I wanted most

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A silhouette of a woman reading a book in profile. The woman's silhouette is filled with trees in a forest; the book's silhouette is filled with factory buildings belching smoke. The woman looks shocked.
Books / January/February 2020

Climate Fiction’s Unhelpful Obsession with the End of the World

January 9, 2020October 8, 2020 - by Damian Tarnopolsky

We already have plenty of stories about the apocalypse. Now, we need ones that imagine new futures

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A pair of hands attempts to plug in an insulin pump, but the screen displays a red sad face. The hands are surrounded by syringes and pills against a mint-green background.
Health / January/February 2020

Hacking Diabetes

January 7, 2020June 22, 2020 - by Jonathan Garfinkel

A network of amateur programmers is transforming the illness with a DIY app

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Fiction / January/February 2020

Saturday Project

January 3, 2020March 27, 2020 - by P.N. Van Den Bosch

It’s true: Laura listens well and says just enough at the right times. Geoff has even seen her do this and thought nothing of it. Still, he senses an undertone in Marcus’s gratitude

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January/February 2020 / Technology

How YouTube Gives Us Love without the Messiness

January 2, 2020August 4, 2020 - by Michael Harris

Meet the online community providing millions with illusions of intimacy

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A brown kitchen chair seated at a round table, covered in a yellow checked tablecloth. On the table are two glasses of wine, a slice of cake, and several face-down playing cards with the ace of spades facing up.
January/February 2020

How Euchre Healed My Family

December 12, 2019March 27, 2020 - by Jessica Myshrall

We have played through illness, arguments, divorces, and death

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