– Ross Andersen en The Atlantic: «Welcome to Pleistocene Park«. In Arctic Siberia, Russian scientists are trying to stave off catastrophic climate change—by resurrecting an Ice Age biome complete with lab-grown woolly mammoths

– David Epstein en ProPublica: «The DIY Scientist, the Olympian, and the Mutated Gene«: How a woman whose muscles disappeared discovered she shared a disease with a muscle-bound Olympic medalist.

– Amy Ellis Nutt en The Washington Post: «Truth and transgender at age 70«. A couple’s journey through gender-affirmation surgery.

– Alex Finley en Politico: «How the CIA Forgot the Art of Spying«. With the war on terror came a new, more militarized way of gathering intelligence. But now, America needs the kind of spooks who can work the cocktail party circuit—more James Bond, less Jason Bourne.

– Julian B. Gewirts en The American Scholar: «Milton Friedman’s Misadventures in China» The stubborn advocate of free markets tangles with the ideologues of a state-run economy

– Justin Heckert en GQ: «How the World’s Heaviest Man Lost It All«.