Recent long-reads: Surviving tree falls, Rick Steves, the raisin mob, 40 year-old rookies
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Courtesy New York Times
- One of the most powerful survival stories I’ve ever read (NY Times)
- Rick Steves wants to set you free (NY Times)
- The raisin issue: how the industry is more like a mob than dried fruit (NY Times)
- What is Hell? It depends on who you ask (Walrus—fun fact: Mormons don’t believe in hell)
- The severing of politics from video games (New Yorker)
- Is it ever too late to pursue a life-long dream? (Long Reads)
- How Microsoft became the most valuable company in the world again (Bloomberg)
- How the Internet travels across oceans (NY Times)