Essays
Essays on science, industry, and the quieter things that hold the world together — with the occasional dachshund.
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A Minute Standing
On a full beach in August, nobody is looking at the water. They are looking at each other, at their books, at the cooler, at the children digging.…
Em português: Um Minuto com Pé
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What Saudade Keeps
Every Portuguese child learns what saudade means long before learning to spell it. It means missing. Missing a person, a place, a time that won't…
Em português: O Que a Saudade Guarda
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The Pile
There was a man, and the man had a dream. He dreamt of an edge that was out of reach.
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The Unnamed Hands
This essay starts in a museum and ends in an operating room. It's about what art conservators and transplant teams have in common: the work of caring…
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One Thread of the Same Tuesday
The people at home aren't waiting. They're living. The dog gets walked, the plumber finally shows up, and the day gets handed over like a baton. For…
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A Place To Land
On birds that land on ships in the middle of the Atlantic, the minute of a hand on a shoulder, and the people who go on being a place to land from an…
Em português: Um Sítio Onde Pousar
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Unfinished
David shows us what was completed. The Prisoners show us something rarer: where the hand stopped, and how far it had come.
Em português: Os Inacabados
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Where the Second Chance Actually Lives
A transplant takes hours. The life around it needs a place to stay..
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The Ones Still Looking
Sometimes the gift is not finding the end of the road, but discovering what makes the journey quiet.
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The Quiet Competence of Things That Actually Work
On the unfashionable virtue of systems that simply do what they claim to do.
