Many exciting updates today as CROSSINGS rolls down the highway toward publication! First: an excerpt in The Atlantic on the catastrophic toll that cars take on reptiles & amphibians, among earth's most endangered—and least conspicuous—roadkill victims. theatlantic.com/science/archiv…

Tough place to be in for hospital directors when they're being yelled at by colleagues both for moving too quickly on removing mask mandates and for not removing them fast enough. theatlantic.com/health/archive… by Katherine J. Wu, Ph.D.

"Ordinarily, a solid idea for marketing something new would be to position it as the opposite of dystopian." Kaitlyn Tiffany living the orb life: theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

wrote about streaming which feels like its getting worse theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

I wrote about Surfline, a website that now runs my life! theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

This week The Atlantic has a great package out offering up a guide to privacy. I wrote the opening essay trying to grapple with what our digital privacy even means at this point in 2023 and why it's so hard to find the right metaphor theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

This is just lovely, by Ian Bogost theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

This is incredible. By Jenisha Watts: theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

🚨  An exclusive excerpt of McKay Coppins astonishing biography of Mitt Romney: theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

Read this. Put it on your to-do list. Amanda Mull is so good: theatlantic.com/health/archive…

"If the discovery holds up, and the lithium is easy to extract and refine—both big ifs—this ancient geological event could end up shaping contemporary geopolitics, and maybe even the future of green energy." By Ross Andersen: theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

JWST has been churning out one dazzling image after another, illuminating countless new wonders for us, but this one really stopped me in my tracks: theatlantic.com/science/archiv…

I asked a professional Rome Man about how much we should be thinking about Rome: theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

Thousands of cats have died in a mysterious outbreak on Cyprus. The cure might be...COVID drugs? Yes, really. theatlantic.com/science/archiv…

"Migraines were just this thing that I’ve lived with for more than a decade, and had accepted as an unfortunate part of my existence. Just my Excedrin and me, together forever, barreling through the wasted days." Marina Koren on life with migraines: theatlantic.com/health/archive…

I absolutely love how Matteo Wong scopes this opening paragraph in his great new piece on the end of Scantron tests. theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

NEW: This summer, we reported on the contents of a controversial database used to train generative AI products from Meta, Bloomberg, and others. Many people requested an ability to search it. Today, Alex Reisner delivers. theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

I start at The Atlantic next week covering climate change. I'd love to know what kind of stories you'd like to read, and what questions you'd like to see answered.

When I started college in the mid 2000s, relatives begged me to change majors to something “safe.”I’m glad I stuck with English. I wrote about AI and higher ed for The Atlantic theatlantic.com/technology/arc…