In our Weekly Top 5: • Symbiosis steeped in irony @washingtonpost.com • The hidden lives of rocks @atmosmag.bsky.social • Journalism’s facts machine @yalereview.bsky.social • What’s up, sun? @noemamag.com • Puzzling through problems @theamscho.bsky.social longreads.com/2025/07/25/l...
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1. “Abandoned by Trump, a Farmer and a Migrant Search for a Better Future” @johnwoodrowcox.bsky.social, Sarah Blaskey, Matt McClain "To survive the administration’s cuts and cruelty, a Trump voter and an immigrant needed each other." www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
2. "Why One Geologist Thinks We Should All Pay More Attention to Rocks" Daphne Chouliaraki Milner, Marcia Bjornerud "Bjornerud’s insights make me think about how we frame time, and how we teach it." atmos.earth/why-one-geol...
3. "When Fact-Checking Meant Something" (Susan Choi) "But Choi’s piece is a Trojan horse, a book review with a personal essay hidden within . . . " yalereview.org/article/susa...
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4. "The Unseen Fury of Solar Storms" @henrywismayer.bsky.social "He transforms solar physics into urgent, earthbound stakes." www.noemamag.com/the-unseen-f...
5. "Puzzled" (Susannah Pratt) "This essay is a lovely reminder that when it comes to anything worth doing, it’s often more about the process than the result." theamericanscholar.org/puzzled/?src...
Congratulations to Charlie McCann! She won this week's audience award for "The Two Lives of William Woods" at 1843 Magazine www.economist.com/interactive/...
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