This week's Top 5:

* Subsea storytelling (Wired)
* Preservation paradox @hackernoon
* Serpentine symbiosis (Oxford American)
* Investigating infinity @QuantaMagazine
* Marijuana mystery @sfgate

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This week's Top 5:

* Gambling's grip (Harper's Magazine)
* Of plumes and poachers (The Bitter Southerner)
* Bemoaning Americans in Rome (The Dial)
* Magical history tour (Texas Monthly)
* Fake poultry flinger (Slate)

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Here's what we have for you in this week's Top 5:

• Midair mayhem (The New Statesman)
• Know when to fold 'em (Slate)
• For art's sake (The Economist)
• Breech of trust (The Guardian)
• May it trees the court (Harper's Magazine)

Learn why our editors have recommended these pieces and find out which story our audience loved most.

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In this week's Top 5:
* Rise of the machines (New York Review of Architecture)
* Help me, Seymour! (Garden & Gun)
* Crossing the party line (Equator)
* A powerful instrument (https://frankchimero.com)
* Turn, turn, turn (Emergence Magazine)

Hear from our editors on each story, and find out this week's audience favorite!

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Here's what we've got for you in our Weekly Top 5:

* Media mistrust (Harper's Magazine)
* Hunting identity (The Bitter Southerner)
* Meat and pota-woes (Serious Eats)
* Celebrating cinephilia @lrb
* Knightley news (The Times)

Learn why our editors have recommended these pieces and find out which story our audience loved most.

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Another week passes by. It’s 28ºC here, and I’m still in shorts. Here’s this week’s tip-top five at our frontier outpost in the Portuguese mountains. NewMusic #MusicDiscovery #WeeklyTop5 #dub #footwork #shoegaze and #experimental

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Here's what we've got for you in our Weekly Top 5:

* Subsidizing carnage (The Local)
* “Best” American poetry (Defector)
* Frail fibers (The Guardian)
* A crabby savior (The American Scholar)
* Feline fealty (The Sun Magazine)

Learn why our editors have recommended these pieces and find out which story our audience loved most.

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Here's what we've got for you in our Weekly Top 5:

* The legend of the levee boss (The American Scholar)
* Identity in the age of AI (Harper's Magazine)
* The rules of Rave Club (The Fence Magazine)
* Studying philosophy in prison (Aeon)
* French fry why (Toronto Life)

Learn why our editors have recommended these pieces and find out which story our audience loved most.

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