Joshua Hunt

Mar 6, 2024 | ragazzo.substack.com | Joshua Hunt |Richard Fisher |Ingrid Wickelgren |Abigail Tulenko

Welcome to LINKS — my attempt to provide Rhapsody readers with five interesting stories that tell us something about what it means to be human . LINKS is published every Wednesday. Have a link you want to share? Drop it in the comments.

Jul 26, 2023 | thebeliever.net | Joshua Hunt

In January 2023, while waiting to board a plane in Stockholm, I saw how swiftly grief can take hold of a person. In a quiet corner of Arlanda Airport, it unfolded before me like a scene from a movie: an older woman answered her cell phone, listened for a few moments to the voice on the other end, then burst into tears. Her anguish was so immediate, and so visceral, that it could only have been the worst kind of news—the end of a marriage, a dream, or a life.

May 17, 2023 | scientificamerican.com | Joshua Hunt

In March, when President Biden approved the Willow project, an $8 billion plan for ConocoPhillips to extract 600 million barrels of oil from federal land in Alaska, it brought to mind a long-dormant memory from my childhood—one from March 1989, when I watched the Exxon Valdez oil spill unfold on the nightly news from my home in Southeast Alaska.