2021 Favorites
Our most read and favorite Experience stories of the year.
Culture
Online, Black gardeners are celebrating the act of working their own land
These Instagram feeds are about joy — and an oft-forgotten legacy.
By A. Rochaun Meadows-Fernandez
The key to a kinder, gentler internet? Capybaras.
By Eoin O’Carroll
The internet’s most useless website is a well of deep wisdom
By Eoin O'Carroll
Cities+Nature
Did a legendary trout really ride the rails from California to Missouri?
Scientists use DNA to solve genetic puzzles in waters around the world. But in Crane Creek, the mystery got deeper.
By Matt Crossman
What do you want to dream about? Soon, you may be able to choose.
By Hannah Thomasy
The pandemic saved the fast food industry
By Kara Baskin
Cities+Nature
Energy justice is the next civil rights issue
Shalanda Baker thinks clean energy can help heal America's legacy of racism. That's why she's joined the Biden Administration.
By Erick Trickey
Rooting out a little-known danger of urban gardening
By Hannah Thomasy
We’re all moving in together
By Jenni Gritters
A quantum-computing app led me on an adventure in my own town
By Glenn McDonald
