Plus, a poaching kingpin on the lam, California's epic supershroom, and why a boom for mezcal is bad for bats.
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 | PHOTOGRAPHS BY MATILDA HAY
| | It has been about a decade since freezing a women’s eggs has moved from experimental and controversial intro the mainstream. And only in the past few years has it become normalized for women who want to extend their reproductive life.
What’s involved? Will insurance cover it? What’s the live birth rate, and does it, too, decline with age?
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| | The decision: At left, Alex, 37, is freezing her eggs until she and her husband have more stability. At right, an egg-retrieval needle. It goes through the vaginal wall and up to the ovaries, where it collects follicular fluid and eggs. At top, Kelly, 33, at home, with the needles and hormones she used for her two egg freezing cycles. Read more. | | | |
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 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER BROWN | | ‘It’s a super-shroom!’ The unexpected deluge of rain in California this winter has set the stage for an epic, increasingly rare mushroom season. The last one, some hunters say, was more than 20 years ago. Even those new to fungi foraging will be able to find mushrooms in their backyards, ready to be seen, admired, and often eaten, Nat Geo reports. (Above, mushrooms in the Amanita genus.)
Related: Is this how The Last of Us starts? Because that fungus is real.
Also: Why scientists are creating psychedelics with better trips
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 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY ESTHER HORVATH | | Are we contaminated? From massive chemical spills—like the recent train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio—to chemicals in everyday products, our bodies are constantly exposed to harmful compounds. The question is, how much are we absorbing? Few know better than the researchers who have been testing German blood and urine for chemicals since 1985 (a few of their some 400,000 samples stored in a bunker, above).
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 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY LISA CONRAD, FOURANDAHALFFEET.ART | | From sea to shining sea: Once completed, the Great American Rail-Trail will run 3,700 miles and connect Washington, D.C. to Washington state. This epic project is converting abandoned railways crisscrossing the Midwest into trails—and is already re-energizing America’s heartland. (Above, a stretch of Nebraska’s 219-mile Cowboy Recreation and Nature Trail, which connects to the new cross-country path.)
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Today’s soundtrack: Me fui de vacaciones, Bad Bunny (The lyrics here in English).
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