Wellness Cures
Can hospitals learn to better treat Deaf patients?
Can hospitals learn to better treat Deaf patients?
Katie Booth Harper's Aug 2018 20min Permalink
A profile of the actress.
Allison P. Davis The Cut Aug 2018 15min Permalink
“It was a clusterfuck of clusterfucks.”
Andy Greenberg Wired Aug 2018 25min Permalink
Jeff Maysh is a freelance writer based in Los Angeles. His latest article is "How an Ex-Cop Rigged McDonald’s Monopoly Game and Stole Millions."
“I’ve always looked for stories with the theme of identity and identity theft. I’m very interested in people leading double lives. All of my stories are the same in a sense. Whether that’s a spy or a fake cheerleader or a bank robber or even a wrestler—someone is pretending to be someone they’re not, leading a double life. I find that really exciting. I’m drawn to characters who put on a disguise.”
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Neurosurgeon Christopher Duntsch left a trail of bodies and paralyzed patients across Texas.
Matt Goodman D Magazine Oct 2016 25min Permalink
A profile of Paul Manafort, “a great normalizer of corruption” who “weakened the capital’s ethical immune system.”
Franklin Foer The Atlantic Jan 2018 25min Permalink
A dispatch from North Carolina.
Nick Martin Splinter Aug 2018 50min Permalink
Hucksters claim that drinking a few drops of hydrogen peroxide diluted in a glass of water will cure almost anything.
Karen Savage Undark Aug 2018 25min Permalink
Barack Obama and a tradition of letter-reading.
Jeanne Marie Laskas The Guardian Aug 2018 15min Permalink
On trying to figure out what’s next.
Lisa Miller New York Aug 2018 30min Permalink
A year-by-year walk through of the decade that birthed a mainstream culture called ‘Alternative’ and the bands that were deified and destroyed by it.
Steven Hyden AV Club Oct 2010 2h15min Permalink
Inside a sleazy FBI sting involving diet clinics, fitness models, money laundering, and a supposed plot to hire a hitman.
Trevor Aaronson theintercept.com Aug 2018 30min Permalink
How an activist investor does business (and ruins lives).
Sheelah Kolhatkar New Yorker Aug 2018 40min Permalink
On the trail in Texas with Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke.
Anne Helen Petersen Buzzfeed Aug 2018 30min Permalink
The Bashar al-Assad regime’s indiscriminate air strikes have terrorized civilians for years. Now a small band of activist-entrepreneurs is building a sensor network that listens for warplanes and warns people when and where the bombs will fall.
Danny Gold Wired Aug 2018 15min Permalink
At 18, Katie Stubblefield lost her face. At 21, she became the youngest person in the U.S. to undergo the still experimental procedure to get a new one.
Joanna Connors National Geographic Aug 2018 40min Permalink
The improbable rise of Dallas Wings star Liz Cambage.
Mirin Fader Bleacher Report Aug 2018 15min Permalink
A profile of a pig.
Jason McBride The Walrus Aug 2018 25min Permalink
Pinned down in deep snow and running out of food, veteran thru-hiker Stephen “Otter” Olshansky scraped his way to a campground latrine, holed up inside, and prayed for help to arrive.
Doug Robinson Outside Aug 2018 25min Permalink
Is the Chinese government behind one of the boldest art-crime waves in history?
Alex W. Palmer GQ Aug 2018 20min Permalink
A European vacation, a quietly crumbling marriage.
Ursula Villarreal-Moura Bennington Review Aug 2018 15min Permalink
World-famous Houston surgeon Bud Frazier spent decades developing a revolutionary device that could save millions of lives.
Mimi Swartz Texas Monthly Aug 2018 25min Permalink
On the ubiquity of forest fires.
William Finnegan New York Review of Books Aug 2018 15min Permalink
Almond growing in California is a $7.6 billion industry that wouldn’t be possible without the 30 billion bees (and hundreds of human beekeepers) who keep the trees pollinated — and whose very existence is in peril.
Jaime Lowe New York Times Magazine Aug 2018 15min Permalink
David Marchese is the interviewer for New York's "In Conversation" series.
"The thing I like about doing long interviews with people is that each one feels like a totally unique experience to me. It’s not like I go into an interview and already know the arc of the story I’m going to tell, and I’m going to just fill that in the best I can. I have ideas of what to talk about and what the conversation might entail, but it does feel like I’m starting at zero and the conversation can go anywhere.”
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