What Will I Hear When My Ears Stop Working?
On going deaf as a result of Ménière’s Disease.
On going deaf as a result of Ménière’s Disease.
Ysabelle Cheung Narratively Sep 2015 10min Permalink
Surviving the earthquake in Nepal – on Mount Everest.
Svati Kirsten Narula Quartz Sep 2015 25min Permalink
Attending a meeting of the Continental Drift Club in Berlin.
Patti Smith The Guardian Sep 2015 15min Permalink
The technological future of the struggling porn industry.
Charlie Warzel Buzzfeed Sep 2015 25min Permalink
Australian Rocky Perone, age 21, made his minor league baseball debut with a stolen base in 1974. Except he wasn’t Australian, wasn’t named Rocky Perone and most definitely wasn’t 21.
Chris Ballard Sports Illustrated Sep 2015 25min Permalink
Who killed four people in the French Alps?
Sean Flynn GQ Sep 2015 35min Permalink
Practicing photography in Switzerland.
Teju Cole New York Times Magazine Sep 2015 20min Permalink
The story of how Michael Larson cracked the code of Press Your Luck, winning $104,950 in cash, a sailboat ($1,015), and two all-inclusive trips.
Zachary Crockett Priceonomics Sep 2015 10min Permalink
The meanings of coiffure, from follicle to shaft.
Siri Hustvedt The New Republic Sep 2015 15min Permalink
For online advertisers, probably most of it. An investigation.
Ben Elgin, Michael Riley, Joshua Brustein Businessweek Sep 2015 15min Permalink
Struggling with depression and thoughts of suicide, Army officer Lawrence Franks went AWOL. Five years later, he reappeared as Christopher Flaherty, a member of the French Foreign Legion who served three tours in Africa. Then he was court-martialed.
Janet Reitman Rolling Stone Sep 2015 35min Permalink
A talk on personal data and the people who collect it:
"Let me ask a trick question. What was the most damaging data breach in the last 12 months? The trick answer is: it's likely something we don't even know about."
Maciej Ceglowski Idle Words Sep 2015 Permalink
How the “genial Bavarian” version of Adolf Hitler became a global media celebrity, “a plain-living gentleman with a soft spot for dogs and children.”
Despina Stratigakos Places Journal Sep 2015 35min Permalink
On mathematical shapes and family ruptures.
Tania Moore Pithead Chapel Sep 2015 15min Permalink
The story of a sudden death amid a high school recruiting scandal in Texas.
David Gardner Sports Illustrated Sep 2015 25min Permalink
An Alabama woman took the equivalent of one Valium during her pregnancy. A few weeks after she gave birth, she became one of more than 1,800 new and expecting mothers arrested under the state’s chemical endangerment law.
Nina Martin ProPublica Sep 2015 40min Permalink
Ira Glass is the host and executive producer of This American Life.
“You can only have so many questions about feelings, I think. At some point people are just like alright, enough with the feelings.”
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Hemingway was in love with two women at once. He found the experience wrenching.
A.E. Hotchner Smithsonian Magazine Sep 2015 20min Permalink
A profile of Yankee legend Yogi Berra, who died Tuesday.
Roy Blount Jr. Sports Illustrated Apr 1984 30min Permalink
Julia, a 30-year-old, has spent her life trying not to take more than what she needs from the world. It’s made life very difficult.
Larissa MacFarquhar The Guardian Sep 2015 25min Permalink
Finding a saint in a leprosy settlement in Hawaii.
David Zax Atlas Obscura Sep 2015 35min Permalink
He had the mind of a scholar, but he always insisted he didn’t want to be one.
Jay Parini Chronicle of Higher Education Sep 2015 15min Permalink
The battle between 1975’s biggest shows.
Michael Riedel Vanity Fair Sep 2015 20min Permalink
Life at a roadside zoo with ligers, orangutans, and an elephant in Florida.
Ian S. Port Rolling Stone Sep 2015 25min Permalink
Ken Dornstein’s older brother died when a bomb exploded on Pan Am Flight 103. For the past three decades, he’s been obsessed with identifying who’s really responsible.
Patrick Radden Keefe New Yorker Sep 2015 40min Permalink