How a Math Genius Hacked OkCupid to Find True Love
After nine months of striking out, Chris McKinlay decided to change his online dating strategy. It worked.
After nine months of striking out, Chris McKinlay decided to change his online dating strategy. It worked.
Kevin Poulsen Wired Jan 2014 Permalink
On the Netflix hit drama and its show runner, Beau Willimon.
Adam Sternbergh New York Times Magazine Jan 2014 20min Permalink
Orlando’s suburbs become an accidental testing ground.
Michael Kruse Tampa Bay Times Jan 2014 10min Permalink
How a once-lauded psychiatrist became a prolific prescriber of painkillers in one of Virginia’s poorest and most isolated counties.
Ariel Sabar Washingtonian Jan 2014 20min Permalink
On hit-and-run deaths, and in particular, that of Tiara Nichelle Jackson on the Beltway.
Neely Tucker Washington Post Jan 2014 15min Permalink
An extended conversation on the problem of whether to “drop out or take over” conducted on Alan Watts’ houseboat, the S.S. Vallejo.
Timothy Leary, Gary Snyder, Alan Watts, Allen Ginsberg San Francisco Oracle Feb 1967 20min Permalink
The haunted aftermath of disaster in Japan.
Richard Lloyd Parry London Review of Books Jan 2014 30min Permalink
On the foreign workers of Dubai, who now make up 90 percent of the city’s population.
Cynthia Gorney National Geographic Jan 2014 20min Permalink
A love story.
Mischa Berlinski Harper's Nov 2007 35min Permalink
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"I don't believe in answers. That's what compels me to write all of these stories. None of them ends nicely, none of them ends neatly."
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On then-agent, now-congressman Michael Grimm and what happens when an F.B.I. informant turns out to be a con man.
Evan Ratliff New Yorker May 2011 30min Permalink
An adventure on the Beringia, a dog sled race stretching 685 miles over Russia’s frozen tundra.
Julia Phillips The Morning News Nov 2012 25min Permalink
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How Janet Jackson’s wardrobe malfunction, all nine-sixteenths of a second of it, changed TV, the internet, and American culture.
Marin Cogan ESPN the Magazine Jan 2014 15min Permalink
An oral history project involving former IRA members becomes a prolonged court battle over a four-decade-old murder.
Beth McMurtrie The Chronicle of Higher Education Jan 2014 30min Permalink
How a supposedly safe party drug turned lethal.
Michael Blanding Boston Globe Jan 2014 15min Permalink
From his testimonoy before the House Unamerican Activities Committee to his final fight, a collection of picks on the folk singer, who died Monday.</p>
How a substandard abortion provider stays in business.
Eyal Press New Yorker Feb 2014 40min Permalink
Lunch with recycling tycoon Chen Guangbiao, the self-described “Most Influential Person of China,” to discuss his interest in buying The New York Times.
Jessica Pressler New York Jan 2014 10min Permalink
A small Texas town suddenly finds it’s the home of a possible cult.
Sonia Smith Texas Monthly Jan 2014 35min Permalink
With up to four million World War II soldiers considered missing in action on the Eastern front, a group of Russian volunteers vows to unearth, identify and properly bury their remains.
“I think you are asking me, in the most tactful way possible, about my own aggression and malice. What can I do but plead guilty? I don’t know whether journalists are more aggressive and malicious than people in other professions. We are certainly not a ‘helping profession.’ If we help anyone, it is ourselves, to what our subjects don’t realize they are letting us take. I am hardly the first writer to have noticed the not-niceness of journalists. Tocqueville wrote about the despicableness of American journalists in Democracy in America. In Henry James’s satiric novel The Reverberator, a wonderful rascally journalist named George M. Flack appears. I am only one of many contributors to this critique. I am also not the only journalist contributor. Tom Wolfe and Joan Didion, for instance, have written on the subject. Of course, being aware of your rascality doesn’t excuse it.”
Janet Malcolm, Katie Roiphe The Paris Review Apr 2011 35min Permalink
How a 40-year-old IT consultant became nod, one of Silk Road’s highest volume heroin dealers, who turned informant and then fugitive.
Patrick Howell O'Neill The Daily Dot Jan 2014 20min Permalink
How fight coach Greg Jackson, once dubbed “the Philosopher King of MMA,” does his job.
Tim Marchman Deadspin Jan 2014 45min Permalink
Tom Waits interviewed at 38.
Francis Thrumm, Tom Waits Interview Oct 1988 35min Permalink