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The challenges of establishing a legal marijuana economy in Washington State.
The challenges of establishing a legal marijuana economy in Washington State.
Patrick Radden Keefe New Yorker Nov 2013 40min Permalink
After circulating Lolita in secret amongst a small circle of New Yorker editors and publishers, Vladamir Nabokov finally placed it at Olympia Press. Three weeks before publication, a slumping and broke Dorothy Parker appeared in The New Yorker with a story entitled “Lolita” about a teenage bride, her jealous mother, and a much older man.
Galya Diment New York Nov 2013 10min Permalink
How much time does Manny Pacquiao have left?
Brin-Jonathan Butler SB Nation Nov 2013 25min Permalink
Investigating an astrophysicist’s sudden death at an isolated resesarch base in Antarctica.
William Cockrell Men's Journal Dec 2009 Permalink
Due to global warming, this island nation may cease to exist in 20 years.
Jeffrey Goldberg Businessweek Nov 2013 30min Permalink
On using data to hire and fire.
Don Peck The Atlantic Nov 2013 35min Permalink
Manson at 79: in poor health and walking with a cane, obsessed with Vincent Bugliosi, willing to talk at length with a reporter for the first time in years, and visited every weekend by a 25-year-old woman he calls Star.
Erik Hedegaard Rolling Stone Nov 2013 40min Permalink
After 85 years, antibiotics are growing impotent. So what will medicine, agriculture and everyday life look like if we lose these drugs entirely?
Maryn McKenna Medium Nov 2013 10min Permalink
A technical explanation of the real program to sabotage Iran’s nuclear facilities.
Ralph Langner Foreign Policy Nov 2013 35min Permalink
Rachel Aviv is a staff writer at The New Yorker.
"If I'm writing about the criminal justice system, I wish I were a lawyer. If I'm writing about psychiatry, I wish I were a psychiatrist. I have often filled out half my application to get a Ph.D in clinical psychology. That is one area where I am constantly on the verge of jumping the fence. But even when I wrote about religion, I thought I wanted to be a priest."
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How a comedy writer making $300,000 a year ended up homeless.
David Raether Priceonomics Nov 2013 20min Permalink
How our memories become contaminated by inaccuracies.
Erika Hayasaki The Atlantic Nov 2013 10min Permalink
On the mountain lions of Los Angeles.
Mike Kessler Los Angeles Nov 2013 25min Permalink
The inside story of Bob Dylan’s Blood On The Tracks.
Nick Hasted Uncut Jan 2005 25min Permalink
A tour of our greatest conspiracy theories.
Benjamin Wallace-Wells New York Nov 2013 Permalink
The long road to Google’s self-driving car.
Burkhard Bilger New Yorker Nov 2013 45min Permalink
On the assassination of a half-Palestinian, half-Jewish cultural revolutionary.
Adam Shatz London Review of Books Nov 2013 40min Permalink
INTERVIEWER: I imagine that people try to set you up as some sort of guru, whether political or metaphysical.
LESSING: I think people are always looking for gurus. It’s the easiest thing in the world to become a guru. It’s quite terrifying.
Thomas Frick The Paris Review Apr 1988 30min Permalink
A writer embarks on a seven-year trek from Africa to Tierra Del Fuego.
Paul Salopek National Geographic Dec 2013 20min Permalink
A recent history of ‘bupe’ Suboxone film, which is described as a miracle cure for opiate addiction but flows freely from for-profit clinics to dealers and inmates, sometimes melted into the pages of smuggled Bibles.
Deborah Sontag New York Times Nov 2013 30min Permalink
In 1985, a lost 22-year-old wrote a letter to a Manson girl-turned-model prisoner, asking for advice on conquering his demons. Then they fell in love.
Shawn Hubler Orange Coast Feb 2010 15min Permalink
“And the Holocaust trumps art every time.”
David Samuels, Art Spiegelman Tablet Nov 2013 25min Permalink
The $200 billion industry behind the Snuggie.
Jon Nathanson Priceonomics Nov 2013 20min Permalink
The gospel according to nine-year-olds; a missionary group that won the right to evangelize in schools and how children process their message.
Rachel Aviv Harper's Aug 2009 30min Permalink
A pair of undercover journalists, a boatload of refugees, 200 miles of ocean and a journey that has claimed more than a thousand lives.
Luke Mogelson New York Times Magazine Nov 2013 40min Permalink