Facebook Feminism, Like It or Not
The capitalist evangelism of Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In feminist manifesto.
The capitalist evangelism of Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In feminist manifesto.
Susan Faludi The Baffler Oct 2013 35min Permalink
On the life and death of Elliott Smith.
Liam Gowing Spin Dec 2004 25min Permalink
A family’s journey from Armenia to Syria and back again.
Alia Malek Guernica Oct 2013 20min Permalink
How citizen journalists are covering the war.
Matthew Shaer The New Republic Oct 2013 15min Permalink
A jeweler from Queens tries to crack the code.
Oliver Burkeman The Guardian Oct 2013 15min Permalink
A visit to Star Axis, a desert art installation that connects you to the cosmos.
Ross Andersen Aeon Oct 2013 30min Permalink
Notes from an anonymous Apple Store employee.
J.K. Appleseed McSweeney's Sep–Oct 2013 20min Permalink
Jamie Leigh Jones’s story of gang-rape in Iraq changed the law to help victims, even though she might not have been one herself.
Stephanie Mencimer Washington Monthly Oct 2013 2h30min Permalink
Tyson on his childhood in Brooklyn and the man who changed his life. An excerpt from his upcoming memoir, Undisputed Truth.
Mike Tyson New York Oct 2013 20min Permalink
The homeless population of New York City is higher than it’s been in decades. Nobody seems to notice.
Ian Frazier New Yorker Oct 2013 40min Permalink
On the personal genetic sequencing company 23andMe and why their long time term strategy is collecting spit, not cash.
Elizabeth Murphy Fast Company Oct 2013 30min Permalink
Last year, a group of young Romanians stole millions of euros worth of art from the Kunsthal museum in Rotterdam. They had previously only robbed homes and thought the artwork would be easy to sell. It was not. So they secreted it back home, where, in an effort to save her son, the leader’s mother burned it.
Lex Boon NRC Handelsblad Oct 2013 Permalink
When an antsy tech entrepreneur takes over a struggling newspaper.
Bryan Smith Chicago Magazine Oct 2013 30min Permalink
How sectarian violence has made life in northern Nigeria “incomprehensibly frightful.”
James Verini National Geographic Nov 2013 20min Permalink
The authors spend time in Concord, Mass., with people who impersonate Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Louisa May Alcott and Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Eric Pomerance, Laurie Gwen Shapiro Los Angeles Review of Books Oct 2013 35min Permalink
A semester with first-year medical students as they dissect a human body.
After two cycling-related deaths, the social fitness network becomes a target.
David Darlington Bicycling Magazine Oct 2013 35min Permalink
Gay Talese, who wrote for Esquire in the 1960s and currently contributes to The New Yorker, is the author of several books. His latest is A Writer's Life.
"I want to know how people did what they did. And I want to know how that compares with how I did what I did. That's my whole life. It's not really a life. It's a life of inquiry. It's a life of getting off your ass, knocking on a door, walking a few steps or a great distance to pursue a story. That's all it is: a life of boundless curiosity in which you indulge yourself and never miss an opportunity to talk to someone at length."
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The Giant Pacific Octopus is, in the words of a Seattle conservationist, a “glamour animal.” It is also tasty. Therein lies the conflict.
Marnie Hanel New York Times Magazine Oct 2013 10min Permalink
An analysis of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men and Cotton Tenants, the original manuscript.
Leslie Jamison Oxford American Oct 2013 30min Permalink
Investigating San Francisco’s OneTaste, which promises personal and professional success through the practice of orgasmic meditation.
Nitasha Tiku Gawker Oct 2013 35min Permalink
An animal's corpse disrupts a humdrum workday in this early story by Eleanor Catton, the winner of this year's Man Booker Prize.
Eleanor Catton Sunday Star Times Nov 2007 Permalink
On the science of being fooled.
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself--and you are the easiest person to fool.
Richard Feynman Caltech May 1974 Permalink
Investigating the spike in Afghan-on-American military murders.
Matthieu Aikins Mother Jones Oct 2013 25min Permalink
A Hells Angel informant’s path from destruction to redemption and back, and a family’s trouble with witness protection.
Vince Grzegorek Cleveland Scene Oct 2013 20min Permalink