SF Plane Crash: Responders Turned Chaos Into Hope
With the first on the scene of the Asiana Airlines Flight 214 disaster.
With the first on the scene of the Asiana Airlines Flight 214 disaster.
Kevin Fagan, Vivian Ho San Francisco Chronicle Jul 2013 Permalink
A profile of Amar Bose, founder of the Bose Corporation.
Tom Clynes Popular Science Dec 2004 15min Permalink
The durable ineffectiveness of John Boehner.
Jennifer Senior New York Jul 2013 20min Permalink
Making the case that all Pixar movies exist on a cohesive timeline in the same universe dominated by a central theme: the battle between animals, humans and machines.
Jon Negroni jonnegroni.com Jul 2013 20min Permalink
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The hunt for a secretive network of British men obsessed with accumulating and cataloguing the eggs of rare birds.
Julian Rubinstein New Yorker Jul 2013 30min Permalink
The crimes of former NFL star Rae Carruth.
Previously: “The Boy They Couldn’t Kill” (Thomas Lake • Sports Illustrated)
Peter Richmond GQ May 2001 20min Permalink
The “naked technological realities” of America’s heartland and how they power a “cosy coastal world of pretend farmers’ markets and happy cows.”
Venkatesh Rao Aeon Jul 2013 15min Permalink
On the film The Act of Killing, in which the actual perpetrators of a 1966-1966 Indonesian genocide recreate their own actions for the camera, and what it can tell us about our memories of the Vietnam War.
Errol Morris Slate Jul 2013 25min Permalink
How a con man named James McCormick sold $38 million worth of phony bomb-detection devices to Iraqi authorities.
Adam Higginbotham Businessweek Jul 2013 20min Permalink
In early 2012, the bones of a woman and young boy were found near the Arizona-Mexico border. The author investigates who they were and how they died.
Terry Greene Sterling Newsweek Jul 2013 30min Permalink
When Manny Ramirez played half a season for the E-DA Rhinos.
Sam Graham-Felsen Buzzfeed Jul 2013 25min Permalink
Attending the Afterlife Awareness Conference.
Aimee Levitt The Riverfront Times Jul 2013 20min Permalink
Encounters with Albert DeSalvo, the self-confessed Boston Strangler.
Sebastian Junger Vanity Fair May 2006 35min Permalink
The story of a risky management style gone bust.
Mina Kimes Businessweek Jul 2013 15min Permalink
The shadowy cartel of doctors that control U.S. healthcare.
Haley Sweetland Edwards Washington Monthly Jul 2013 2h Permalink
Is being a war correspondent worth the risk?
Ed Caesar British GQ Jul 2013 20min Permalink
On the origins of The Village People.
Nicole Pasulka The Believer Aug 2013 20min Permalink
On the lonely life of a for-profit pageant queen.
Lane DeGregory Tampa Bay Times Jul 2013 10min Permalink
On having breasts and playing sports.
Amanda Hess ESPN the Magazine Jul 2013 10min Permalink
Brendan I. Koerner is a contributing editor at Wired and the author of The Skies Belong to Us.
"It was this big review in The New York Times and I was terrified that it was going to say something awful about the book or about me as a writer. And my son said to me — he's 5, I should say — "If it's bad, you won't die." That's a good point, you know? So I always think of that when I pick up a new review and take that risk of someone slamming something that I've genuinely poured my heart and soul into. You'll live to fight another day."
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How Gaby Hoffman, who had roles in Field of Dreams, Uncle Buck and Sleepless in Seattle, survived child stardom.
Taffy Brodesser-Akner New York Times Magazine Jul 2013 15min Permalink
On the dangerous state of U.K. banks—“an existential threat to British democracy, a more serious one than terrorism, either external or internal”—and how it can be fixed.
John Lanchester London Review of Books Jul 2013 25min Permalink
Following the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, the Pakistani government set up a commission to establish how U.S. forces could have violated Pakistani sovereignty without repercussions, and how Bin Laden came to reside secretly in Pakistan for so long. This is what they found.
The day-to-day monotony and close calls of Bin Laden’s years on the lam.
How Pakistan helped allow Bin Laden to go undetected for so long.
The story of the night Bin Laden was killed, as told by those in the crosshairs.
Asad Hashim Al Jazeera Jul 2013 30min Permalink
The story of Melissa Barthelemy, a prostitute killed in a string of murders on Long Island in December 2010.
Robert Kolker Slate Jul 2013 15min Permalink
An inside account of the Egyptian leader’s last day in power.
Yasmine Saleh, Paul Taylor Reuters Jul 2013 10min Permalink