Some of My Best Friends Are Germs
Medicine used to be obsessed with eradicating the tiny bugs that live within us. Now we’re beginning to understand all the ways they keep us healthy.
Medicine used to be obsessed with eradicating the tiny bugs that live within us. Now we’re beginning to understand all the ways they keep us healthy.
Michael Pollan New York Times Magazine May 2013 20min Permalink
The meaning of the Eurovision Song Contest.
Anthony Lane New Yorker Jun 2010 30min Permalink
In the not-so-distant future, all of our objects will talk to each other. They’ll make our coffee, find our keys, save our lives. The roadmap to a fully networked existence.
Bill Wasik Wired May 2013 Permalink
Inside the Oscar Pistorius murder case.
Mark Seal Vanity Fair May 2013 30min Permalink
Rethinking mobile homes as senior housing.
Lisa Margonelli Pacific Standard Apr 2013 20min Permalink
The story of Kokie’s, and its gentrifying Williamsburg neighborhood.
Vice Staff Vice May 2008 15min Permalink
Experimental neuroscience, conjoined minds, and everlasting consciousness — a collection of picks on the human brain.
“The mythical image of Malick that has been built up over the last 30-odd years is, in essence, a creation of the same media corps with whom the filmmaker himself has continually chosen not to engage.”
The possibilities and pitfalls of massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Nathan Heller New Yorker May 2013 35min Permalink
A daughter’s attempt to solve the riddle of her mom.
Marjorie Williams Washington Post Nov 2005 20min Permalink
During New York’s ’80s and ’90s crack epedemic, a flashy detective who “imagined himself a crusader who created his own rules” and his star witness, a crack addicted prostitute who seemed to constantly be at the scene of homicides, sent dozens of men to prison for life. Now, they are under investigation.
Frances Robles, N.R. Kleinfield New York Times May 2013 10min Permalink
A son’s memory of the father he lost at 13, excerpted from The Magical Stranger.
Stephen Rodrick Men's Journal May 2013 30min Permalink
In Cyprus with those who lost big by simply depositing their savings with Laiki.
James Meek London Review of Books May 2013 25min Permalink
How Georgia halted its drug epidemic, but not its addicts–and what the U.S. might learn from their efforts.
Graeme Wood The New Republic May 2013 15min Permalink
Why the integration of a South African university didn’t last.
Eve Fairbanks Moment Jun 2013 25min Permalink
The story behind the spectacle.
Jessica Testa Buzzfeed May 2013 20min Permalink
An investigation into shootings by U.S. Border Agents that have killed six Mexicans on Mexican soil over the past five years.
John Carlos Frey Washington Monthly May 2013 25min Permalink
He was a hedge-funder with a coke problem. She liked to drink and was thrice-divorced before they got married. When the police arrived, she was clutching his dead body in the shallow end of their pool. She would soon be accused of murder—not by the cops, but her Internet psychic.
Stephen Rodrick New York Feb 2008 30min Permalink
How pitching phenom Steve Carlton became a yoga-loving conspiracy theorist who calls a concrete bunker his home.
Pat Jordan Philadelphia Magazine Apr 1994 30min Permalink
Two sisters help detectives solve a decades-old cold case by identifying their father as their mother’s killer.
Michael E. Miller The Miami New Times May 2013 20min Permalink
How a network of evangelical Christian crisis pregnancy centers turned the complex reality behind black abortion rates into a single, fictional story.
Akiba Solomon Color Lines May 2013 20min Permalink
Vanessa Grigoriadis is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and New York.
On the art of the celebrity interview: "People are smart. Particularly these people. They're sitting there thinking, 'When is she going to drop that question?' They know what you're doing. So the way I think about it is: let's have an actual, genuine, human, interesting conversation. ... [Journalists] have all sorts of schemes of what they think works for them. My scheme is no scheme."
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An early profile of Justin Beiber.
Vanessa Grigoriadis Rolling Stone Mar 2011 20min Permalink
An endangered-species murder mystery in Hawaii.
Jon Mooallem New York Times Magazine May 2013 20min Permalink
On a cruise with Syvlia Browne, the controversial psychic famous for telling distraught parents where their missing children are.
Jon Ronson The Guardian Oct 2007 20min Permalink