Man on Fire
The story of one Tibetan’s protest.
The story of one Tibetan’s protest.
Jeffrey Bartholet National Geographic Nov 2012 20min Permalink
A father’s life, one year after the death of his three daughters in a fire.
Dan P. Lee New York Dec 2012 30min Permalink
On drinking alcohol while pregnant.
Alyssa Giacobbe Boston Magazine Dec 2012 15min Permalink
Tracking cyberextortionists and their roving swarms of bots.
Evan Ratliff New Yorker Oct 2005 15min Permalink
On starting a rural retreat for recovering addicts.
Tobias Jones Aeon Nov 2012 15min Permalink
A “crude table-tennis arcade game” called Pong and the birth of the video game industry.
Chris Stokel-Walker Buzzfeed Nov 2012 20min Permalink
Los Angeles’ Wolvesmouth and the unlicensed dining industry.
Dana Goodyear New Yorker Dec 2012 25min Permalink
How Human Potential Movement workshops permeated our lives and our businesses.
Suzanne Snider The Believer May 2003 25min Permalink
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The editors take on The Atlantic, Harper's, and The Paris Review. Lawrence Jackson goes up against the Slickheads. Julia Grønnevet reports from the Anders Behring Breivik trial in Oslo. Nikil Saval surveys China's long Eighties.
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A profile of Huell Howser, the happiest man on TV.
Tamar Brott Los Angeles Nov 2003 25min Permalink
A community says its children are being targeted by a group of pedophiles. But did widespread sexual abuse actually take place?
Menachem Kaiser Tablet Nov 2012 20min Permalink
A consideration of Chris Ware.
Gabriel Winslow-Yost New York Review of Books Dec 2012 20min Permalink
An inquiry into the assassination of Pakistan’s former Prime Minister.
Owen Bennett-Jones London Review of Books Dec 2012 25min Permalink
Richard Simmons at 64, sweatin’ to the oldies (and country and disco) thrice weekly.
David Davis SB Nation Nov 2012 15min Permalink
Mike Sager, writer-at-large for Esquire and founder of The Sager Group.
"I was instilled with this thing by my parents who loved me — they fucked me up plenty but they loved the shit out of me — where I can go with people who are different and I don't feel bad about myself. I've had 13-year-old pit-bull fighting kids shame me horribly...throw pebbles at my head, and it doesn't bother me. Because when I'm a reporter, I'm not me. I'm just there to get the job done and learn stuff. I don't take it personally. Plus, I know I'm going to get the last word."
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Nov 2012 Permalink
A species of jellyfish that can transform itself back to a polyp at any time appears to debunk the most fundamental law of the natural world — you are born, and then you die.
Nathaniel Rich New York Times Magazine Nov 2012 25min Permalink
The many reasons Lost shouldn’t have happened.
Alan Sepinwall Grantland Nov 2012 20min Permalink
Our entire way of life depends upon the “cold chain,” the network of artificially refrigerated spaces that have reshaped the modern world.
Nicola Twilley Cabinet Nov 2012 10min Permalink
A master troll on trial in New Jersey.
Adrian Chen Gawker Nov 2012 25min Permalink
“Suddenly, he had to ask for help with buttons, zippers and shoelaces. And he loathes asking for help.”
James Dao New York Times Nov 2012 10min Permalink
In 1968, the author revisits remote British Columbia, which he traveled two years earlier.
Edward Hoagland The American Scholar May 2006 30min Permalink
A profile of Henry Hook, crossword puzzle master.
Burkhard Bilger New Yorker Mar 2002 25min Permalink
The Ivory-Billed Woodpecker was extinct. Then it wasn’t. The story of an uncertain resurrection.
Wells Tower Outside Mar 2006 20min Permalink
In Colorado and beyond, a negotiated surrender in the war on drugs.
Benjamin Wallace-Wells New York Nov 2012 30min Permalink
He came home from Vietnam, wrote the novel that became Full Metal Jacket, was nominated for an Oscar and riding high. Then he got thrown in jail for stockpiling stolen library books, started drinking, cut off his friends and fled to a remote Greek island. He never made it back.
Grover Lewis LA Weekly Jun 1993 40min Permalink