The Ascension of Peter Zumthor
Peter Zumthor, who recently won the Pritzker Prize after a career of few buildings and mostly modest-in-size projects, on the “architecture of actually making things”
Peter Zumthor, who recently won the Pritzker Prize after a career of few buildings and mostly modest-in-size projects, on the “architecture of actually making things”
Michael Kimmelman New York Times Magazine Mar 2011 20min Permalink
The long, happy, surprising life of 77-year old Donald Gary Triplett, the first person ever diagnosed with autism.
Caren Zucker, John Donvan The Atlantic Apr 2011 30min Permalink
A Red Sox fan profiles the Yankee captain.
Seth Mnookin GQ Apr 2011 15min Permalink
A group of scientists started tracking thousands of British children born during one cold March week in 1946. Those children are now 65 and the data generated through careful tracking of their life history has become extremely valuable.
Helen Pearson Nature Mar 2011 15min Permalink
Depending on who you ask, Mohammed Jawad was either 12 or 17 when he was detained. Nobody disputes that he spent seven years at Guantánamo before he was exonerated. The story of a boy who grew up as a detainee.
Michael Paterniti GQ Feb 2011 35min Permalink
Is Dr. Drew’s “Celebrity Rehab” therapy or tabloid voyeurism?
Chris Norris New York Times Magazine Dec 2009 Permalink
On being the lone male student at a women’s college.
Jay Dixit Rolling Stone Mar 2001 15min Permalink
The surreal afterlife of the once-ascendant Dubai, where “the legacy of oil has made everything worthless.”
A. A. Gill Vanity Fair Apr 2011 Permalink
Why did a small-town girl have her family brutally murdered?
Pamela Colloff Texas Monthly Jun 2009 35min Permalink
An entrepreneurial primer from the founder of 37Signals. “So here’s a great way to practice making money: Buy and sell the same thing over and over on Craigslist or eBay. Seriously.”
Jason Fried Inc. Mar 2010 Permalink
A technical, thrilling account of how Pinboard, a tiny bookmarking service, dealt with the fire hose of new users after news leaked that Yahoo would discontinue Pinboard’s massive rival, Delicious.
Maciej Ceglowski Pinboard Blog Mar 2011 Permalink
A first-person account of the author’s time spent volunteering with a group of Burmese activists in Thailand, who turn out to be not Korean but in fact Karen, members of Burma’s persecuted ethnic minority. In the course of her time there, they show her videos of their risky forays across the border, and she shows them MySpace.
Mac McClelland Mother Jones Apr 2011 40min Permalink
“If 4chan sounds trivial, that’s because it is. The site certainly doesn’t make much money…In fact, you could say that 4chan has cornered the market on the trivial on the Internet, which is no small feat (the trivial usually spreads by accident on the Web, according to no logic).”
Vanessa Grigoriadis Vanity Fair Apr 2011 Permalink
The perilous routes through which information—video footage, secret documents, radio broadcasts—flow in and out of North Korea through its porous borders with China.
Robert S. Boynton The Atlantic Apr 2011 15min Permalink
One part rapist, one part con-man; the story of the seemingly unconvictable Hy Doan.
Denise Grollmus Cleveland Scene Sep 2005 15min Permalink
On Baylor’s freshman basketball star Perry Jones and how the new era of one-season careers has changed the landscape of college basketball.
A profile of the highest paid coach in college basketball. A pioneer of one-and-done recruiting, Calipari is also the only coach in NCAA history to have two runs to the Final Four removed from the record books for rules violations.
S.L. Price Sports Illustrated Mar 2011 30min Permalink
Inside the world of 10-and-under competitive cheerleading.
Samantha Shapiro ESPN Feb 2010 15min Permalink
“Howard Stern’s a bad motherfucker, man..if I had to be on six hours a day, it would be just as nasty and foul and not sophisticated. The fact that you’re going to see me do an hour every four years? Reduce Howard Stern to an hour every four years, you’d have the most brilliant comedian who ever lived. It’s not even close.”
Chris Rock, Scott Raab Esquire Mar 2011 Permalink
The next frontier of search is… everything. Voice recognition, image recognition, and why Google’s data set is one of the most valuable scientific tools of our age.
Wade Roush Xconomy Jan 2011 30min Permalink
Is it time to end the mourning period for old media?
James Fallows The Atlantic Apr 2011 30min Permalink
A veteran reporter investigates his own beating.
John Conroy Chicago Magazine Sep 2009 Permalink
How Dan Savage became America’s leading ethicist.
Memories of the author’s teenage years, when his father pulled up stakes on a comfortable life in Baltimore to reinvent himself as the head of a S&L bank in Los Angeles.
Eric Puchner GQ Mar 2011 20min Permalink
Inside the most ubiquitous distraction of its era.
Tom Cheshire Wired (UK) Apr 2011 20min Permalink