Steve Jobs and the Portal to the Invisible
A profile of Jobs. The themes: immortality, relinquishing control, and how being adopted affected his choices for Apple. The lede: “One day, Steve Jobs is going to die.”
A profile of Jobs. The themes: immortality, relinquishing control, and how being adopted affected his choices for Apple. The lede: “One day, Steve Jobs is going to die.”
A profile of the Time Man of the Year for 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Fifteen years ago, Sherry Turkle developed a little crush on a robot named Cog. Since then, the MIT professor has been studying our ever-increasing emotional reliance on technology. She’s not optimistic about where we’re headed.
Jeffrey R. Young The Chronicle of Higher Education Jan 2011 10min Permalink
A famed attorney begins a transformation away from being a man; and dies after a companion shoves her under an oncoming train.
Elizabeth Day The Guardian Jan 2011 20min Permalink
On the late comedian Bill Hicks, just as a performance on Letterman is deemed unfit for network TV.
John Lahr New Yorker Nov 1993 20min Permalink
The transfiguration of Jared Loughner.
Dan Barry New York Times Jan 2011 Permalink
Searching for Jimmy Robinson, a boxer who fought Muhammad Ali in 1961, then disappeared.
Wright Thompson ESPN Dec 2009 35min Permalink
George Lois never actually worked at Esquire, he simply designed the most iconic magazine covers of the 60s as a moonlighting gig while revolutionizing (and, generally pissing off) the advertising industry by day.
George Lois, Rocco Castoro Vice Jan 2011 20min Permalink
The decline of the American autopsy and what it says about modern medicine.
Atul Gawande New Yorker Mar 2001 20min Permalink
How a young state rep from Missouri, seemingly guaranteed political greatness, ended up behind bars.
Jason Zengerle The New Republic Jan 2011 25min Permalink
How the social networks that popped up in Facebook’s absence—the site is not available behind the Great Firewall—are changing Chinese culture.
April Rabkin Fast Company Feb 2011 Permalink
The enigmatic life and death of Bruno Zehnder, who obsessively photographed penguins in the ice fields outside of a Russian base in Antarctica.
Ned Zeman Vanity Fair Jan 2000 45min Permalink
On a Duke student’s now infamous Powerpoint presentation of her sexual history; binge-drinking, post-feminism, and Mario Kart.
Caitlin Flanagan The Atlantic Jan 2011 20min Permalink
A profile of the director, written from the set of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.
Lynn Hirschberg W Jan 2011 15min Permalink
On Huck Finn, the book Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word, and the evolution of language and race in America.
Hilton Als New Yorker Feb 2002 20min Permalink
On the expanding community of American parents who believe, despite abundant evidence to the contrary, that there is a link between routine vaccinations and autism.
Seth Mnookin Simon and Schuster Jan 2011 Permalink
How the dream of the Euro became a nightmare.
Paul Krugman New York Times Magazine Jan 2011 25min Permalink
How the relationship between favela-based drug gangs and elite police units tasked with fighting them came to define Rio de Janeiro.
How to kick heroin in 24 hours.
Joshua Davis Wired Jan 2005 15min Permalink
A jogging buddy collapses during a marathon, his heart suddenly finished beating. The writer goes looking for answers.
Joshua Davis Men's Health Aug 2007 Permalink
Guz Dominguez says he was trying to help baseball players from Cuba; the U.S. government says he was smuggling athletes. The truth is more complicated.
Michael Lewis Vanity Fair Jul 2008 1h5min Permalink
“As we enter into a new age, maybe art will be free. Maybe the students are right. They should be able to download music and movies. I’m going to be shot for saying this. But who said art has to cost money?”
Ariston Anderson, Francis Ford Coppola The 99 Percent Jan 2011 10min Permalink
On the psychology of a rescue worker after years of responding to disaster.
Hampton Sides Outside Jan 2011 20min Permalink
On gay life in Saudi Arabia.
Nadya Labi The Atlantic May 2007 25min Permalink
Mattathias Rath made a fortune selling cure-all vitamins in Europe before moving his business to South Africa, where he launched a massive campaign against retroviral AIDS medications and in favor of his own vitamin cocktails. When scientists, AIDS non-profits, and even Medecins San Frontieres objected, he sued.
Ben Goldacre Bad Science Apr 2009 20min Permalink