The Yoga Mogul
John Friend, who founded a new school of yoga, says the practice should be about both exercise and spirituality. Oh, and making money.
Great articles, every Saturday.
John Friend, who founded a new school of yoga, says the practice should be about both exercise and spirituality. Oh, and making money.
Mimi Swartz New York Times Magazine Jul 2010 Permalink
When spouses get upset because their husband or wife wants to be frozen upon death, it’s not because they find the practice sacrilegious. It’s because their partner is consciously considering a future without them.
Kerry Howley New York Times Magazine Jul 2010 10min Permalink
A mission in Baghdad to let a photojournalist get a shot of an insurgent corpse ends up getting a Marine killed.
Dexter Filkins New York Times Magazine Aug 2008 25min Permalink
A 1988 profile of Bill Murray, then at the peak of his box office power and living in a secluded farmhouse in the Hudson River Valley.
Will we deplete the worldwide Bluefin Tuna population beyond repair?
It’s the furthest artificial intelligence has come. And while the supercomputer may get attention for competing on Jeopardy!, Watson could also change everything from customer service to emergency rooms.
Clive Thompson New York Times Magazine Jun 2010 25min Permalink
The science of same-sex relationships in the wild.
Jon Mooallem New York Times Magazine Mar 2010 30min Permalink
Squatters in Buffalo, NY enjoy a life of “decadent poverty” fixing up palatial mansions.
Jake Halpern New York Times Magazine May 2010 Permalink
In a windowless room just outside of New York City, overworked air traffic controllers manage the world’s most-trafficked piece of sky—until all those blips on the screen become too much.
Darcy Frey New York Times Magazine Mar 1996 35min Permalink
Job Cohen, the current mayor of Amsterdam, is leading the Dutch race for Prime Minister on a platform of racial integration that could transform the relationship between European politics and immigration.
The contradiction-rich world of Maya Arulpragasam.
After his untimely death at age 50, prior to the publication of any of his novels, Larsson is posthumously at the center of a publishing empire built on the international success of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
The nation watched live as Robert O’Donnell rescued Baby Jessica from that well in Texas in October, 1987. Then they stopped watching, and Robert O’Donnell was lost without the attention.
Lisa Belkin New York Times Magazine Jul 1995 30min Permalink
Both the Chinese government and private matchmakers are laboring to unite people who lost spouses and children in the earthquake.
Brook Larmer New York Times Magazine May 2010 Permalink
An excerpt from Night of the Gun, the memoir by New York Times media critic David Carr about his years as a junkie in late-‘80s Minneapolis.
David Carr New York Times Magazine Jul 2008 25min Permalink
Playing beer pong with David Axelrod—and other scenes from the lives of young, high-profile aides in the Obama White House.
A growing movement is seeking a deeper knowledge of themselves through tracking sleep, exercise, sex, food, location, productivity. Technology has made it possible—but hasn’t taught us how to interpret the findings.
Gary Wolf New York Times Magazine Apr 2010 Permalink
How the daily e-mail from Mike Allen, Politico’s star reporter, has become a morning ritual for Washington’s elite.