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A team of researchers has a controversial plan to root fake data out of science.
Stephen Buranyi The Guardian Feb 2017 20min Permalink
A profile of Beatty on the heels of Bonnie and Clyde.
Forty years ago, a trio of student teachers created the most popular educational game of all-time.
Jessica Lussenhop City Pages Jan 2011 Permalink
A profile of the writer and star of Fleabag.
Lauren Collins Vogue Nov 2019 20min Permalink
On the brother of the Sultan of Brunei, Prince Jefri Bolkiah, who has “probably gone through more cash than any other human being on earth.”
Mark Seal Vanity Fair Jul 2011 45min Permalink
An interview with Rudy Giuliani’s fresh-out-of-college head speechwriter, who wrote the eulogies for every policeman and fireman who died on 9/11, giving him “the dark distinction of probably writing more eulogies than anyone else alive.”
Harry Siegel, John Avlon Village Voice Sep 2011 25min Permalink
The story of how Michael Larson cracked the code of Press Your Luck, winning $104,950 in cash, a sailboat ($1,015), and two all-inclusive trips.
Zachary Crockett Priceonomics Sep 2015 10min Permalink
A profile of “the seven-time defending UFC light-heavyweight champion, practically unbeatable, and already maybe the greatest fighter of all time.”
Greg Howard Deadspin Dec 2014 50min Permalink
The strange, gun-filled life of the “King of Instragram,” a failed NAVY Seal trainee turned poker-playing playboy with an exiled fraudster for a father and two heart attacks already under his belt.
Chris Ayres GQ UK Jan 2015 15min Permalink
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A single-page version of Shalhoup’s reporting on the Black Mafia Family, one of the largest cocaine empires in American history.
Over the span of four years, federal investigators estimated millions of dollars stolen from Mexican taxpayers passed through one South Texas bank. When they followed the trail, it led to real estate, cars, and airplanes. But in 2018, those investigations suddenly stopped.
Jason Buch Texas Observer May 2021 20min Permalink
Why hundreds of Buddhist monks moved from Taiwan to Prince Edward Island, buying up thousands of acres of land in the process.
Mark Mann Maisonneuve Jun 2013 20min Permalink
On the lobotomizing of 2,000 U.S. veterans after World War II.
“Americans find it hard to believe that foreigners are unalterably foreign, for they have seen generations of immigrants who became Americans.”
Saul Bellow The New Republic May 1955 10min Permalink
There are 45,000 service members missing in action from WWII and other wars who experts say are recoverable. Last year, the U.S. brought home 60 of them.
Megan McCloskey ProPublica Mar 2014 20min Permalink
Behind a Muslim community in northern Wyoming — and 20 percent of all Muslims in the state — lies one very enterprising man.
Kathryn Schulz New Yorker May 2016 30min Permalink
The story of streetcar 393, which plunged into Fort Point Channel via an open drawbridge in 1916. Forty-six people were killed.
Eric Moskowitz Boston Globe Oct 2016 Permalink
A profile of Sir Dr. NakaMats, who claims to have invented over 3,000 things, including the floppy disk and karaoke machine.
Franz Lidz Smithsonian Dec 2012 1h Permalink
A profile of the Navy Seal who killed Osama bin Laden and came home to a life in shambles.
Why the head of Ringling Bros.-Barnum & Bailey hired a former CIA agent to ruin a freelance writer’s career.
Jeff Stein Salon Aug 2001 20min Permalink
The story of a risky management style gone bust.
Mina Kimes Businessweek Jul 2013 15min Permalink
A profile of the girls basketball team at Carroll Academy, a school run by a rural Tennessee juvenile court.
John Branch New York Times Jul 2013 45min Permalink
The saga of Naji Mansour.
Nick Baumann Mother Jones May 2014 25min Permalink
Vivien Thomas was paid a janitor’s wage, never went to college, and still became a legend in the field of heart surgery.
Katie McCabe Washingtonian Aug 1989 35min Permalink
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