GQ moved up the release of this Charlie Sheen profile: ”The fucking AA shit. The sobriety shit. It was always for other people. I just wanted to get a job back and get enough money to tell everybody to go fuck themselves and then roll like Errol Flynn and Frank Sinatra—the good parts of those guys.”

She went to jail 35 years ago after driving the getaway car in an infamous robbery and defiantly refusing to admit the act was wrong. Her sentence was 75 years. But something changed in prison — Judy Clark went from radical to model inmate. This week her sentence was commuted.

Forty-five years ago, Buzz Aldrin became the second man to walk on the moon. It made him one of the most famous people in the world. And it has haunted the rest of his life.

“We take it that all young writers overestimate their work. It’s impossible not to—I mean if you recognized what shit you were writing, you wouldn’t write it. You have to believe in your stuff—every day has to be the new day on which the new poem may be it.”

The author on his reverence for water.

The journey of a river from source to mouth resembles our own journey from birth to death, an analogy oft remarked, and yet the beginnings and endings of rivers are as fictional as those we impose on stories. There are headwaters to headwaters and no river ever really ends.

The scientists working to free those trapped between life and death.

The Chinese team heads to the home of elite running.

On “the Negro’s ambivalent relation to the Jew.”

From Norwegian waters to European plates.

The debate surrounding Truvada, the first drug approved by the FDA to prevent HIV.

When a child has a condition that’s new to science.

When adults like Billy Smolinski go missing, it’s hard to get the authorities involved.

The author attempts to interview Grigori Perelman, a reclusive mathematical genius.

Trying to fix the Atlantic Ocean’s food chain.

Ashlyn Blocker, 13, has a “congenital insensitivity to pain.”

How Republicans came to be the party of white people.

How to photograph Los Angeles from a helicopter.

Why some innovations spread quick while others take decades to catch hold.

Ego, hubris, and the failure to adapt.

A technical explanation of the real program to sabotage Iran’s nuclear facilities.

The wild competition to be “worshipped” by Alaska’s most eligible bachelors.

A young mother transplants her family to Bahia.

A profile of Rupert Murdoch, written before his empire began to crumble.

On the insurer’s insurer and calculating the risk of modern catastrophe:

Reinsurers are ultimately responsible for every new thing that God can come up with. As losses grew this decade, year by year, reinsurers have been working to figure out what they can do to make the God clause smaller, to reduce their exposure. They have billions of dollars at stake. They are very good at thinking about the world to come.