Baudrillard and Babes at the Consumer Electronics Show
A trip to CES, “what a World’s Fair might look like if brands were more important than countries.”
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A trip to CES, “what a World’s Fair might look like if brands were more important than countries.”
Lydia DePillis The New Republic Jan 2013 20min Permalink
A five-part investigation into “private re-homing,” in which adoptive parents give their problem children away with the help of internet message boards.
Megan Twohey Reuters Sep 2013 1h Permalink
Investigating San Francisco’s OneTaste, which promises personal and professional success through the practice of orgasmic meditation.
Nitasha Tiku Gawker Oct 2013 35min Permalink
On the volunteer “Wikipedians” who devote their free time to editing Wikipedia.
Jonathan Dee New York Times Magazine Jul 2007 20min Permalink
Rethinking Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil.
Mark Lilla New York Review of Books Nov 2013 15min Permalink
How four prisoners in solitary confinement launched the largest hunger strike in American history.
Benjamin Wallace-Wells New York Feb 2014 30min Permalink
Inside Obama’s most glaring reversal.
Anne E. Kornblut, Peter Finn Washington Post Apr 2011 15min Permalink
A profile of Christopher Brosius, the “Willy Wonka of fragrances,” whose latest creation is designed to not be smelled.
Geoffrey Gray New York Apr 2011 Permalink
A profile of Hank Williams III.
Elizabeth Gilbert GQ Dec 2000 35min Permalink
On the enduring appeal, both amateur and academic, of man vs. dinosaur.
Bryan Curtis Grantland Oct 2011 10min Permalink
How the China National Tobacco Corp., which manufactures 2.5 trillion cigarettes per year, came to make more money than Apple.
Andrew Martin Businessweek Dec 2014 15min Permalink
A New York lawyer’s attempt to secure an American aid worker’s release from ISIS.
Ali Younes, Shiv Malik, Spencer Ackerman, Mustafa Khalili The Guardian Dec 2014 25min Permalink
People have been having fun with nitrous oxide—often in the name of science—since its discovery more than 240 years ago.
Linda Rodriguez Boing Boing Jan 2015 15min Permalink
With a little South American reinterpretation, Confederate imagery becomes harmless kitsch. Or does it?
Mimi Dwyer Vice Feb 2015 20min Permalink
The Scandinavians had an idea that seems wacky to Americans: make a prison safe and livable.
David Simon and Richard Price, two of the greatest crime storytellers of our time, talk about their craft.
David Simon, Richard Price Guernica Apr 2015 25min Permalink
John Barrymore once had a totem pole on his Beverly Hills estate. But where did it come from?
Paige Williams New Yorker Apr 2015 25min Permalink
What happens when a successfully funded Kickstarter product fails to launch?
Gideon Lewis-Kraus New York Times Magazine Apr 2015 20min Permalink
In 1988, 59 fifth graders in Washington D.C. were promised a free college education. This is the story of what followed.
Paul Schwartzman Washington Post Dec 2011 40min Permalink
How an increase in the earth’s temperature could wipe out a continent.
Jeff Goodell Rolling Stone Oct 2011 30min Permalink
A report from the oil boom in North Dakota, where unemployment is 3.4 percent and McDonald’s gives out $300 signing bonuses.
Eric Koningsberg New Yorker Apr 2011 30min Permalink
A story of endurance in the face of unimaginably brutal conditions.
Mike Dash Smithsonian Jan 2012 15min Permalink
What happened after Joan Lefkow’s husband and mother were murdered in her home.
Mary Schmich The Chicago Tribune Nov 2005 40min Permalink
In 1981, Randall Smith murdered two hikers on the Appalachian Trail. Twenty-seven years later, he tried to do it again.
Wil Haygood Washington Post Jul 2008 25min Permalink
A group of Long Island misfits with aspirations towards Satanic worship disappeared into the woods to take mescaline. One of them never came back.
David Breskin Rolling Stone Nov 1984 30min Permalink