The Mysterious Death of Sammy Wanjiru
He rose from poverty to fame as a marathon champion at only 23. But was his fall from a balcony outside of Nairobi murder, accident, or suicide?
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He rose from poverty to fame as a marathon champion at only 23. But was his fall from a balcony outside of Nairobi murder, accident, or suicide?
Anna Clark Grantland Oct 2011 15min Permalink
The story of a high school star who died minutes after hitting a game-winner to end an undefeated season, and the family and friends he left behind.
Thomas Lake Sports Illustrated Feb 2012 25min Permalink
The long legal saga of Kerry Max Cook, who was convicted of murdering Linda Jo Edwards in 1977 and sent to death row. After three trials, two overturned convictions and a plea deal, Cook is out of prison but still has the crime on his record. He maintains his innocence.
Mark Donald Dallas Observer Jul 1999 1h Permalink
On the last weekend of April 2011, two things happened in Washington D.C.: the annual White House Correspondents Dinner and the decision to raid Osama bin Laden’s compound. This is the story of how both transpired.
An American mystery writer and an Italian journalist join forces to identify a serial killer that targeted couples having sex in cars in the rolling hills above Florence.
Douglas Preston The Atlantic Jul 2006 Permalink
“Over the past century, coaches have used intuition and discipline to vastly improve athletic performance. Now scientists are taking the last step, helping athletes approach perfection.”
Mark McClusky Wired Jun 2012 15min Permalink
A history of the divide between computing and language, and why we “define and regiment our lives, including our social lives and our perceptions of our selves, in ways that are conducive to what a computer can ‘understand.’”
David Auerbach n+1 Jul 2012 30min Permalink
"Here’s God’s truth about it: being a groupie wasn’t about sex, it was about access. I wanted to live in the stage life, dazzled by color and sound, constantly in motion, driven by excitement and power, loved by the stage lights, part of the story."
Margaret Moser Oxford American Dec 2014 Permalink
In Russia’s Far East, an orphaned female tiger is the test case in an experimental effort to save one of the most endangered animals on earth.
Matthew Shaer Smithsonian Jan 2015 Permalink
Detroit is trying to end the longstanding practice of “scrapping,” which is the only way some of its residents can earn a living.
John Eligon New York Times Mar 2015 15min Permalink
A woman thought a Coen brothers movie was a “true story” and tracked it to her death. Now someone’s made a fictional film about her, further blurring the lines between reality and artifice.
Mike Powell Grantland Mar 2015 10min Permalink
Darren Sharper was once an NFL star. He was also a serial rapist, one who law enforcement failed to stop.
An oral history of Industrial Lights & Magic, which gave birth to Star Wars and countless films, as well as playing a hand in the creation of Photoshop and Pixar.
Alex French, Howie Kahn Wired May 2015 Permalink
A group of Gambian exiles scattered around America plotted to storm the Presidential palace and overthrow a brutal dictator. Their budget? $221,000.
Craig Whitlock, Adam Goldman The Washington Post May 2015 10min Permalink
A review of Treme, the new HBO show about post-Katrina New Orleans from David Simon, creator of The Wire. “The series virtually prohibits you from loving it,” Franklin writes, “while asking you to value it.”
Nancy Franklin New Yorker Apr 2010 Permalink
Gaile Owens was a churchgoing mother of two boys in suburban Memphis. Now she’s the first woman sentenced to die in Tennessee in nearly 200 years. The jury never heard her whole story; this is it.
Brantley Hargrove Nashville Scene Apr 2010 30min Permalink
The second installment of the Gaile Owens story. A former churchgoing mother of two from suburban Memphis, Owens is the first woman to be given the death penalty in Tennessee in nearly 200 years.
Brantley Hargrove Nashville Scene Apr 2010 40min Permalink
A woman is clogging the Lehigh County court system with divorce filings against David Lee Roth and there is nothing the legal system can do to stop her.
Kevin Amerman The Morning Call May 2010 Permalink
Foursquare and Gowalla are in a VC-funded race to become the dominant location-based social network. But their founders say both companies have a larger purpose.
Neal Pollack Wired (UK) Jun 2010 Permalink
Our debt, conscious or unconscious, to what has come before, and what it can tell us about copyright, the public domain, and the complicated relationship between creators and consumers.
Jonathan Lethem Harper's Feb 2007 Permalink
A trip to interview former South Vietnamese premiere Ky on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the reunification of Vietnam ends with government surveillance, partying, and confusion.
Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, on the eve of the release of The Social Network, believed to be a deeply unflattering portrait of him and the genesis of his company.
Jose Antonio Vargas New Yorker Sep 2010 25min Permalink
A Wikipedia-style dissection of the case that inspired The Fugitive. The accused, Dr. Sam Sheppard, claimed to have struggled with an intruder before being knocked out and dumped on a beach, his wife’s left corpse in their house.
Denise Noe Crime Magazine Jun 2010 Permalink
Would you rather have one marshmallow now or two in a few minutes? How a kid’s answer to that question can predict his or her life trajectory.
Jonah Lehrer New Yorker May 2009 20min Permalink
The world’s most renowned chef, Ferran Adrià, says that the only way he can push forward the art form of cooking is to close his own restaurant.
Jay McInerney Vanity Fair Oct 2010 15min Permalink