How to Save a Loggerhead
What does it take to save a 300-pound loggerhead with a horrible injury? Inside the yearlong journey of recovery.
Showing 25 articles matching physics of music.
What does it take to save a 300-pound loggerhead with a horrible injury? Inside the yearlong journey of recovery.
Justin Heckert Garden and Gun Aug 2019 20min Permalink
Mexico is now importing lots of its baseball talent from America.
Joseph Bien-Kahn Gen Sep 2019 Permalink
Politicians want to rein in the retail giant. But Jeff Bezos, the master of cutthroat capitalism, is ready to fight back.
Charles Duhigg New Yorker Oct 2019 50min Permalink
Texans receiver DeAndre Hopkins says he owes his career to his mom. When you hear her remarkable story of survival, you’ll understand his devotion.
Mina Kimes ESPN Oct 2019 15min Permalink
The first magazine profile of the actor in more than 20 years.
Jamie Lauren Keiles New York Times Magazine Nov 2019 30min Permalink
Eira Thomas’s company has used radical new methods to find some of the biggest uncut gems in history.
Ed Caesar The New Yorker Jan 2020 40min Permalink
Medical examiners provide crucial insights into public health and safety. What happens when we don’t have enough of them?
Jordan Kisner New York Times Magazine Feb 2020 20min Permalink
Two well-liked Twitter employees accessed thousands of users’ private information and illegally passed it to the Saudi Royal Family, per the FBI.
Alex Kantrowitz Buzzfeed Feb 2020 10min Permalink
A speech on the value of being alone with your thoughts, delivered to the plebe class at West Point.
William Deresiewicz The American Scholar Apr 2010 25min Permalink
Ramsey Orta filmed the killing of Eric Garner—and the police punished him for it.
Chloé Cooper Jones The Verge Mar 2019 30min Permalink
A renowned scholar claimed that he discovered a first-century gospel fragment. Now he’s facing allegations of antiquities theft, cover-up, and fraud.
Ariel Sabar The Atlantic May 2020 35min Permalink
Open source materials suggest that, for now, the apocalyptic, anti-government politics of the “Boogaloo Bois” are not monolithically racist/neo-Nazi. As we have observed, some members rail against police shootings of African Americans, and praise black nationalist self defense groups.
But the materials also demonstrate that however irony-drenched it may appear to be, this is a movement actively preparing for armed confrontation with law enforcement, and anyone else who would restrict their expansive understanding of the right to bear arms. In a divided, destabilized post-coronavirus landscape, they could well contribute to widespread violence in the streets of American cities.
Robert Evans, Jason Wilson Bellingcat May 2020 25min Permalink
In an Arkansas jail with one of the America’s largest coronavirus outbreaks, prison terms become death sentences.
Rachel Aviv New Yorker Jun 2020 30min Permalink
When a spring breaker goes missing, a seasoned investigator uncovers devil worship and a sinister cult at the heart of the drug trade.
Corey Mead Truly*Adventurous Jun 2020 Permalink
What kinds of space are we willing to live and work in now?
Kyle Chayka New Yorker Jun 2020 20min Permalink
One of the last interviews with the congressman and civil-rights legend, who died Friday.
Zak Cheney-Rice New York Jun 2020 Permalink
Brutality and resistance on the front lines of Hong Kong’s battle for democracy.
Lauren Hilgers The Atavist Magazine Jul 2020 35min Permalink
In 1989, USC had a depth chart of a dozen linebackers. Five have died, each before age 50.
Michael Rosenberg Sports Illustrated Oct 2020 30min Permalink
A mother’s fight to save a Black, mentally ill 11-year-old boy in a time of a pandemic and rising racial unrest.
Hannah Dreier Washington Post Oct 2020 Permalink
How the waters off of LA became a DDT dumping ground.
Rosanna Xia Los Angeles Times Oct 2020 30min Permalink
A profile of the Daily Show host.
Wesley Lowery GQ Nov 2020 20min Permalink
A 17,000-word exploration of the Sahara Desert, the hottest place on Earth.
William Langewiesche The Atlantic Nov 1991 1h10min Permalink
The dark secret life of The Great Zucchini, Washington D.C.’s most sought after children’s birthday party entertainer.
Gene Weingarten Washington Post Jan 2006 25min Permalink
Thousands of patients report lingering symptoms. Can research into another mysterious syndrome help?
Diné activist Nicole Horseherder’s long quest for equity from the rise and fall of the coal economy.
Jessica Kutz High Country News Feb 2021 15min Permalink