Exodus
Elon Musk’s dreams of colonizing Mars.
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Elon Musk’s dreams of colonizing Mars.
Ross Andersen Aeon Sep 2014 30min Permalink
The political maneuvering behind the growth of massive consumer goods warehouses and the health hazards that often follow.
Jessica Garrison Buzzfeed Oct 2014 20min Permalink
Fifty years later, the men who stole priceless gems from the Museum of Natural History recall the crime.
Meryl Gordon Vanity Fair Oct 2014 30min Permalink
The story of John Laroche, which led to Orleans’ The Orchid Thief, and tangentially, the film Adaptation.
Susan Orlean New Yorker Jan 1995 25min Permalink
The perilous existence of confidential informants.
Sarah Stillman New Yorker Aug 2012 30min Permalink
How a group of farmers came to believe that their relatives were returning from the grave.
Abigail Tucker Smithsonian Sep 2012 10h Permalink
How modernity – and an eruption of violence – changed “the most remote inhabited island on the Atlantic seaboard.”
Geoffrey Douglas Yankee Sep 2011 Permalink
A “crude table-tennis arcade game” called Pong and the birth of the video game industry.
Chris Stokel-Walker Buzzfeed Nov 2012 20min Permalink
Analysis of the divisive murder case.
Gene Weingarten Washington Post Dec 2012 25min Permalink
On high school basketball star Chris Tang and the pressures of being the “Great Yellow Hope.”
Jay Caspian Kang Grantland Dec 2012 25min Permalink
From pinball prohibition in 1940s NYC to Dave & Buster’s, the rise and fall of the American arcade.
Laura June The Verge Jan 2012 30min Permalink
In search of the former boxing champ, who refuses to believe he has HIV.
Elizabeth Merrill ESPN Aug 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
The homeless population of New York City is higher than it’s been in decades. Nobody seems to notice.
Ian Frazier New Yorker Oct 2013 40min Permalink
The realities of the fighting life.
Matthew Stanmyre The Star-Ledger Nov 2013 25min Permalink
The fight to vaccinate children in the border regions between Pakistan and Afghanistan as part of an attempt to eradicate polio worldwide.
Matthieu Aikins Wired Nov 2013 Permalink
An oral history project involving former IRA members becomes a prolonged court battle over a four-decade-old murder.
Beth McMurtrie The Chronicle of Higher Education Jan 2014 30min Permalink
Spending time with the Tonya Harding Fan Club in the wake of the assault on Nancy Kerrigan.
Susan Orlean New Yorker Feb 1995 20min Permalink
How a group of vigilante cat-lovers seeking the hooded figure who suffocated a kitten in an internet video found a sadistic killer.
Bill Jensen Rolling Stone Mar 2014 30min Permalink
Thoughts on the current era of online anonymity.
Tess Lynch The Morning News Mar 2011 Permalink
A story written about Twitter and one its founders, Evan Williams, when the company’s chief source of revenue was subletting desks in their partially filled office.
Max Chafkin Inc. Mar 2008 15min Permalink
How a herbalist who used to swim naked with Allen Ginsberg became one of conservative talk radio’s most vicious—and listened to—hosts.
David Gilson Salon Mar 2003 20min Permalink
On Sebastian Junger’s War and the documentary Restrepo by Tim Hetherington, who was killed in Libya yesterday.
Sue Halpern New York Review of Books Aug 2010 10min Permalink
Henry Luce and Time vs. Harold Ross and The New Yorker. What was at stake in the epic magazine rivalry of the 20th century?
Jill Lepore New Yorker Apr 2010 25min Permalink