How Athletes Get Great
An interview on nature vs. nurture with the author of The Sports Gene: Inside the Science Of Extraordinary Athletic Performance.
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An interview on nature vs. nurture with the author of The Sports Gene: Inside the Science Of Extraordinary Athletic Performance.
Jeremy Repanich, David Epstein Outside Aug 2013 20min Permalink
A talk on personal data and the people who collect it:
"Let me ask a trick question. What was the most damaging data breach in the last 12 months? The trick answer is: it's likely something we don't even know about."
Maciej Ceglowski Idle Words Sep 2015 Permalink
A behind-the-scenes look at a U.S. attack against civilians near Khod: “the high-tech wizardry would fail in its most elemental purpose: to tell the difference between friend and foe.”
David S. Cloud The Los Angeles Times Apr 2011 10min Permalink
Tim Masters becomes the main suspect in a gruesome Colorado murder; he’s eventually convicted thanks the work of a revered detective. Then the case unravels: DNA proves another man committed the crime.
Mitch Gelman 5280 Jan 2012 45min Permalink
Inside the Quidditch World Cup.
Eric Hansen Outside Jun 2012 20min Permalink
The tormenting of Wen Ho Lee.
Wil S. Hylton Esquire Dec 2000 25min Permalink
The allure of invisibility.
Kathryn Schulz New Yorker Apr 2015 15min Permalink
Kevin Fulton, a spy planted in the IRA, thought he was dead when he faced interrogation by a notorious IRA enforcer. But, it turned out, the enforcer was also an agent. How British intelligence undermined the IRA.
Matthew Teague The Atlantic Apr 2006 25min 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
How the actor ended up with a house full of tourniquets and syringes, an unflinching belief in the restorative powers of “ozone,” and the brain scan of someone who has “experienced the equivalent of blunt trauma.”
Daniel Voll Esquire Oct 1999 45min Permalink
The writer (Aaron Sorkin), director (David Fincher), and actors (Jesse Eisenberg & Justin Timberlake) of The Social Network on dramatizing the real story of a 20 year old into “the Citizen Kane of John Hughes movies.”
Mark Harris New York Sep 2010 25min Permalink
If Annie Leibovitz sold her work through the traditional channels of the art world, she would have amassed a small fortune. But at the tail end of a career that has snubbed art galleries and collectors, she is destitute.
John Gapper The Financial Times Oct 2010 15min Permalink
Memories of the expat revolutionary scene in 1980s Nicaragua. An excerpt from Revolution: The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War.
Deb Olin Unferth The Believer Jan 2011 10min Permalink
What Egypt learned from the students who overthrew Milosevic. “The Serbs are not the usual highly paid consultants in suits from wealthy countries; they look more like, well, cocky students. They bring a cowboy swagger. They radiate success. Everyone they teach wants to do what the Serbs did.”
Tina Rosenberg Foreign Policy Feb 2011 Permalink
The trouble with the all-but-obligatory networking site, “an Escher staircase masquerading as a career ladder.”
Ann Friedman The Baffler Sep 2013 15min Permalink
“Will you show me all of the man-in-the-street, sympathetic, mayoral candidates? The last time I met one of them on the subway was a long time ago. Let’s not get too carried away.”
Chris Smith New York Sep 2013 25min Permalink
A journey through Venezuela, once the richest country in South America, but now collapsing under the weight of the world’s highest rates of inflation and violent crime.
William Finnegan New Yorker Nov 2016 40min Permalink
An essay on wielding the scythe.
Paul Kingsnorth Orion Jan 2012 35min Permalink
The end of a marriage.
Rachel Cusk Granta May 2011 35min Permalink
The Nxivm initiation was supposed to open up a secret sisterhood. After giving up compromising photographs to the recruiter “master,” each woman was expecting a tattoo. Instead they received 2-inch brands that seemed to suggest the initials of the cults founder, Keith Raniere.
Barry Meier New York Times Oct 2017 10min Permalink
With “The Apprentice,” the TV producer mythologized Trump—then a floundering D-lister—as the ultimate titan, paving his way to the Presidency.
Patrick Radden Keefe New Yorker Dec 2018 50min Permalink
Last summer, in a small Wisconsin city, the country’s fiercest differences collided in the streets—and a teenager named Kyle Rittenhouse opened fire, shooting three people. In the aftermath, a disquieting question loomed: Were these among the first shots in a new kind of civil war?
Doug Bock Clark GQ Mar 2021 35min Permalink
The author interviews England in prison:
By now, people all over the world have heard of Lynndie England. She's the "Small-Town Girl Who Became an All-American Monster," as one Australian newspaper headline described her, or "the girl with a leash," as Mick Jagger calls her in the song "Dangerous Beauty." Yet England remains a mystery. Is she a torturer? A pawn? Another victim of the Iraq war? While the world weighed in, England said very little.
Tara McKelvey Marie Claire May 2009 Permalink
A profile of the “smart person’s” astrologer, and the people who believe in horopscopes.
Molly Young New York Feb 2013 15min Permalink
An appreciation of the hometown team.
Woody Allen The New York Observer May 1998 10min Permalink