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What happens when Moneyball-style statistical analysis is applied to mixed martial arts.
Leon Neyfakh The Boston Globe Apr 2012 10min Permalink
The story of Nicole Davis, a 25-year-old woman diagnosed with breast cancer six months into her pregnancy.
Megan Feldman 5280 Aug 2011 25min Permalink
What happens when a complete stranger becomes convinced you’re the Zodiac killer.
Michael O'Hare Washington Monthly May 2009 10min Permalink
“What could possibly be funnier than depositing a perfectly ridiculous, obviously false, fake cheque?”
Patrick Combs The Financial Times Aug 2012 10min Permalink
Celebrity, bottle service, and Tiger Woods’ unintentional introduction of “halfway hooker” into the American lexicon.
Lisa Taddeo New York Apr 2010 25min Permalink
Paul Krugman breaks down the basics of climate change economics, from Arthur Cecil Pigou to Capitol Hill.
Paul Krugman New York Times Apr 2010 20min Permalink
An emerging school of therapy says that scripting your dreams while awake could eliminate the worst ones. Not everyone thinks that’s healthy.
Sarah Kershaw New York Times Jul 2010 Permalink
Alex Haley interviews the Honorable Elijah Muhammad’s number two - Malcolm X - in a Harlem restaurant.
Alex Haley, Malcolm X Playboy May 1963 35min Permalink
Fifty-four days after his group’s Everest climb turned tragic, Krakauer first told the story of what had gone wrong.
Jon Krakauer Outside Sep 1996 15min Permalink
Mr. Lindall was the only high school teacher who understood him. Then Mr. Lindall went to jail, and it was his turn to try to understand.
Robert Kurson Esquire Mar 2000 Permalink
The author joins his father’s work crew, gutting out foreclosed houses in Florida and interviewing their former residents.
Paul Reyes Harper's Oct 2008 Permalink
On public radio and the emerging genre of shows inspired by This American Life.
In Detroit, the aftermath of a reality-TV SWAT raid that killed a sleeping seven-year-old.
Charlie LeDuff Mother Jones Nov 2010 Permalink
A profile of Esquire features writer Chris Jones. Plus: the Jones archive on Longform.org.
Matthew Scianitti Ryerson Review Dec 2010 15min Permalink
A remembrance of relationships formed when the author, at 13 and using a false identity, frequented hockey chat rooms.
Katie Baker Deadspin Jan 2011 20min Permalink
SNL in its grim twentieth season through the lens of first (and only) year cast-member Janeane Garofalo.
Chris Smith New York Mar 1995 35min Permalink
A profile of the congressman turned morning show host, who spends his free time working on a musical about Donald Trump.
Jason Zengerle GQ Sep 2016 20min Permalink
On the downfall of Deutsche Bank.
Ullrich Fichtner, Hauke Goos, Martin Hesse Der Spiegel Oct 2016 40min Permalink
In the last year alone, over 150,000 people have risked their lives to leave.
Nicholas Casey New York Times Nov 2016 15min Permalink
How the Robin Hood of gamblers got ensnared in a money laundering scheme led by former football players.
David Amsden Rolling Stone Nov 2016 30min Permalink
Did a forgotten black gumshoe inspire the famous works of both Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett?
Daniel Miller LA Times Nov 2014 10min Permalink
Hanging out with a new celebrity class: the teen kings and queens of social media.
Ellen Cushing Buzzfeed Jul 2015 30min Permalink
The life of Kimi Peck, a former screenwriter, once married to Gregory Peck’s son, who turned to “saving” stray dogs.
Carol Mithers Los Angeles Jul 2015 25min Permalink
What happens to the people who film famous incidents of police violence.
Jon Swaine, Oliver Laughland Guardian Aug 2015 15min Permalink
Our favorite articles by the neurologist and writer, who died Sunday.
A patient with Tourette’s resents the treatment for it.
London Review of Books Mar 1981 15min
Being treated, as a doctor, is not all it’s cracked up to be.
London Review of Books Jun 1982 25min
A man’s deteriorating mind can only make sense of the world through music.
London Review of Books May 1983 15min
On blindness.
New York Review of Books Apr 1991 10min
On Temple Grandin.
New Yorker Dec 1993 1h10min
A hike gone terribly wrong.
New York Review of Books Jun 1984 25min
Memories of a scientific childhood.
New Yorker Dec 2012 45min
On life with amnesia and the role that music plays in memory.
New Yorker Apr 2007 30min
Self-experiments in chemistry.
New Yorker Apr 2012 25min
Sacks on learning he had terminal cancer.
New York Times Feb 2015
A final conversation.
Radiolab May 2015
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