
Out of Thin Air: The Mystery of the Man Who Fell From the Sky
In 2019, the body of a man fell from a passenger plane into a garden in south London. Who was he?
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In 2019, the body of a man fell from a passenger plane into a garden in south London. Who was he?
Sirin Kale Guardian Apr 2021 25min Permalink
A talk from the re:publica conference in Berlin:
The good part about naming a talk in 2017 ‘Notes from an Emergency’ is that there are so many directions to take it. The emergency I want to talk about is the rise of a vigorous ethnic nationalism in Europe and America. This nationalism makes skillful use of online tools, tools that we believed inherently promoted freedom, to advance an authoritarian agenda.
Maciej Ceglowski Idle Words May 2017 20min 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
How four prisoners in solitary confinement launched the largest hunger strike in American history.
Benjamin Wallace-Wells New York Feb 2014 30min Permalink
360 degree deals and the music industry’s new hostages.
Naomi Zeichner Buzzfeed Mar 2014 15min Permalink
Inside Roger Goodell’s troubling (or wildly successful, depending on who you ask) tenure as NFL commissioner.
Gabriel Sherman GQ Feb 2015 20min Permalink
What happened when Pakistan shut down the vitally important Karachi to Kabul trucking line.
Shahan Mufti Businessweek Dec 2011 20min Permalink
A profile of Republican Eric Cantor: six-term congressman, new House majority leader, highest-ranking Jewish elected official in American history.
Allison Hoffman Tablet Feb 2011 Permalink
Being a Muslim-American actor often means being really good at yelling “Allahu Akbar!” before someone kills you.
Jon Ronson GQ Jul 2015 15min Permalink
The plan, basically: bring back the two founders (who were estranged), focus entirely on mobile, and apologize as much as possible.
Jessi Hempel Wired Oct 2015 25min Permalink
On the parasitic relationship between oil and the stock market.
Peter Coy, Matthew Philips Bloomberg Businessweek Feb 2016 10min Permalink
An investigation leads to the deepest reaches of the internet.
Nigel Jaquiss Willamette Week Jul 2017 15min Permalink
“What happens when the thing that might save you is also the thing that might destroy the world?”
Mike Monteiro Medium Oct 2017 10min Permalink
American adolescents watch much more pornography than their parents know.
Maggie Jones New York Times Magazine Feb 2018 20min Permalink
The pandemic comes to Star City, the secretive home of Russia’s space program.
Polina Ivanova Reuters Nov 2020 20min Permalink
The Federal Writers’ Project narratives provide an all-too-rare link to our past.
Clint Smith The Atlantic Feb 2021 30min Permalink
Fighting the romanticism of owning a home in one of the nation’s most competitive housing markets.
Lydia Kiesling The Millions Jan 2016 10min Permalink
On the journey of 24-year-old Jose Fernandez, the Cuban defector turned Major League all-star, who died Sunday.
Jordan Ritter Conn Grantland Jul 2013 20min Permalink
Even for a high-powered “A-Type,” living on forged documentation is an endurance test.
Max Abelson Bloomberg Feb 2015 15min Permalink
Contemplating Gaudi’s unfinished masterpiece, the Sagrada Familia church, as the controversial finishing work is completed.
Stephen Crittenden The Global Mail Feb 2012 10min Permalink
How a legally dubious FBI sting lured a pair of Russian hackers stateside.
Brendan I. Koerner Legal Affairs May 2002 15min Permalink
“There wasn’t anything normal about this.”
Matt Apuzzo, Michael S. Schmidt, Adam Goldman, Eric Lichtblau New York Times Apr 2017 30min Permalink
The performer behind the anti-comedian Neil Hamburger on being comfortable getting booed.
In family court, judges must decide whether the risks at home outweigh the risks of separating a family.
Larissa MacFarquhar New Yorker Jul 2017 45min Permalink
A small group of programmers wants to change how we code—before catastrophe strikes.
James Somers The Atlantic Sep 2017 40min Permalink