Uncanny Valley
Living and working in the tech world.
Showing 25 articles matching fk33.cc_Good Quality Magnesium Sulfate in China.
Living and working in the tech world.
Anna Wiener n+1 Apr 2016 25min Permalink
“The crisis in Flint isn’t over. It’s everywhere.”
Ben Paynter Wired Jun 2016 Permalink
Life for women in the trucking industry.
Mary Pilon Mary Review Jul 2016 25min Permalink
A war on wolves in Utah.
Jeremy Miller Harper's Dec 2016 25min Permalink
Chess in Cuba.
Brin-Jonathan Butler Southwest the Magazine May 2016 15min Permalink
On oil spills in Colombia.
Jessica Camille Aguirre Harper's Feb 2021 15min Permalink
In 2008, Hana Williams left an Ethiopian orphanage to join a large, Christian fundamentalist family in America. Three years later she was dead.
Kathryn Joyce Slate Nov 2013 35min Permalink
Three Americans are held hostage in Iran for two years, much of it spent in solitary confinement.
Shane Bauer, Josh Fattal, Sarah Shourd Mother Jones Mar 2014 40min Permalink
On settling in Los Angeles after life as a war correspondent in the Middle East.
Kelly McEvers Lenny Apr 2016 Permalink
Behind a Muslim community in northern Wyoming — and 20 percent of all Muslims in the state — lies one very enterprising man.
Kathryn Schulz New Yorker May 2016 30min Permalink
Supreme, founded by a secretive self-made millionaire in 1994, is the most influential streetwear brand in the world.
Kyle Chayka Racked Jul 2016 Permalink
An interview with the Japanese artist, who has resided in a mental institution since committing herself in 1975.
Grady Turner, Yayoi Kusama BOMB Magazine Dec 1999 20min Permalink
In 2003, a platoon of American soldiers opened fire on a family in a Baghdad intersection. A decade later, one of the shooters tracks down the survivors.
Dexter Filkins New Yorker Oct 2012 35min Permalink
On cushy jobs in web development, deeply un-cushy opportunities in writing, and our assumptions about the value of labor.
James Somers Aeon Jun 2013 15min Permalink
The story of Melissa Barthelemy, a prostitute killed in a string of murders on Long Island in December 2010.
Robert Kolker Slate Jul 2013 15min Permalink
Elias Pompa is the lone deputy in one of the poorest counties in Texas. He is also at the center of the U.S. border crisis.
Eli Saslow Washington Post Aug 2014 Permalink
The central witness in “one of the biggest cases of white-collar crime in American history” speaks out.
Matt Taibbi Rolling Stone Nov 2014 25min Permalink
On the “Pacification Process,” or how we ended up in the least violent moment in our species’ existence.
Steven Pinker EDGE Sep 2011 45min Permalink
On stolen bicycles, “a solvent in America’s underground economy, a currency in the world of drug addicts and petty thieves.”
Patrick Symmes Outside Jan 2012 25min Permalink
George Wright spent more time on the lam, 41 years, than any fugitive in American history. Last fall, after being caught in a rural Portuguese village, he told his story.
Michael Finkel GQ May 2012 35min Permalink
In 2003, Gary Coleman ran for governor of California. But what he really wanted was to have never come to Hollywood in the first place.
Hank Stuever Washington Post Aug 2003 15min Permalink
In the early ’80s, underground chemists cooked up synthetic versions of heroin that took over the market in California—and left young users with symptoms typically associated with Parkinson’s.
Jack Shafer Science 85 Mar 1985 Permalink
Best Article Arts Business Music
In the early 1960s, Middle Eastern guys in Brooklyn introduced America to Arabic rock-and-roll.
Saki Knafo The Believer Jul 2010 10min Permalink
A history of entrepreneurship in New York City, starting with shipping magnate Jeremiah Thompson’s big gamble in the 1820s: scheduled departures.
Edward L. Glaeser City Journal Nov 2010 20min Permalink
The enigmatic life and death of Bruno Zehnder, who obsessively photographed penguins in the ice fields outside of a Russian base in Antarctica.
Ned Zeman Vanity Fair Jan 2000 45min Permalink