Twilight of the Bomb
A physicist remembers working on the Manhattan Project.
Showing 25 articles matching physics of music.
A physicist remembers working on the Manhattan Project.
Brian Merchant Motherboard Aug 2015 20min Permalink
She stumbled into communist circles, and it nearly derailed her career.
John Meroney The Atlantic Aug 2015 25min Permalink
The Maryland man who houses antique feminine hygiene products.
Arielle Pardes Vice Sep 2015 10min Permalink
On the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, women express themselves through fierce short poems.
Eliza Griswold Outside Apr 2014 15min Permalink
What does it mean to be polite anymore?
Rachel Cusk New York Times Magazine Feb 2017 25min Permalink
Meet the giant green rock that seduces and destroys.
Elizabeth Weil Wired Mar 2017 25min Permalink
How Netflix and Amazon upended the movie business.
Sean Fennessey The Ringer Apr 2017 30min Permalink
How a home-schooled teenager became an oxy kingpin.
Joe Eaton Pacific Standard Nov 2017 25min Permalink
Chaos and heroism during a Kentucky school shooting.
Andrew Wolfson, Justin Sayers The Courier Journal Feb 2018 10min Permalink
On the road with the world’s greatest hitchhiker.
Wes Enzinna New York Times Magazine Mar 2018 30min Permalink
The most prolific bank robber in Texas history.
Helen Thorpe Texas Monthly Mar 1997 30min Permalink
A profile.
Caity Weaver New York Times Magazine Sep 2018 25min Permalink
When the Swiss Alps heat up, the ice gives up bodies and secrets.
Sean Flynn GQ Oct 2018 20min Permalink
On a Presidential paper trail.
Robert A. Caro New Yorker Jan 2019 50min Permalink
An unfinished civil war inspires a global delusion.
James Pogue Harper's Feb 2019 30min Permalink
How pop-up tax preparers make billions off the poor.
Gary Rivlin Mother Jones Mar 2011 15min Permalink
On Dooce.com founder Heather Armstrong.
Chavie Lieber Vox May 2019 20min Permalink
So you’re surrounded by idiots. Guess who the real jerk is.
Eric Schwitzgebel Aeon Jun 2014 15min Permalink
On the “white gold” that fueled slavery.
Khalil Gibran Muhammad New York Times Magazine Aug 2019 30min Permalink
How social media, FaceTune, and plastic surgery created a single, cyborgian look.
Jia Tolentino New Yorker Dec 2019 20min Permalink
How one company helps landlords exploit a loophole in New York’s tenant laws.
Joshua Hunt The Nation Feb 2020 15min Permalink
On Toyin Salau’s disappearance and death.
Samantha Schuyler Jezebel Aug 2020 25min Permalink
A dispatch from the pandemic under Governor Kristi Noem.
Stephen Rodrick Rolling Stone Mar 2021 30min Permalink
The boutique that defined early-aughts L.A. style has taken an unexpected turn.
Bridget Read The Cut Aug 2021 30min Permalink
On the appearance of an angel.
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Gabriel García Márquez New American Review Jan 1971 10min Permalink