The history of blue jeans, “America’s greatest contribution to the global closet.”

A participant in a deadly shooting spree decides to snitch on his friends.

A mother struggles to cope when a child is born with albinism.

How self-harm came to take more lives than war, murder and natural disasters combined.

“In the past, when he has spoken, he has sometimes replied to questions by protesting that he is boring. Maybe he believes that this is the case, or just believes there is no point in allowing himself to seem interesting in the way interviewers usually want people to be. Still, he has told himself that tonight he will be truthful. He’s feeling calmer these days. He has not had one of these conversations for a while, and he intends it to be a long time before he has another.”

The cheerleader who sued the Raiders for failure to pay minimum wage.

Following a lobster from sea to table.

One rabbi’s tactics against husbands who refuse to divorce their wives.

On the universal drive to grow and reproduce.

A trip to the U.S. Open of ping-pong.

Fame, fashion, and a trip to the zoo.

An essay about phone dials and a response to the end of blogging.

On Teller, his magic, and his response to a stolen trick.

A trip to a grave in Damascus as shelling started in Homs.

A trip to Hempfest with cannabis breeder DJ Short.

Brazil’s restless youth in the lead-up to the World Cup.

A move to Los Angeles and a foray into the bourgeoisie.

After being extinct for 70 million years, the coelacanth came back to life.

On recommitting to the Knicks after “a decade of dysfunction and delusion.”

The bitter rivalry within the aerospace industry to produce unmanned combat aircrafts.

On digital animators’ quest to capture the endlessly complex human face.

Behind a financial fraud lay a secret plan to create a “mothership for con artists worldwide”:

Gamboa's tale involves secret ore deposits, hidden stocks of Soviet nuclear armaments, the Queen Mary ocean liner, portions of Antarctica, a new version of the Bible, allegations of fake deaths and miraculous resurrections, and a collection of some of the most colorful aliases ever to grace America's criminal and civil case dockets. (According to court documents, Korem also answers to the names Tzemach Ben David Netzer Korem and Branch Vinedresser.)

A clinical test is underway to evaluate MDMA—ecstasy—as a treatment for PTSD.

On the FBI’s program to infiltrate Muslim communities in America.