The birthing of a conspiracy theory that the record holder for oldest person, Jeanne Calment, was actually her daughter Yvonne, who had “stolen her deceased mother’s identity to avoid paying inheritance taxes,”

“The key differentiator of Super-Aggregators is that they have three-sided markets: users, content providers (which may include users!), and advertisers. Both content providers and advertisers want the user’s attention, and the latter are willing to pay for it.”

After sitting alone in a forest and not moving for 24 hours, the author reflects on time, mortality, and turning 40.

The grocer started communicating with Chinese counterparts in January and was running tabletop simulations a few weeks later. (But nothing prepared it for the rush on toilet paper.)

The phrase ‘adult beginner’ can sound patronising. It implies you are learning something you should have mastered as a child. But learning is not just for the young.

For years, Hou was the only woman who stood a chance against the very best. But she had her own ambitions.

A study in building spaceships.

A woman reels in the wake of her mother’s absence.

In 1965, Wheat was sentenced to death for armed robbery and murder. When his sentence was commuted, he decided to devote the rest of his life to helping people.

I played a father for a 12-year-old with a single mother. The girl was bullied because she didn’t have a dad, so the mother rented me. I’ve acted as the girl’s father ever since. I am the only real father that she knows.

Omar Khadr was 15 when he was captured in Afghanistan in 2002. He was held in Guantanamo for years without charges. He was tortured. And earlier this month, after nearly 13 years behind bars, he was released on bail.

Teo Brank found a lucrative side hustle arranging escorts for sex parties. But when his business soured, he turned to extortion.

She longed for black people in America not to be forever refugees—confined by borders that they did not create and by a penal system that killed them before they died.

For five decades, as the children at Camp Shane shed pounds, made friends, and found romance, a fierce succession drama was playing out.

Fossils have become a hot new asset class. Paleontologists aren’t thrilled, but for Clayton Phipps and his peers, it’s a living.

On CEO Reed Hastings and the future of Netflix.

On the blurry ethical lines in the part-time Texas state legislature, where politicians and CEO’s are one and the same.

The misidentification of a Boston Marathon bomber and the future of breaking news.

A trip to Nashville to sample the city’s signature dish and try to understand why we love food that hurts.

A veteran with PTSD takes on the fighter jets that fly above his sanctuary on the Olympic Peninsula.

How a series of lies and an incompetent lawyer led to a Florida woman’s wrongful conviction.

The real story of a fabricator.

How do you start closing the gap between rich and poor? Convince the rich to do it themselves.

Private planes, caviar lunches and Little League.