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In eight malls spread across three continents, kids get to try out grown-up jobs in corporate-sponsored theme parks. Welcome to KidZania—coming soon to the U.S.
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In eight malls spread across three continents, kids get to try out grown-up jobs in corporate-sponsored theme parks. Welcome to KidZania—coming soon to the U.S.
Mike Deri Smith The Morning News Apr 2011 15min Permalink
The Bachelor’s host, Chris Harrison, is now a divorced bachelor himself. It turns out coaching single men is a lot easier than being one.
Taffy Brodesser-Akner GQ Jan 2015 20min Permalink
In March 1971, John and Bonnie Raines broke into an FBI office, stealing documents that revealed that the government was spying on its own citizens. Today, they’re hailed as heroes. Is this what the future holds for Edward Snowden?
Steve Volk Philadelphia Magazine Jan 2015 20min Permalink
Bill Bradley was a Rhodes scholar, a three-term U.S. Senator and a presidential candidate. But before all that, he was the best college basketball player in the country.
John McPhee New Yorker Jan 1965 1h5min Permalink
Harsh sentences have given us an aging prison population, and all the medical problems that come with age are beginning to choke the system.
Sari Horwitz Washington Post May 2015 Permalink
A statistics-based argument that drug pricing, not drug use or law enformencement, is the only way to predict swings in violent crime rates.
Llewellyn Hinkes-Jones The Atlantic Nov 2011 10min Permalink
Dikembe Mutombo, humanitarian and former NBA center, and oil executive Kase Lawal arrange a ill-fated deal to buy $30 million in gold in Kenya.
Armin Rosen The Atlantic Mar 2012 20min Permalink
Ted Nelson's Xanadu project began in 1960 and was supposed to be the universal, democratic hypertext library that would help human life evolve into an entirely new form. It didn't go that way.
Update: The software was finally, quietly released in April.
An interview with Michael Maren, who spent nearly twenty years working in Africa as an aid worker and then a journalist, on why NGOs and “feed an African child” charities do more harm than good.
Michael Maren, Stephen Hubbell Might Magazine Mar 1997 20min Permalink
The cop says she nabbed an online sexual predator. He says he was just willing to chat whatever it took to get laid in real life. Their story, from both perspectives.
Mark Bowden Vanity Fair Dec 2009 35min Permalink
First her best friend was murdered. Then her mother fell from a balcony. And finally a man she had just met was found dead in her house.
Jeannette Cooperman St. Louis Magazine Jan 2017 50min Permalink
The material powers solar panels and microchips. In Alabama, two thieves cashed in.
Brendan Koerner Wired Sep 2017 20min Permalink
Mark Karpelès ran the largest Bitcoin exchange in the world until a heist made it insolvent, ultimately landing him in solitary confinement in Japanese prison.
Jen Wieczner Fortune Apr 2018 Permalink
More Americans rely on Puerto Rico’s grid than on any other public electric utility. How one renegade plant worker led them through the shadows.
Daniel Alarcón Wired Aug 2018 20min Permalink
Pete Forde was a good landlord and a great friend, or so his tenants thought. Then they discovered he was filming them in their most private moments.
Katherine Laidlaw Toronto Life Oct 2018 25min Permalink
Hitman-for-hire darknet sites are all scams. But some people turn up dead nonetheless.
Gian Volpicelli Wired UK Dec 2018 30min Permalink
Women’s recruitment into elite commandos, formed in response to post-9/11 terrorism, was not driven by a desire for diversity in the workplace, but by the need to conduct raids and arrest militants without alienating local communities.
Nazish Brohi Guernica Dec 2018 20min Permalink
At age 17, Bonnie Richardson won the Texas state track team championship all by herself. Then she did it again.
Gary Smith Sports Illustrated Sep 2009 25min Permalink
Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico’s “monkey island.” The surviving primates could help scientists learn about the psychological response to traumatizing events.
Luke Dittrich New York Times Magazine May 2019 30min Permalink
The Permian Basin is booming with oil. But at what cost to West Texans? Though some will reap serious profits, the region’s dealing with skyrocketing rents, overcrowded schools, and potholes as big as VW Beetles.
Christian Wallace Texas Monthly Jun 2019 25min Permalink
If researchers can figure out how pigeons and rats evolve to thrive in hostile city habitats, it could help other beasts—including us—adapt to climate change.
Brendan I. Koerner Wired Sep 2019 25min Permalink
On losing a mother and a marriage.
Cheryl Strayed The Sun Magazine Sep 2002 30min Permalink
Faith Hope Consolo had the entire press fooled, including us. Then a message came in.
Julie Satow New York Times Jan 2020 15min Permalink
An encounter with Emerson’s essays.
Jenny Odell The Paris Review Jan 2020 15min Permalink
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.)
Dan Solomon, Paula Forbes Texas Monthly Mar 2020 20min Permalink