"There Is Going to Be a Destruction ... the Obliteration of a Person"
A wife’s notes on her husband’s last months.
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A wife’s notes on her husband’s last months.
Marion Coutts The Guardian Jun 2014 15min Permalink
Tom Monaghan started Domino’s. Mike Ilitch started Little Caesers. Both became billionaires, both live in Detroit, both are now over 75. They’ve made very different decisions about how to spend their fortunes.
Bryan Gruley Businessweek Jul 2014 10min Permalink
Bruce Cawsey Waite has no home, no office, and wears a dead man’s suit.
Lisa Taddeo The New York Observer Oct 2012 Permalink
On the battle between Google, Apple, Uber, and Tesla to own the driverless car market, which could be worth more than $30 billion a year.
Adrienne LaFrance The Atlantic Dec 2015 20min Permalink
The bribery scandal, involving tests given for coveted government jobs and medical school admissions, began implicating high-ranking officials. Then people started turning up dead.
Aman Sethi The Guardian Dec 2015 25min Permalink
How cops are using nuisance abatement actions to put New Yorkers on the streets.
Sarah Ryley ProPublica, New York Daily News Feb 2016 25min Permalink
The life that he has created almost from scratch over the last two years has been defined at least as much by what Tyson wants to avoid — old haunts, old habits, old temptations and old hangers-on — as by what he wants to embrace.
Daphne Merkin New York Times Magazine Mar 2011 10min Permalink
A behind-the-scenes look at a U.S. attack against civilians near Khod: “the high-tech wizardry would fail in its most elemental purpose: to tell the difference between friend and foe.”
David S. Cloud The Los Angeles Times Apr 2011 10min Permalink
You’re not supposed to just vanish at Vortex Spring. Dive too deep and you might not make it back to the surface, but a search party will eventually find your body. Nobody has found Ben McDaniel yet.
Ben Montgomery The St. Petersburg Times Apr 2011 15min Permalink
What if soldiers from ‘Kill Team’ (and others who have murdered innocent civilians in Afghanistan and Iraq) aren’t simply the “few bad apples” that military writes them off as?
Luke Mogelson New York Times Magazine Apr 2011 1h15min Permalink
Irving Kahn is about to celebrate his 106th birthday. He still goes to work every day. Scientists are studying him and several hundred other Ashkenazim to find out what keeps them going. And going. And going.
Jesse Green New York Nov 2011 25min Permalink
An American mystery writer and an Italian journalist join forces to identify a serial killer that targeted couples having sex in cars in the rolling hills above Florence.
Douglas Preston The Atlantic Jul 2006 Permalink
“Over the past century, coaches have used intuition and discipline to vastly improve athletic performance. Now scientists are taking the last step, helping athletes approach perfection.”
Mark McClusky Wired Jun 2012 15min Permalink
The multiple stories behind an iconic college football photo.
Gary Smith Sports Illustrated Jul 1999 20min Permalink
An art museum in Tasmania is saving the local economy. It also offers an “eternity membership” which, for $75,000, will see your ashes displayed there once you’ve gone.
Most people think they’d be thrilled to have their memoir snapped up for a movie. The author had a different, more troubled experience.
Stephen Elliott Vulture Apr 2015 Permalink
For nearly a decade, Laura Albert lived a double life as troubled teen turned cult writer J.T. Leroy, writing books, chatting constantly with celebrities, and convincing another woman to appear as J.T. Leroy in public.
Nancy Rommelmann LA Weekly Feb 2008 35min Permalink
Our debt, conscious or unconscious, to what has come before, and what it can tell us about copyright, the public domain, and the complicated relationship between creators and consumers.
Jonathan Lethem Harper's Feb 2007 Permalink
Would you rather have one marshmallow now or two in a few minutes? How a kid’s answer to that question can predict his or her life trajectory.
Jonah Lehrer New Yorker May 2009 20min Permalink
The criminologist/lawyer who created Perry Mason unravels the Boston Strangler case, in which eleven women were murdered by an assailant they willingly let into their homes.
Erle Stanley Gardner The Atlantic May 1964 25min Permalink
Purdue Pharma’s marketing materials say OxyContin works for 12 hours. It doesn’t. And this problem, long-denied by the drugmaker, is what makes it highly addictive.
Harriet Ryan, Lisa Girion, Scott Glover Los Angeles Times May 2016 25min Permalink
Premier Cru’s “pre-arrival” cases were deeply discounted. When too many failed to arrive, a multi-decade wine Ponzi-scheme fell apart.
Michael Steinberger Bloomberg Businessweek Aug 2016 15min Permalink
He was a Baptist who became a Muslim, a Marine who became a bank robber, a criminal who became an informant, and a student who became an imam. But was Marcus Robertson connected to the deadliest mass shooting in American history?
David Gauvey Herbert The Atavist Magazine Dec 2016 1h Permalink
Young people who leave strict Jewish communities face a bewildering, lonely new world. One group helps them navigate it.
Taffy Brodesser-Akner New York Times Magazine Mar 2017 20min Permalink
Some players, from the start, were up front about admitting it was a hoax. Others insisted, to their graves, that the story was true, that the Lutz family had been haunted by something. It’s just that the something may not have been paranormal at all.
Michelle Dean Topic Oct 2017 15min Permalink