New Articles — November 15th, 2022
- an artist of our social age Sierra Bellows
- inside the underground market for fake amazon reviews Simon Hill
- the artwork that took 30 years and 200 acres to create Jay Cheshes
- 'how many women were abused to make that tesla?' Stephen Rodrick
- ghouls, demon slayers and socially anxious students: how manga conquered the world Alison Flood
- the strange endurance of consuming human blood for our health Mark Hay
- how the wright brothers took flight Carlyn Kranking
- the veterinary magic of the middle ages John Last
- how truffles took root around the world Frederico Kukso
- inside the weirdly competitive industry of robots writing letters in human handwriting Elissaveta M. Brandon
- why horror is so damned fun Samir S. Patel
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- the women who built grunge Lisa Whittington-Hill
- the man who built his own cathedral Matthew Bremner
- why fangirls scream Kaitlyn Tiffany
- disrupting the funeral — are millenials killing the death industry? Kim Velsey
- i saved an abused, broken horse. Or did she save me? Courtney Maum
- werner herzog has never liked introspection (interview) Michael LaPointe
- meet the mummies you’ve never heard of Emma Lira
- simpsons forever — the simpsons’ second life M.H. Miller
- the aldi effect: how one discount supermarket transformed the way britain shops Xan Rice
- the puzzle that will outlast the world A.J. Jacobs
- ai’s first philosopher Sebastian Sunday Grève
- the last naturalist Parker Bauer
- “that’s it? it’s over? I was 30. what a brutal business”: pop stars on life after the spotlight moves on Nick Duerden
- realizing my grandfather’s sailing dreams Jessica Wilde
- a day in the life of (almost) every vending machine in the world Tom Lamont
- yours for $200m: why warhol is now worth more than picasso Jonathan Jones
- one woman’s quest to create truly japanese cheese Joan Bailey
- ‘i feel my mother in every peat and leaf’: how gardening helped me through grief Lulah Ellender
- how a corporate spy swiped plans for DuPont’s billion-dollar color formula Del Quentin Wilber
- the mysterious man who built (and then lost) little tokyo Robert Simonson
- spooky britain: how ghosts became a national obsession Emine Saner
- the photographer with 60,000 undeveloped images of rock history “waiting to come back to life” Jim Farber
- revamping the vamp: the woman behind the legend of mata hari Julie Wheelwright
- music, memory and my dad: how songs define and shape us Jude Rogers
- the legend of the music tree Ellen Ruppel Shell
- a botanical mystery solved, after 146 years Gemma Tarlach
- the editor who moves theory into the mainstream Jennifer Wilson
- online shopping in the middle of the ocean Tiare Tuuhia
- kafka the hypchondriac Will Rees
- the women behind the first black music magazine Ashawnta Jackson
- the vietnamese secret agent who spied for three different countries Richard Collett
- on the covert role of knitting during the french revolution and world war II Loretta Napoleoni
- the beatle who got away Ted Widmer
- we can’t all be changi: here’s what it takes to build an airport Stefanie Waldek
- i saw the death industry up close — it changed my life Hayley Campbell
- the japanes city where food is steamed in hell Florentyn Leow
- the woman who taught the world to fly April White
- women are creating a new culture for astronomy Ann Finkbeiner
- when new york city was a wiretapper’s dream Brian Hochman
- why is scotland apologizing now for witch trials 300 years ago? Sarah Durn
- inside the tow truck mafia: how organized crime took over canada’s towing industry Rob Stumpf
- japan’s humble birthplace of soy sauce Tom Schiller
- a f1 team lost a $250,000 diamond at the monaco gp, and it’s still missing today Lewin Day
- the queen of crime-solving Imogen West-Knights
- a guide to “The Godfather” filming locations in new york city Jennifer Nalewicki
- why community matters so much — and how to find yours Allie Volpe
- meet the japanese man paid to do nothing Michelle Ye Hee Lee, Julia Mio Inuma
- the myth of agent 355, the woman spy who supposedly helped win the revolutionary war Bill Bleyer
- “i’m just surprised i still have a career”: chloë sevigny on hipsters, hollywood, fame and family Emine Saner
- to protect her fine china, josephine cochran set out to invent a better dishwashing machine Jocelyn Ram, Eric Atkisson
- ‘female husbands’: the secret live of 18th-century transgender pioneers Jen Manion
- our crazy farm subsidies, explained Amelia Urry
- bill murray: “we are afraid to die and afraid to kill” Kevin E G Perry
- annie londonerry, who traveled the world by bicycle in 1894 Bruce Weber
- “It’s a mess”: how crypto mining went from boom to bust in kazakhstan Naubet Bisenov, Meaghan Tobin
- the wartime spies who used knitting as an espionage tool Natalie Zarrelli
- the danger of making the internet safe for kids Sara Morrison
- how putin’s oligarchs bought london Patrick Radden Keefe
- the love story that upended the texas prison system Ethan Watters
- the secrets of the world’s greatest freediver Daniel Riley
- the LA musician who helped design a microphone for mars Eric Adams
- humans evolved to play music David George Haskell
- delivery apps’ obsession with star ratings is ruining lives Max Kim
- how canada accidentally helped crack computer translation Christine Mitchell
- in sri lanka, organic farming went catastrophically wrong Ted Nordhaus, Saloni Shah
- nothing matters: how the invention of zero helped create modern mathematics Ittay Weiss
- future evolution: from looks to brains and personality, how will humans change in the next 10,000 years? Nicholas R. Longrich
- postwar modern: new art in britain 1945-65 review — a magnificent history lesson Laura Cumming
- how one man’s love of isolation put an italian ghost town on the map Angela Giuffrida
- the most enduring fitness scam in history Ian Douglass
- the internet is not as new as you think Justin E. H. Smith
- a 105-year old tattoo artist is teaching girls to ink for independence Lynzy Billing
- the medieval influencer who convinced the world to drink tea — not eat it Miranda Brown
- the man who put out fires with music Ted Gioia
- where are all the robotaxis we were promised? well... Rob Stumpf
- how a YouTube channel is transforming a remote village in bangladesh Nilesh Christpher, Faisal Mahmud
- how a lavish 1930s theater was reborn as an acoustical paradise Elissaveta M. Brandon
- hustle and hype: the truth about the influencer economy Symeon Brown
- the high cost of ikea furniture Laura Marsh, Alex Pareene, Alexander Sammon
- the doctor who was told her illness was ‘all in her head’ — and is transforming the treatment of her rare genetic condition Emine Saner
- inside pornhub Nathan Munn
- “the minions do the actual writing”: the ugly truth of how movie scores are made Mark Rozzo
- how heinz uses a fake number to keep its brand timeless Nathaniel Meyersohn
- online shopping is reshaping real-world cities Michael Waters
- the nocturnals — ultra-introverts nocturnal lives Faith Hill
- how a saudi woman’s iPhone revealed hacking around the world Joel Schectman, Christopher Bing
- the fierce triumph of loneliness Helena Fitzgerald
- how einstein arrived at his theory of general relativity Michael Dine
- the legacy of daniel craig’s james bond Keith Phipps
- the day the good internet died Katie Baker
- african script sheds light on evolution of writing Cody Cottier
- my family lost our farm during japanese incarceration. i went searching for what remains. Ruth Chizuko Murai
- what the history of AI tells us about its future Clive Thompson
- why hollywood can’t quit guns Shirley Li
- david hockney rediscovers painting Françoise Mouly
- the case of the creepy algorithm that ‘predicted’ teen pregnancy Diego Jemio, Alexa Hagerty, Florencia Aranda
- a new story for stonehenge Simon Akam
- confessions of a bitcoin widow: how a dream life turned into a nightmare Jennifer Robertson, Stephen Kimber
- zoë kravitz has stopped reading the comments Jessica Herndon
- welcome to the bread lab Susannah Skiver Barton
- their bionic eyes are now obsolete and unsupported Eliza Strickland, Mark Harris
- the power of water Giulio Boccaletti
- a hoe of a universe: survivign purity culture and white christianity Charmee Taylor
- here’s what actually happens to all your online shopping returns Meghan Tobin, Wency Chen, Abubakar Idris
- what should farmers grow in the desert? Stephen Robert Miller
- sports betting is ruining more than your bank account Adam Chandler
- the unbearable horniness of getting sober Danielle Tcholakian
- a robot bought my seven-year-old car for more than i paid brand-new Sean Hollister
- a love letter to watches Jack Forster
- maybe she had so much money she just lost track of it — how anna delvey tricked new york Jessica Pressler
- 100 years ago, a quantum experiment explained why we don’t fall through our chairs Davide Castelvecchi
- are handbags the new stocks? Julia Gall
- the internet turned “money” into a hobby Rebecca Jennings
- how did the bored ape yacht club get so popular? Kate Knibbs
- an ancient language has defied translation for 100 years. can AI crack the code? Alizeh Kohari
- how china captured hollywood Erich Schwartzel
- alcoholism and me: ‘i was an addicted doctor, the worst kind of patient’ Carl Erik Fisher
- the brutal reason some primates are born a weird color Max G. Levy
- why trucking can’t deliver the goods Harold Meyerson
- how to restore a savanna Francis E Putz
- the untold story of stripe, the secretive $20bn startup driving apple, amazon, and facebook Stephen Armstrong
- beware the fomo bullies of technology Charlie Warzel
- bacteria are eating the titanic Marisa Sloan
- how a 400-year-old cheese got its groove back Richard Collett
- how campbell soup turned new jersey into a tomato-growing state Jeff Quattrone
- how a group of former colombian guerilla fighters became citizen scientists Addison Nugent
- this woman escaped slavery by hiding in plain sight — disguised as a white man Tucker C. Toole
- inside the booming business of cricket catching Halima Athumani
- american spy agencies are struggling in the age of data Amy B. Zegart
- the sopranos of berlin: a brutal crime family and a billion dollar jewel heist Joshua Hammer
- the hidden life of a lorry driver: long hours, fear of robberies — and living for the weekend Sirin Kale
- who decides what goes on a map? Abby Levene
- following the mysterious trail of europe’s last wild lions Katarina Zimmer
- inside the $128 million heist that shocked the world — and the police chase that followed Ivana Kottasová
- we almost forgot about the moon trees Marina Koren
- the last internet dealers of rural mexico Lorena Ríos
- how e ink developed full-color e-paper Edzer Huitema
- what it’s like to live in a space the size of a closet Paulette Perhach
- teen motherhood did not ruin me Rebecca Fontenot
- the radical woman behind “Goodnight Moon” Anna Holmes
- he spent 25 years infiltrating nazis, the klan, and biker gangs Paul Solotaroff
- the surprising science of measuring snowfall Bill Syrett
- why do we remember what we remember? Brian Resnick
- the photographer who studied her family for three decades Ravi Ghosh
- ‘i grew up in care alone — why did no-one tell me i had siblings?’ Ashley John-Baptiste
- the forgotten women who ruled the medieval middle east Sarah Durn
- one of the beverage world’s favorite plants is named for the slave who discovered its promise Uwagbale Edward-Ekpu
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i wanted to try cocaine, but jimi was against it
: janis ian on her tough, starlit life in music Sarfraz Manzoor - matanzas: the rebirth of cuba’s abandoned cultural hub Brendan Sainsbury
- how do you mourn a 250-year-old-giant? Margaret Renkl
- more and more musicians are releasing their own music: here’s why Mark Savage
- the gold rush returns to california Becki Robins
- the prisoner who revolutionized language with a teacup Jing Tsu
- who’s afraid of crypto-salaries? Sultan Quadri
- can we really be friends with an octopus? Ferris Jabr
- what’s the point of digital clothes? Terry Nquyen
- when it comes to healthcare, AI has a long way to go Tom Simonite
- this is what peak car looks like Keith Naughton, David Welch
- are you sure you know what a photograph is? Rashed Haq
- last sane man on wall street Andrew Rice
- why is 18 the age of adulthood if the brain can take 30 years to mature? Stephen Johnson
- lost in geneva: a complete newbie wander the capitol of watchmaking Sarah Miller
- 13,000 pound at 118 miles per hour. it was the the deadliest wreck in years. and the man behind it was one of the FBI’s most notorious informant. Ben Ryder Howe
- a brief history of (modern) time Ian P. Beacock
- the undoing of joss whedon Lila Shapiro
- how AI conquered poker Keith Romer
- where are they now: flying car concepts from just the last decade Jason Tochinsky
- “everything is content”: inside the daily grind of india’s biggest influencer families Yashraj Sharma
- artists across asia dream of becoming digital sticker millionaires Andrew Deck
- how the refrigerator became an agent of climate catastrophe David Owen
- is space pixelated? the quest for quantum gravity Whitney Clavin
- the chocolate route Irene Fattacciu
- a quick history of digital communication before the internet Zack Bloom
- the computer built to last 50 years Ploum
- a former CIA case officer reveals the surprising connection between watches and espionage Former undercover operative for the CIA
- how music is used to heal the sick in appalachia Taylor Sisk
- Do NFTs matter for classical music? Felix Linsmeier
- how the internet ruined the birth story Sarah Stoller
- a hallucinogenic three changed how humans used drugs Sarah Sloat
- noises off: the battle to save our quite places Alex Moshakis
- how weekly bike rides with a group of supportive women showed me a route to joy Tanya Frank
- i grew up in a crematorium—we learned not to look too alive in front of the mourners Jo Browning Wroe
- ‘in out teens, we dreamed of making peace between israel and palestinians. then my friend was shot.’ Roy Cohen
- laughter in the time of cholera Vlad Solomon
- i went through conversion therapy at 21. Here’s how it affected me. Andy Taylor
- how disruption happens David Porter
- nine great women writers you’ve never heard of Dominique Sisley
- brazil’s favela tech boom: young people from poor neighborhoods set out to conquer the digital world Nicola Abé
- the history of poop is really the history of technology Harold McGee
- the secret life of an automotive spy photographer Kristin V. Shaw
- the world‘s most popular evs aren’t cars, trucks, or motorcycles Lawrence Ulrich
- the decade the internet lost its joy Clio Chang
- instagram is broken. it also broke us. Rebecca Jennings
- AI is sending people to jail—and getting it wrong Karen Hao
- the web began dying in 2014, here’s how André Staltz
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zadie smith on fighting the algorithm:
if you are under 30, and you are able to think for yourself right now, ‘god bless you’
Deborah Dundas - how ‘Blade Runner’ and sci-fi made everything dystopian Manu Saadia
- i accidentally uncovered a nationwide scam on airbnb Allie Conti
- parenting’s new frontier: what happens when your 11-year-old says no to a smarthphone? Virgina Heffernan
- the hidden costs of automated thinking Jonathan Zittrain
- was the automotive era a terrible mistake? Nathan Heller
- the ethics of hiding your data from the machines Molly Wood
- three years of misery inside google, the happiest company in tech Nitasha Tiku
- the fight for the future of youtube Neima Jahromi
- i’m a data scientist who is skeptical about data Andrea Jones-Rooy
- my grandfather’s secret d-day journal Barry Svrluga
- the instagram aesthetic is over Taylor Lorenz
- a history of the influencer, from shakespeare to instagram Laurence Scott
- oliver sacks: the healing power of gardens Oliver Sacks
- 17 indie artists on their oddest odd jobs that pay the bills when music doesn’t Larry Fitzmaurice
- what it’s like to grow up with more money than you’ll ever spend Sarah McVeigh
- the day the dinosaurs died Douglas Preston
- how two years of instagram stories has altered the way we love, act and play Olivia Ovenden
- do animals have feelings? Ross Andersen
- how an olympic hopeful robbed 26 banks on his banks Steven Leckart
- welcome to the bold and blocky instagram era of book covers Margot Boyer-Dry
- why are young people pretending to love work? Erin Griffith
- how a vermont social network became a model for online communities Andrew Liptak
- how much of the internet is fake? turns out, a lot of it, actually. Max Read
- everything is for sale now. even us.
- inside the pricey war to influence your instagram feed Paris Martineau
- the spookiest music relies on a little ditty monks to sing about apocalypse Gwynn Guilford
- the comforting fictions of dementia care Larissa MacFarquhar
- how the finnish survive without small talk Laura Studarus
- why text messages are limited to 160 characters Mark Milian
- the untold story of NotPetya, the most devastating cyberattack in history Andy Greenberg
- broken time—“Nardis” and the curious history of a jazz obsession Steve Silberman
- how an ex-cop rigged mcdonals’s monopoly game and stole millions Jeff Maysh
- what can depersonalisation disorder say about the self? Anna Ciaunica, Jane Chartlon
- why living in a poor neighborhood can change your biology Andrew Curry
- how mr. rogers became everyone’s neighbor Sarah Larson
- a japanes photographers’s view of life in his family’s one-room home Moeko Fujii
- MIT fed an AI data from reddit, and now it only thinks about murder Bijan Stephen
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i grew up in total ruins
: irmin schmidt of can on LSD mourning and musical adventures Alexis Petridis - two theories on how k-pop made it to no.1 in america Amanda Petrusich
- meet clairo, the girl who became a pop star from her bedroom Elliot Sang
- what dating is like when you live in the countryside Francisco Garcia
- the gleeful abandon of youthful curiosity Amanda Baker
- why some countries come together while others fall apart Andreas Wimmer
- philip roth’s other legacy: a revolution in cover design Katharine Schwab
- philip roth, towering novelist who explored lust, jewish life and america, dies at 85 Charles McGrath
- is fish the food of love, and babies? Nicholas Bakalar
- stanley kubrick had a secret life as a teenage street photographer Katharine Schwab
- mumbling isn’t a sign of laziness—it’s a clever data-compression trick Julie Sedivy
- the womand who gave the macintosh a smile Alexandra Lange
- stephen hawking dies at 76; his mind roamed the cosmos
- the internet is enabling a new kind of poorly paid hell Alana Semuels
- “Dawson‘s Creek” is an underrated archive of 90s fashion Ilana Kaplan
- using pop culture to practice productive disagreement Amanda Baker
- we should look closely at what adam smith actually believed Paul Sagar
- the gambler who cracked the horse-racing code Kit Chellel
- spaniard raised - wolves disappointed with human life Silvia R. Pontevedra
- “i was a teacher for 17 years, but i couldn’t read or write” Sarah McDermott
- a stanford psychologist on the art of avoiding assholes Sean Illing
- what about “The Breakfast Club” ? Molly Ringwald
- questlove wants you to start listening—i mean really listening—again Adam Grant
- why in china and japan a copy is just as good as an original Byung-Chul Han
- in sweden‘s preschools, boys learn to dance and girls learn to yell Ellen Barry
- how exercise in old age prevents the immune system from declining Fergus Walsh
- what ever happened to brendan fraser? Zach Baron
- god save CÉLINE: we need hedi slimane now more than ever Douglas Brundage
- the most hated poet in portland Laura Yan
- what happens if china makes first contact Ross Andersen
- how the cult modernist painter florine stettheimer sabotaged her own art market Sarah Cascone
- is there something odd about being single? Helen Betya Rubinstein
- how mark twain tried to get rich quick—again and again Dan Piepenbring
- your bones live on without you Chip Colwell
- when scientsts discovered neutron stars colliding, how did artists know what to draw? Neel V. Patel
- joan miró: i work like a gardener Maya P. Lim
- this company’s robots are making everything—and reshaping the world Joshua Hunt
- the secrets of sleep Jerome Groopman
- i'm so sorry my house isn't clean enough to effectively shame you Lily Osler
- what happened when i made my students turn off their phones Joelle Renstrom
- one person’s history of twitter, from beginning to end Mike Monteiro
- why facts don’t change our minds Elizabeth Kolbert
- what facebook did to american democracy Alexis C. Madrigal
- the lost worlds of wim wenders’s polaroids Richard Brody
- a paris boudoir where everything’s meant to be touched
- why big cities thrive, and smaller ones are being left behind
- when two men fall in love on the ballet stage, and why it matters Gia Kourlas
- the rock test: a hack for men who don’t want to be accused of sexual harassment Anne Victoria Clark
- russia’s house of shadows Joshua Yaffa
- the secret lives of leonard da vinci Claudia Roth Pierpont
- the reclusive life: what I learned about solitude from my time with hermits Paul Willis
- ‘western society is chronically sleep deprived’: the importance of the body’s clock Hannah Devlin
- is good taste teachable Jacoba Urist
- the instagram poet outselling homer ten to one Molly Fischer
- why facebook is the junk food of socializing Jim Davies
- a field farmed only - drones Nicola Twilley
- the lessons of leonardo: how to be a creative genius Walter Isaacson
- what it’s like to hear the same piece of music for 19 hours Joshua Barone
- when it’s good to be antisocial Silvia Golumbeanu
- ‘Sleep should be prescribed’: what those late nights out could be costing you Rachel Cooke
- what it was like writing jokes for president obama Jesse David Fox
- there never was a real tulip fever Lorraine Boissoneault
- how tv became art Joshua Rothman, Erin Overbey
- my gucci addiction Buzz Bissinger
- fear and loathing on social media Angela Watercutter
- the healing power of nature Rebecca Lawton
- instagram your leftovers: history depends on it Laura Shapiro
- why grades are not paramount to achievement Ashley Lamb-Sinclair
- the end of economics Matt Seybold
- the uninhabitable earth David Wallace-Wells
- how to do nothing Jenny Odell
- the ‘busy’ trap Tim Kreider
- the five universal laws of human stupidity Corinne Purtill
- how to hack an election Jordan Robertson, Michael Riley, Andrew Willis
- why a strong economy needs a strong press Luigi Zingales
- chris rock in a hard place: on infidelity, his new tour and starting over Stephen Rodrick
- is matter conscious? Hedda Hassel Mørch
- darwin was a slacker and you should be too Alex Soojung-Kim Pang
- not leadership material? good. the world needs followers.
- grace paley, the saint of seeing George Saunders
- how europe became so rich Joel Mokyr
- how east and west think in profoundly different ways David Robson
- remembering lauren bacall Kahterine Cusumano, Brad Goldfarb
- machine money and people money—a conversation about universal income with john maynard keynes and paul buchheit Tim O'Reilly
- how twitter amplifies authoritarianism Jason Ditzian
- if you were an elephant... Charles Foster
- iceland knows how to stop teen substance abuse but the rest of the world isn’t listening Emma Young
- to obama with love, and hate, and desperation
- amartya sen: ‘referendums are like opinion polls. sometimes they’re very wrong’ Will Hutton
- how to be a good listener: the experts’ guide Moya Sarner
- the simple steel box that transformed global trade Tim Harford
- for the love of stuff Lee Randall
- temple of gloom—why is the second “Indiana Jones” movie so dark? Bryan Curtis
- trump, putin and the pipelines to nowhere Alex Steffen
- Don’t give up: older people can have creative breakthroughs Albert-László Barabási
- why china is dominating the solar industry John Fialka
- finding poetry in a note-taking app Patricia Lockwood
- a fist of permutations in lightning and wildflowers Alyssa Wong
- robert rauschenberg and the subversive language of junk Olivia Laing
- in the future, will farming be fully automated? Padraig Belton
- easy is the new difficult Kenneth Goldsmmith
- the $13 billion zipper wars Edwin Jiang
- pride and pain in trump country:‘we all grew up poor, but we had a community’ Chris Arnade
- why trump voters are not “complete idiots” Chris Arnade
- loved to death: how instagram is destroying our natural wonders Molly McHugh
- negative emotions are key to well-being Tori Rodriguez
- dalai lama: behind our anxiety, the fear of being unneeded
- aboriginal women artists and their vision of infinity Bansie Vasvani
- our parents discovered leisure. we killed it. Stephanie Buck
- why the industrial revolution didn’t happen in china Ana Swanson
- want to ‘train your brain’? forget apps, learn a musical instrument Mo Costandi
- the writer who was too strong to live Dave McKenna
- in the now—where karl lagerfeld lives John Colapinto
- playing chicken with the art world Hilarie M. Sheets
- i’m not an asshole. i’m an introvert Nate Dern
- mental illness is not a horror show Andrew Solomon
- life along a poisoned river Jonathan Blitzer
- how autism shaped the modern conversation Alex Riley
- the greatest role of bill murray’s life has been playing bill murray Geoff Edgers
- chuck berry: from enduring jim crow to a comeback album at age 90 Mark Guarino
- melissa broder on the difference between poetry and twitter Melissa Broder, Brandon Stosuy
- björk’s virtual world Eliza Williams
- joe hill calls bullshit on the crazy artist cliché Hayley Campbell
- jimmy wong saves the internet Dave Pell
- a philosophy of walking: thoreau, nietzsche and kant on walking
- every british swear word has been officially ranked in order of offensiveness Jessica Brown
- using math to repair a 650-year-old masterpiece Ingrid Daubechies
- fran lebowitz doesn’t have a cell phone, but knows everything that happens on social media anyway Stephanie Eckardt
- 25 famous women on being alone Julie Ma
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marilyn:
i sat in a room for 20 years, taking crack and watching the alien films
Alexis Petridis - my son, the prince of fashion Michael Chabon
- communities vs. networks: to which do you belong? Brett McKay, Kate McKay
- bill murray’s dharma talk on what it’s like to be you Trent T. Gilliss
- the most powerful artwork i have ever seen Jerry Saltz
- did hitler have great designers? can good design be bad design? Tobias van Schneider
- sarah paulson’s career advice? don’t succeed so early Clay Skipper
- a decade lived in the dark Ed Caesar
- meet the parents who won’t let their children study literature Steven Pearlstein
- making sense of modern pornography Katrina Forrester
- where creativity comes from Tim Vernimmen
- i used to be a human being Andrew Sullivan
- why do famous people get paid $250,000 to give a speech? Alex Mayyasi
- where punk rock begins Amanda Petrusich
- mara wilson: how being a child actor is a lot like being an adult on twitter Lyz Lenz
- the timeless link between writing and running and why it makes for better work Ryan Holiday
- the lost art of custom-illustrating your favorite books Amy Stewart
- nick cave’s gift: a skeleton key that unlocks the source of songwriting Amanda Palmer
- cleaning after hours Adrienne Green
- a few thoughts on ‘creativity’. Mike Russell
- i ran 8.8 miles to school each day. barefoot. and it was worth it! James Kassaga Arinaitwe
- where germans make peace with their dead Burkhard Bilger
- how to tell a mother her child is dead
- the art of the car sales brochure Katharine Schwab
- a filmmaker trying to break free from instagram modernity Richard Brody
- are we really so modern? Adam Kirsch
- the accidental plagiarist in all of us
- like. flirt. ghost: a journey into the social media lives of teens Mary H.K. Choi
- david’s ankles: how imperfection could bring down the world’s most perfect statue
- machine money and people money Tim O'Reilly
- up yours! photographing tokyo’s punk scene Matthew Whitehouse
- how artists are responding to instagram’s no nudity policy Alice Newell-Hanson
- lonnie johnson: the father of the super soaker
- joseph goebbels’ 105-year-old secretary: ‘No one believes me now, but i knew nothing’ Kate Connolly
- why it pays to be grumpy and bad-tempered Zaria Gorvett
- martha stewart, queen of all internet Megan Garber
- how to be alone: an antidote to one of the central anxieties and greatest paradoxes of our time Maria Popova
- music producers explain how they created a hit
- estonia’s musical start-ups
- a ballet teacher changes the rules
- 80 percent of open-ocean fish make light Jennifer Frazer
- how punk helped kickstart a sexual revolution Paige Silveria
- the oppressive gospel of ‘minimalism’
- what babies know about physics and foreign languages
- werner herzog on the future of film school, critical connectivity, and pokémon go Emily Yoshida
- the internet is so bad it’s awesome Angelo Flaccavento
- clive james on regret, illness and how he plans to spend his final days binge-watching box sets Cole Moreton
- how the rich are hurting the museums the fund
- bjork’s new virtual reality exhibition is a tour of her perfectly weird mind Rosie Dalton
- how a wild bird leads people to honey Carolyn Kormann
- teach the prof how to teach Jennifer Frederick
- a house built for aging in place Diana Budds
- confessor. feminist. adult. what the hell happened to howard stern?
- there is no difference between computer art and human art Oliver Roeder
- you can change who you are William Berry
- why “what works?” is the wrong question: evaluating ideas not programs Chris Blattman
- how did denmark become a leader in the food waste revolution? Helen Russell
- the american who accidentally became a chinese movie star
- new york city ballet savors the city of light
- a 100-year-old japanese stationary store lets customers design the perfect, custom notebook Anne Quito
- the emails of natalie portman and jonathan safran foer
- this photographer is highlighting the strange beauty of human skulls Hayley Campbell
- berlin dinner parties that celebrate refugees and their food
- how technology disrupted the truth Katharine Viner
- solving all the wrong problems
- how a painter fell in love with photography David Rosenberg
- childless women to marketers: we buy things too
- we’re trying to do the “the wrong thing rigth” in schools Will Richardson
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- talking with your hands makes you learn things faster Drake Baer
- the people who craft world-class steinway pianos Jordan G. Teicher
- teaching traumatized kids James Redford, Karen Pritzker
- how girl power made us who we are today Stevie Mackenzie-Smith
- pablo neruda wrote me a poem Roa Lynn
- how to talk to fireflies
- how to tell if you are in a j.r.r. tolkien book Austin Gilkeson
- it’s an art gallery. no, a living room. o.k., both
- what it’s like to work at an ice cream factory Bourree Lam
- how an archive of the internet could change history
- meet YesJulz, snapchat royalty
- ‘child, i trust you’: on deadline with bill cunningham
- how to stay happy when the sky is falling in Oliver Burkeman
- to cite or to steal? when a scholarly project turns up in a gallery Kevin L. Ferguson
- how j.r.r tolkien found mordor on the western front
- artist who inspired kanye west ‘famous’ video ‘i was really speechless’
- ghost in the machine: snapchat isn’t mobile-first—it’s something else entirely Ben Basche
- would a work-free world be so bad? Ilana E. Strauss
- don’t ban photos of skinny models
- bill cunningham’s favorite muse Rachel Syme
- stoya said stop Lizzy Goodman
- the economic consequences of austerity Amartya Sen
- is great philosophy, - its nature, difficult and obscure? Keith Frankish
- bill cunningham, legendary time fashion photographer, dies at 87
- now i lay me down to sleep
- the world’s disappearing sand
- the science of why onions make us cry Maanvi Singh
- can tea help save the amazon? Brittany Patterson
- are solar panels just for rich people
- when poverty is profitable Gillian B. White
- snapchat: how brands reach millennials Steven Perlberg
- evan rachel wood’s new band is ’80s-infused magic for your ears Angie Piccirillo
- the right to be lazy Paul Lafargue
- the fathers of the internet revolution urge today’s software engineers to reinvent the web Tekla S. Perry
- market capitalism is broken: why adam smith would be outraged - modern finance John Battelle
- the price of transparency Lauren Sherman
- how canada became a greenhouse superpower Dan Charles
- instagram vs. basel: how social media is changing art Emily Barasch
- why we are no longer shocked - “ulysses” Louis Menand
- how insane work hours became a mark of american privilege Jeff Spross
- how frankenstein’s monster became human Francine Prose
- the chinese hackers in the back office
- this $95,000 watch uses the world’s blackest black
- the peculiarities of icelandic naming Katharina Hautpmann
- when the end of human civilization is your day job John H. Richardson
- the extreme couture of london’s underground club scene John Brownlee
- tiffany’s ‘old-world luxury’ fails to charm millenials
- uber and airbnb really are for the wealthy and well-educated Alison Griswold
- a legendary italian designer designed his own funeral, and he didn’t miss a detail Anne Quito
- how a mysterious ghost ship brought cosmic disco to cape verde Huw Oliver
- meet ‘deadshot mary’, a 1930s undercover cop superstar Hadley Meares
- want to save the world? try using cold hard cash. Nikita Lalwani, Sam Winter-Levy
- there’s no such thing as free will Stephen Cave
- the lost drawings of an artist who spent his life in a lunatic asylum
- how love works Alexandra Molotkow
- how technology hijacks people’s minds—from a magician and google’s design ethicist Tristan Harris
- which rock star will historians of the future remember?
- when economic growth doesn’t make countries happier Selin Kesebir
- the business of too much tv Josef Adalian, Maria Elena Fernandez
- how the west (and the rest) got rich Deidre N. McCloskey
- the cures of the ramones—40 years later: the feuds, failures and breakdowns of the band that launched punk rock Mikal Gilmore
- the inside story of when run-dmc met aerosmith and changed music forever Geoff Edgers
- how paper shaped civilization Reid Mitenbutler
- entertain yourself Sturat Whatley
- worlds of inequality—the winners and losers of globalization. must it be this way? Miles Corak
- how to price a forest, and other economics problems John Steele
- confessions of a male mommy blogger Nathan Rabin
- robots have been about to take all the jobs for more than 200 years—is it really different this time? Louis Anslow
- the scientists with reasons to be cheerful Ed Cumming
- the story of one of the world’s “sexiest songs” Elizabeth Shockman
- lost and found in russia Kate Fagan
- never mind the bus pass: punks look back at their wildest days Nige Tassell
- when did optimism become uncool?
- religion could die out as world’s population gets richer Elsa Vulliamy
- ask the aged Kari Pillemer
- california winery hires earthworms to clean up its wastewater Matt Weiser
- how moms are making money on instagram Caitlin Moscatello
- the vintage watch boom Robin Swithinbank
- out of the bag: the rise of accessory designers Robin Mellery-Pratt
- millennials are super selective when buying a new bag Ana Colon
- how breakfast became a thing Alex Mayyasi
- show them the money—is the sports business a bubble? Louis Menand
- the nazi underground—is treasurie buried beneath the mountains of poland? Jake Halpern
- more than a mistress: madame de pompadour was a minister of the arts Susan Stamberg
- the education of a gardener Tim Richardson
- the day we discovered our parents were russian spies Shaun Walker
- a brief history of the world (of venture capital) Nicola Colin
- should prostitution be a crime? Emily Bazelon
- how coca-cola and pepsi achieved global domination Julia Belluz
- the science of life and death in mary shelley’s frankenstein Sharon Ruston
- why revolutionaries love food—how the chili pepper got to china Andrew Leonard
- why friendship is like art Julie Beck
- how augmented reality beauty is powering a self-expression revolution Hannah Ongley
- why thieves steal soap Alex Mayyasi
- the cost of caring—the lives of the immigrant women who tend to the needs of others. Rachel Aviv
- america has never been so ripe for tyranny Andrew Sullivan
- 39 studies about human perception in 30 minutes Kennedy Elliott
- better aging through practice, practice, practice Gerald Marzorati
- ramez naam: capitalism is not the enemy of climate Marc Gunther
- who invented the cash machine? i did - and all i earned was £10 Rupert Jones
- bonnie cashin, the most copied fashion designer you’ve never heard of Jeremy Lewis
- off the beat and into a museum: art helps police officers lern to look
- why so many smart people aren’t happy Joe Pinsker
- what would happen if we just gave people money? Andrew Flowers
- the driverless truck is coming, and it’s going to automate millions of jobs Ryan Peterson
- the case against reality Amanda Gefter, Quanta Magazine
- luxury fashion: is the ‘star designer’ era at an end? Winston Chesterfield
- the song machine - the hitmakers behind rihanna John Seabrook
- why are we so bored? Sandi Mann
- prince showed me a whole new way of existing Heather Havrilesky
- how fiction ruined love Alain de Botton
- milton glaser: designing dylan Martin Dupuis
- drunk with power - jon rimmerman, the garagiste founder and wild raconteur of wine
- the internet really has changed everything. here‘s the proof Rex Sorgatz
- how youtubers really make their millions Amelia Tait
- apple, facebook, google, and alibaba take hollywood Nicole Laporte
- “you can’t download a t-shirt”: the evolution (and comeback) of music merch Maria Bobila
- the ghostwriting business Alex Mayyasi
- an artist at 100, thinking big but starting small
- dita von teese on burlesque feminism, nude selfies, and how she came up with her name Patricia Garcia
- the peticoat rebellion of 1916 Jennifer Colton
- the japanese art of self-preservation Erika Nesvold
- david hockney talks mass appeal, virtual reality, and lost bohemian Carl Swanson
- you can go home again: the transformative joy of rereading Juan Vidal
- why the poor die young Derek Thompson
- the rich live longer everywhere. for the poor, geography matters.
- the okinawa diet—could it help you live to 100? Michael Booth
- the penance industry—how a global board games giant exploited ireland’s magdalena women JP O’Malley
- novelty and the brain: why new things make us feel so good Belle Beth Cooper
- one - one—the silent devastation of AIDS on new york’s art and fashion worlds Michael Shnayerson
- feeling like an imposter is not a syndrome—it’s a totally normal part of experiencing success L.V. Anderson
- science fiction come true: moving a paralyzed hand with the power of thought Jim Tankersley
- scientists unveil new ‘tree of life’ Carl Zimmer
- instagram is ruining vacation Mary Pilon
- i’m on the kill list. this is what it feels like to be hunted - drones Malik Jalal
- how actors get plastic surgery with a mouse click Logan Hill
- the international art market is a money laundry whose details are in the panama papers Cory Doctorow
- why talking is lying Rob Wijnberg
- letting (some of) india’s women own land
- ‘london bridge is down’: the secret plan for the days after the queen’s death Sam Knight
- are we living in a computer simulation? Clara Moskowitz
- how the average triumphed over the median Dan Kopf
- soul survivor—the revival and hidden treasure of aretha frankling David Remnick
- satellite images can pinpoint poverty where surveys can’t
- what does genius look like? - don cheadle on miles davis and race in hollywood
- the perils of being manly Roberto A. Ferdman
- the evolution of the garbage truck Eric Grundhauser
- how moms won the internet and what that means for the rest of us Caitlin Dewey
- why smart people are better off with fewer friends Christopher Ingraham
- how the japanese diet became the japanese diet Layla Eplett
- how a basket on wheels revolutionized grocery shopping Zachary Crockett
- dark books Tara Isabella
- the dark side of creativity
- what is art? (bull’s head 1942)
- why boredom is anything but boring Maggie Koerth-Baker
- david bowie’s last days: an 18-month burst of creativity Joanna Walters, Edward Helmore
- the death of the artist—and the birth of the creative entrepreneur William Deresiewicz
- a double funeral on your birthday is the best party you’ll ever have Hayley Campbell
- presenting the real kristen stewart, in all her bold, brilliant glory Allison Glock
- how much does it cost to make a hit song? Zoe Chace
- 100 years ago: the mastermind behind the mona lisa heist Jeff Nilsson
- an examination of the use of light in movies
- up and down. the live of elevators Nick Paumgarten