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The Luckiest Village in the World

When you come upon the luckiest village in the world, all the curtains are drawn. The old man outside the bar gazes at you warily. Then he disappears inside, the door slapping shut. Is it that you're…
SOURCE:www.gq.com
PUBLISHED: May 6, 2013
LENGTH: 26 minutes (6608 words)

Why we’ll never meet aliens

If you combine all our current knowledge of statistics and astronomy, it’s nearly comical to believe we’re the only intelligent life in the universe. It’s easy to get lost in the numbers thrown…
SOURCE:qz.com
PUBLISHED: May 3, 2013
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2019 words)

Naked Joe: The True Story of 'Nature Man' Joseph Knowles

A stripped-down Joe Knowles on August 4, 1913, saying goodbye to well-wishers before heading off on his Maine wilderness adventure. At first, as the train rolled into North Station on that crisp…
PUBLISHED: April 1, 2013
LENGTH: 20 minutes (5096 words)

The Disaster Response Industry's Salesmen of the Apocalypse

(Corrects price for a case of FloodSax.) Thomas Prior for Bloomberg BusinessweekAn exhibitor tries out a hazmat suit in a decontamination shower at January’s International Disaster Conference…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 15, 2013
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2932 words)

Rough Cut

SURAT, India — The Gujarat Mail is just another red-eye train. Twelve powder-blue passenger cars crisscrossing, like so many hundreds of others, India's northwestern breadbasket through the…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 2, 2013
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3432 words)

Argentina's International Trade Disaster

Alejandro Echeagaray got into the rice business in a roundabout way. As president of BMW Group Argentina, he’s not known for his farming abilities. But in March 2011, Argentina’s…
AUTHOR:Ian Mount
PUBLISHED: Nov. 8, 2012
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2921 words)

The Post-Apocalypse Survival Machine Nerd Farm

Marcin Jakubowski sits cross-legged on the dirt floor of a round hut in Missouri farm country, carefully making an open-faced mayo and cheddar sandwich. Inside the hut there’s a bed, a small…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 2, 2012
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2493 words)

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False positives: fraud and misconduct are threatening scientific research

The Dutch psychologist Diederik Stapel was found to have published fabricated data in 30 peer-reviewed papers. Photograph: Hollandse Hoogte/Boxem Dirk Smeesters had spent several years of his career…
AUTHOR:Alok Jha
PUBLISHED: Sept. 13, 2012
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3417 words)
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