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How the Trailer Park Could Save Us All

The smooth streets of Pismo Dunes Senior Park on the Central Coast of California. (PHOTO: ARNALDO ABBA) Residents call life at Pismo Dunes Senior Park “Pismodise.” Park manager Louise…
PUBLISHED: April 22, 2013
LENGTH: 22 minutes (5615 words)

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SOURCE:t.co

Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us

1. Routine Care, Unforgettable Bills When Sean Recchi, a 42-year-old from Lancaster, Ohio, was told last March that he had non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, his wife Stephanie knew she had to get him to…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 20, 2013
LENGTH: 98 minutes (24646 words)

Memory to myth: tracing Aaron Swartz through the 21st century

To understand his contributions, we have to look beyond the headlines I met Aaron Swartz in Cambridge shortly after he’d been indicted for downloading lots of JSTOR articles on MIT’s…
SOURCE:The Verge
PUBLISHED: Jan. 22, 2013
LENGTH: 19 minutes (4903 words)

The Hard Life of an N.F.L. Long Shot

Last April 28, a splendid spring Saturday that fairly begged you to be outdoors, I spent all afternoon in front of my living-room TV, anxiously watching the last day of the annual N.F.L. draft, live…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 21, 2012
LENGTH: 37 minutes (9390 words)

The Many Pivots Of Justin.tv: How A Livecam Show Became Home To Video Gaming Superstars

Photo by Jason Madara It was when the San Francisco police burst into his apartment, guns drawn, that Justin Kan first found cause to question his business model. The incident--later immortalized on…
LENGTH: 18 minutes (4533 words)

The Complete History of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

If you were a kid in the 1980s or 90s, you probably spent some time reading, watching, or playing with four adolescent reptilian martial arts experts with irregular DNA. To make sure I got the scoop…
AUTHOR:Rob Lammle
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3114 words)

Odd Blood: Serodiscordancy, or, Life With an HIV-Positive Partner

The pills are $2,000. The doctor visits never end. And there's always the possibility the virus could spread. Otherwise, it's not so different. Andrii Muzyka/Shutterstock Chad, my boyfriend, types…
AUTHOR:John Fram
LENGTH: 23 minutes (5822 words)

Marx at 193

In trying to think what Marx would have made of the world today, we have to begin by stressing that he was not an empiricist. He didn’t think that you could gain access to the truth by…
LENGTH: 23 minutes (5838 words)
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