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How to Solve Homelessness: The Mundane Miracles of The Doe Fund

The next mayor of New York City will not be George McDonald, though George McDonald is running for mayor. That's OK. George McDonald is already better than any mayor has ever been at addressing the…
SOURCE:gawker.com
PUBLISHED: Feb. 7, 2013
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2370 words)

Dear 02A3172: Letters To and From a Caged Bird

In 1999, when I was 19 years old, I was arrested and charged with first degree murder, several counts of attempted murder, attempted robbery, and several counts of criminal use of a weapon. I was…
SOURCE:gawker.com
LENGTH: 15 minutes (3785 words)

Battleground America

Every American can be his own policeman; the country has nearly as many guns as it has people. Photograph by Christopher Griffith.
PUBLISHED: April 23, 2012
LENGTH: 30 minutes (7666 words)

Twenty Citizens' Worth Of Blood Flowed Through Him: A Medic Confronts The Open Wounds Of Afghanistan

This was originally written for Deadspin's Blood Week, but shit happens and we're running it now. A 20-pound jug of homemade explosives will take off one or both legs somewhere between the knee and…
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2435 words)
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Food's Biggest Scam - The Great Kobe Beef Lie

These are cuts of the famous Kobe beef from Hyogo prefecture in Japan. Note the exquisite marbling of fat throughout. To see it in person, you need to go to Japan, because real Kobe…
PUBLISHED: April 12, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (884 words)

How Your Cat Is Making You Crazy

No one would accuse Jaroslav Flegr of being a conformist. A self-described “sloppy dresser,” the 63-year-old Czech scientist has the contemplative air of someone habitually lost in…
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2873 words)
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