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Meet the Man Who Sold His Fate to Investors at $1 a Share

Right around this time, Merrill asked his stockholders to decide whether he should attempt something known as poly­phasic sleeping. The idea—touted by Buckminster Fuller in the…
PUBLISHED: March 28, 2013
LENGTH: 2 minutes (730 words)

Young people are screwed… Here’s how to survive

By Bryan Goldberg On January 9, 2013 Hey kids, you’ve all read “The Hunger Games,” right? Almost all young people have read the best-selling books or seen the Hollywood movie…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 9, 2013
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1562 words)

A Pickpocket’s Tale

A few years ago, at a Las Vegas convention for magicians, Penn Jillette, of the act Penn and Teller, was introduced to a soft-spoken young man named Apollo Robbins, who has a reputation as a…
AUTHOR:Adam Green
PUBLISHED: Jan. 7, 2013
LENGTH: 32 minutes (8104 words)

Marc and Angel Hack Life

November 20th, 2011 @ 4:51 pm  by: Marc Here’s a selection of 60 tiny love stories recently submitted to our sister site, Makes Me Think, that not only made us think, but warmed our…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 20, 2011
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4054 words)

Eric Puchner Finds the Cooler Version of Himself - GQ May 2012

Not too long ago, I was sitting backstage at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco and drinking beer with my doppelgänger, a 39-year-old singer-songwriter
SOURCE:www.gq.com
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1126 words)

The Men’s Journal 20th Anniversary Archive | Men’s Journal

Since 1992, Men's Journal has stood for solid journalism, fine photography, and uncompromising good advice. To celebrate our 20th anniversary, we have published the original versions of the 11…
LENGTH: 2 minutes (574 words)

WalMart's Mexican Bribery Scandal Will Sink It Like an Iceberg Sank the Titanic

Unlike previous Titanic films, Cameron's retelling of the disaster showed the ship breaking into two pieces before sinking entirely. The scenes were an account of the moment's most likely outcome.…
PUBLISHED: April 26, 2012
LENGTH: 2 minutes (719 words)

Need something to read?

By Emily M. Keeler posted at 10:15 am on April 24, 2012 0 If you’re in need of a great read this week, you’ll be glad to know that Byliner has compiled a list of 101 spectacular…

“That Time We Beat the Americans” by Stephen Marche

Fort York, Toronto Canada existsfor no natural reasonLet’s begin with an obvious fact no one will admit: Canadians and Americans are more or less the same people. A Torontonian in New York…
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3650 words)
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