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The Mind of a Con Man

Diederik Stapel, a Dutch social psychologist, perpetrated an audacious academic fraud by making up studies that told the world what it wanted to hear about human nature. One summer night in 2011, a
PUBLISHED: April 26, 2013
LENGTH: 26 minutes (6609 words)

State of the Species

By Charles C. Mann THE PROBLEM WITH environmentalists, Lynn Margulis used to say, is that they think conservation has something to do with biological reality. A researcher who specialized in cells…
LENGTH: 32 minutes (8130 words)

The Story of Steve Jobs: An Inspiration or a Cautionary Tale?

Photo: Gregg Segal Soon after Steve Jobs returned to Apple as CEO in 1997, he decided that a shipping company wasn’t delivering spare parts fast enough. The shipper said it couldn’t do…
AUTHOR:Ben Austen
PUBLISHED: July 23, 2012
LENGTH: 18 minutes (4575 words)

The Fall of the Creative Class

© Will Dinski This arti­cle appears in the first issue of Thirty Two, the Twin Cities’ new mag­a­zine. Find us at your favorite local shop or buy it here.  Essay by…
PUBLISHED: June 15, 2012
LENGTH: 15 minutes (3846 words)

An Oral History of the 1992 US Olympic Basketball Dream Team on the 20th Anniversary: Profiles: GQ

It was always a silly rule. According to international basketball guidelines in place for decades, professionals from leagues all over the world could compete for their countries at the…
SOURCE:www.gq.com
LENGTH: 19 minutes (4838 words)

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Peter Dinklage Was Smart to Say No

In January, the actor Peter Dinklage surprised himself during his own Golden Globe acceptance speech. Dinklage had won the award for best supporting actor in a TV series for his portrayal of…
AUTHOR:Dan Kois
PUBLISHED: March 29, 2012
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3740 words)

Those Fabulous Confabs

(Photo: Getty Images. Photo treatment by Gluekit.) Had any bystanders witnessed the attack on Duncan Davidson late one evening three years ago, they could never have guessed its epochal…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 26, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (946 words)

How Companies Learn Your Secrets

Andrew Pole had just started working as a statistician for Target in 2002, when two colleagues from the marketing department stopped by his desk to ask an odd question: “If we wanted to…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 16, 2012
LENGTH: 27 minutes (6789 words)
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