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A Stowaway to the Thanatosphere: My Voyage Beyond Apollo with Norman Mailer

We’re out this week, but we’re re-posting some of our favorite pieces from 2012 while we’re away. We hope you enjoy—and have a happy New Year! On a brisk December day in…
AUTHOR:Rex Weiner
PUBLISHED: Dec. 31, 2012
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3582 words)

Top Science Longreads of 2012 – Phenomena: Not Exactly Rocket Science

Ignore the tedious pundits bloviating about shrunken attention spans. There has never been a better time to immerse yourself in long, deep, rich science reporting. Here’s a list of my 12 top…
AUTHOR:Ed Yong
PUBLISHED: Dec. 24, 2012
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1434 words)

The Messy Business of Tacos

Unwrapping the history of Mexico's real national snack uncovers classism, dynamite, and shifting definitions of culture. Image from Flickr via Jeremy Brooks The search for authentic Mexican…
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2588 words)

The truth about the Fast and Furious scandal

By Katherine Eban Dave Voth, Fast and Furious supervisor for the ATF FORTUNE -- In the annals of impossible assignments, Dave Voth's ranked high. In 2009 the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,…
PUBLISHED: June 27, 2012
LENGTH: 26 minutes (6673 words)

Cocaine Incorporated

One afternoon last August, at a hospital on the outskirts of Los Angeles, a former beauty queen named Emma Coronel gave birth to a pair of heiresses. The twins, who were delivered at 3:50 and 3:51,…
PUBLISHED: June 15, 2012
LENGTH: 2 minutes (679 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)

The Cold Patrol

It was dark when Jesper Olsen fell. Dark and cold. In wintertime in northern Greenland there's not so much as a single ray of sunlight for more than three months. The average temperature is 25°…
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1995 words)

9 Awesome Interviews with Creative Visionaries :

Marina Abramovic with white lamb. Photograph: Marina Abramovic for the Guardian I love a good interview. To me, there's…
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3267 words)
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