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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)

The best in narrative, 2012: Storyboard’s top picks in audio, magazines, newspapers and online

PUBLISHED: Dec. 20, 2012
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1657 words)

Of Men, Okapi, and Rebels

An armed wildlife ranger shows off the Okapi. All photos by Jon Rosen “Sécurité iko bien.” It was the baritone voice of Edgar Kamaliro, driver of our mud- strewn Mitsubishi…
AUTHOR:Jon Rosen
LENGTH: 22 minutes (5619 words)

One Foreigner's View of Changes in Myanmar

If you picked up a paper or turned on any sort of international news this week, you probably saw some mention of a vote in Myanmar.  There's a lot of excitement going on both in real life and…
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2362 words)
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What Happens When A 35-Year-Old Man Retakes The SAT?

I took the SAT a grand total of one time when I was in dipshit prep school. This was 1993. Like any other kid, I wanted to do well on the test, primarily so that I would NEVER have to take it again,…
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3431 words)

Streaming Dreams

On a rainy night in late November, Robert Kyncl was in Google’s New York City offices, on Ninth Avenue, whiteboarding the future of TV. Kyncl holds a senior position at YouTube, which Google…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 16, 2012
LENGTH: 26 minutes (6530 words)

My Top 5 Longreads of 2011

Writer Steve Silberman: My Top 5 Longreads of 2011 Steve Silberman is a contributing editor for Wired magazine, one of Time’s selected science tweeters, and the author of the NeuroTribes…
AUTHOR:longreads
LENGTH: 1 minutes (264 words)

LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS

SCOTT ESPOSITOJesse Ball, publishing dystopia, and the triumph of marketing. The Beginning of the End Lisa Jane PerskyJesse BallThe Curfew Vintage, June 2011. 208 pp.By…
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1668 words)

Shifting the Suburban Paradigm

Allison Arieff on design and architecture.Tags:housing,
PUBLISHED: Oct. 2, 2011
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1784 words)
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