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Generation Why?

Merrick Morton/Columbia Pictures Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, and Rooney Mara as his girlfriend Erica in The Social Network How long is a generation these days? I must…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 25, 2010
LENGTH: 22 minutes (5690 words)

Operation Delirium

At an Army research facility, a soldier given a powerful mind-altering drug said, “I feel like my life is not worth a nickel here.”
PUBLISHED: Dec. 17, 2012
LENGTH: 57 minutes (14306 words)

Pardis Sabeti, the Rollerblading Rock Star Scientist of Harvard

Pardis Sabeti pulls a BMW SUV into the breezeway at Harvard’s Northwest Laboratory, an airy, minimalist structure of smooth concrete, tropical hardwood, and lots and lots of glass. The…
LENGTH: 22 minutes (5739 words)

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LENGTH: 1 minutes (306 words)

'I Just Want to Feel Everything': Hiding Out With Fiona Apple, Musical Hermit

Fiona Apple was upstairs, alone, stalking the small suite of her boutique hotel in Soho. It was noon, in May, and she had arrived in New York, the city where she grew up, a few days earlier from…
AUTHOR:Dan P. Lee
PUBLISHED: June 17, 2012
LENGTH: 28 minutes (7198 words)

The Twitch | VICE

Illustrations by Winston Smith “Rattler Round-Up”  © Winston Smith,  2012 I’m one of those assholes at the airport who slaloms past you on a beeping golf cart. The…
LENGTH: 28 minutes (7199 words)

The Myth of Solid Ground

Photo by Virginia Lee Hunter THIS IS A STORY ABOUT MYTHOLOGY, OR, more accurately, about the place where mythology and reality coincide. It's a story that begins and ends with an earthquake, a story…
PUBLISHED: April 15, 1999
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1072 words)

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LENGTH: 43 minutes (10881 words)

ATCHAFALAYA

Three hundred miles up the Mississippi River from its mouth—many parishes above New Orleans and well north of Baton Rouge—a navigation lock in the Mississippi’s right bank allows ships to drop out of the river.
PUBLISHED: Feb. 23, 1987
LENGTH: 112 minutes (28166 words)
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