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Why Did Jodon Romero Kill Himself On Live Television?

Image by John Gara/Buzzfeed Friday, Sept. 28, 2012Denny's, 75th Avenue and Interstate 10, Phoenix, about 10:45 a.m.No one knows for sure how long Jodon Romero
SOURCE:BuzzFeed
PUBLISHED: May 10, 2013
LENGTH: 19 minutes (4970 words)

The Rise of the Tick

A black-legged tick, which carries Lyme and other diseases. Photo: David Scharf/Getty
LENGTH: 22 minutes (5593 words)

Misguided Nostalgia for Our Paleo Past

The Kobal Collection, Hammer Raquel Welch in One Million Years B.C. (1966) The first thing you have to do to study 4,000-year-old DNA is take off your clothes. I am standing with Oddný Ósk…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 18, 2013
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4001 words)

Solitary in Iran Nearly Broke Me. Then I Went Inside America's Prisons.

Photograph by James West.IT'S BEEN SEVEN MONTHS since I've been inside a prison cell. Now I'm back, sort of. The experience is eerily like my dreams, where I am a prisoner in another man's cell. Like…
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2271 words)

The Marines' Breast Cancer Epidemic

Kris Thomas (left) and Jim Fontella in the Art beCAUSE breast cancer calendar. (David Fox) It all started with Mike Partain, a.k.a. Number One. A barrel-chested father of four with a goatee and a…
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1689 words)
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