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Are Happy Gut Bacteria Key to Weight Loss?

A few years before Super Size Me hit theaters in 2004, Dr. Paresh Dandona, a diabetes specialist in Buffalo, New York, set out to measure the body's response to McDonald's—specifically…
PUBLISHED: April 22, 2013
LENGTH: 3 minutes (994 words)

What Does the U.S. Pay for Accidentally Killing a Civilian in a Drone Strike?

The U.S. drone war remains cloaked in secrecy, and as a result, questions swirl around it. Who exactly can be targeted? When can a U.S. citizen be killed? Another, perhaps less frequently asked…
PUBLISHED: April 5, 2013
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1852 words)

A Thorough & Comprehensive Review of "Jurassic Park 3D"

It is Jurassic Park, but in 3D. Samuel "Hold Onto Your Butts" Jackson's arm comes straight at your face. (As do the velociraptors.) Here's a CliffsNotes version of the film performed in Legos:…
PUBLISHED: April 5, 2013

In Honor of Buzz Bissinger, Strange Fashion Longreads

Karl Lagerfeld, creative director of Chanel. Pix Planete/ZUMA Press Last week, Friday Night Lights creator and journalist Buzz Bissinger set the
PUBLISHED: March 30, 2013
LENGTH: 3 minutes (998 words)

t.co / Twitter

Twitter uses the t.co domain as part of a service to protect users from harmful activity, to provide value for the developer ecosystem, and as a quality signal for surfacing relevant, interesting…
SOURCE:t.co

MoJo's Best Longreads of 2012

The conventional wisdom claims that people won't read lengthy magazine stories online, but our readers regularly prove otherwise. Many of our top traffic-generating stories have been the deeply…
LENGTH: 1 minutes (386 words)

A Pickpocket’s Tale

A few years ago, at a Las Vegas convention for magicians, Penn Jillette, of the act Penn and Teller, was introduced to a soft-spoken young man named Apollo Robbins, who has a reputation as a…
AUTHOR:Adam Green
PUBLISHED: Jan. 7, 2013
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1009 words)

Atonement

ABSTRACT: A REPORTER AT LARGE about Lu Lobello, a troubled veteran of the war in Iraq, and the Kachadoorian family, three of whom were killed by Lobello’s unit in a chaotic Baghdad firefight.…
PUBLISHED: Oct. 29, 2012

Unmasking Reddit's Violentacrez, The Biggest Troll on the Web

Last Wednesday afternoon I called Michael Brutsch. He was at the office of the Texas financial services company where he works as a programmer and he was having a bad day. I had just told him, on…
SOURCE:gawker.com
LENGTH: 18 minutes (4745 words)
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