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Aaron Gilbreath
The Uncertain Future of Your Neighborhood Dry Cleaner
Startups are disrupting New York’s dry-cleaning industry and threatening the welfare of the Korean-Americans who have thrived in the industry since the 1970s. One thing startups can’t provide, though, is quality.
Signs and Wonders
Obsessed with standing at the geographic center of the U.S. in Lebanon, Kansas, a curious adventurer drives 2,000 miles alone on U. S. Route 83, despite peoples’ warnings. Why? Even he wondered. “Maybe this trip is not the best idea I ever had,” he thought. “What is the best idea I ever had? How good […]
Five Dimes
Online betting made an American expat named Sean Creighton into one of the richest people in Costa Rica, and a savvy business strategy helped him avoid detection from authorities. But after he was kidnapped, no one can say for sure if he was taken for ransom, or if he faked his death in order to […]
Intelligent Ways to Search for Extraterrestrials
The move to formalize this inherently speculative project has many scientific advantages, including securing funding. But it requires researchers be less bound to their earthly ways of thinking.
Irish Butter Kerrygold Has Conquered America’s Kitchens
This is the story of how this unassuming yellow, salty, grass-fed import seduced a nation that produces more than enough of its own cream.
These Sheriffs Release Sick Inmates to Avoid Paying Their Hospital Bills
It’s not only cruel, it draws into question what incarceration is for.
McDonald’s Starts Serving McTech to Survive in the Modern Age
Rapidly modernizing has caused the McDonald’s company some growing pains, but embracing Big Tech might just save them from their old analog self.
Why Some People Become Lifelong Readers
Studies show a link between reading and a child’s home environment, but personality, class, and role models all play a complex role, as well as certain factors outside parents’ control.
Weather Reports: Voices from Xinjiang
The Chinese government denies the mass internment of the Xinjiang region’s Turkic and Muslim peoples, but this forty-page collection of oral histories offers evidence of an enormous humanitarian crisis, with abuses ranging from brainwashing and forced labor to torture.
