One man; some auto-dialing software; 96,758,223 illegal robocalls.
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When Mountains Were Ugly
The lair of witches and ghouls before they became an Instagrammer’s delight, mountains are where we go to find a little distance, a little fear, a little magic.
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“The Big Error Was That She Was Caught”: The Untold Story Behind the Mysterious Disappearance of Fan Bingbing, the World’s Biggest Movie Star
Chinese bureaucracy cracking down the Chinese multi-million dollar film industry, where salaries far outstrip the Chinese norm and tax under-reporting is the norm, and Fan Bingbing was the government’s biggest public example.
Posted inHighlight, Science & Nature
The Terror of Being Awake
“I thought, ‘This is it, this is how I’m going to die, right here on the table, and my family will never know what my last few hours were like because no one’s even noticing what’s going on.’”
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How to Move a Masterpiece: The Secret Business of Shipping Priceless Artworks
No one wants to be the courier on duty when a screwdriver accidentally stabs through the crate holding a Monet.
Posted inFood, Highlight, Quotes
The Tyranny of Chairs
Pro tip: your fat friend (read: me) doesn’t want to sit in the booth.
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Rick Steves Wants to Set You Free
Ever wonder what Rick Steves is like stoned? Me neither, and that was a mistake. Sam Anderson goes deep with the man who launched a thousand backpackers.
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Raising Really Good Hell for People Who Cannot
The only thing better than an interview with writer, scholar, and Twitter luminary Tressie McMillan Cottom is an interview with McMillan Cottom where the interviewer is Roxane Gay.
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Stepping Into the Uncanny, Unsettling World of Shen Yun
If you’ve ever read a newspaper, been in a city, or ridden a bus, you’ve seen an ad for Shen Yun. But what is it? Aside from the “organ harvesting, the homophobia, the anti-evolution ballad, and the Karl Marx apparition,” that is?
Posted inCrime, Current Events, Highlight, Quotes
An American City, Inhabited Yet Abandoned
“Not a single person was killed on the day of the rioting. But the following month, May, would conclude with 41 homicides — the most the city had experienced in a month since the 1970s.”