In the late ’90s, an MIT economics professor named Michael Kremer wanted to find out if school kids in Kenya were better served by being given free textbooks or medicine that would eradicate stomach worms.
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When Dave Chappelle Met Rob Ford
I was like, “Is the mayor in? Could you tell him Dave Chappelle is here to see him?”
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What It’s Like to Burn Out of a Dream Job
“Burnout happens when you’ve been experiencing chronic stress for so long that your body and your emotional system have begun to shut down and are operating in survival mode.”
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Tom Magliozzi, 1937-2014
Tom Magliozzi, the popular co-host of the public radio show Car Talk, passed away today at the age of 77.
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‘Why Can’t You Be a Kindhearted and Good Individual Like Stephen Colbert!?’
Chris Smith interviews Jon Stewart for New York magazine.
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How a Prolific Counterfeiter Tricked a Swiss Paper Mill Into Helping Him
In GQ magazine, Wells Tower talks to Frank Bourassa, one of the most prolific counterfeiters in American history who reproduced more than $200 million in twenty dollar bills.
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The Therapy That’s Helping People Suffering From Food Allergies
Is it possible to get over a peanut allergy? In Stanford Medicine Magazine, Melanie Thernstrom reports on how oral immunotherapy (OIT) is helping to fix food allergies.
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When Content Moderators for Social Media Sites Experience PTSD
— In Wired, Adrian Chen travels to the Philippines to talk to employees who work at content moderation companies that do outsourced work for companies in the U.S., scrubbing objectionable content (sexually explicit images, gore, racism, solicitation of minors) from major social media sites. It’s a difficult job:
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‘Spanglish Is Not Random’
Spanglish is not random. It is not simply a piecemeal cobbling-together, a collecting of scraps of random vocabulary into a raggedy orphan of a sentence. It has logic and rules, and more interestingly and importantly, it embodies a constantly shifting and intimate morphology of miscegenation.
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When Oscar de la Renta Told Hillary Clinton Not to Wear Black
The iconic fashion designer died yesterday at the age of 82.