Musicians Come Clean on How They Live, Create, and Thrive While Sober By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight Chris Heath at GQ interviews nine sober musicians on thriving creatively.
Our Understanding of Sun Exposure and Health Keeps Evolving By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Who would have thought scientists would ever compare wearing sunscreen to smoking cigarettes? At Outside magazine, Rowan Jacobsen explores.
This Heist’s for the Birds By Michelle Weber Highlight “I always say, If there is a $50,000 bill flying around, someone is going to try to catch it.”
“Welcome to the House of Horrors”: When IP Address Mapping Goes Wrong By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight John and his mother Ann, who live in a house in Pretoria, South Africa, were two victims of faulty IP address mapping — and the U.S. government played a big role in the mess.
Repairman-man-man-(wo)man By Catherine Cusick Highlight Lauren Hough recounts a decade of misadventures as a female cable tech in the DC Metro Area.
Defrauding the Competition By Catherine Cusick Highlight As competitors prank each other into account suspensions, the business of reinstating Amazon Marketplace businesses is booming.
The Promise of Passive Income from Amazon: Too Good To Be True? By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight Two self-proclaimed “Amazon coaches” say they can train you in their business models so you can make thousands of dollars reselling cheap Chinese products on the world’s largest ecommerce store.
A Race to Claim a Piece of Space: The Out-of-This World Obsession of Meteorite Hunters By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight Meteorite hunters Mike Farmer and Robert Ward travel to Carancas, a tiny village at 12,000 feet in Peru’s remote altiplano, to examine a crater in the hope to claim precious rock from space.
The Bat-Borne Virus That Threatens to Become the Next Pandemic By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight Steven Bedard, a former field biologist, travels around Bangladesh with a team of public health investigators studying Nipah, a bat-borne virus with the potential to become the next pandemic.
You’re Fine, and So Is Your Baby By Michelle Weber Highlight If new parents say they don’t have intrusive thoughts about harm befalling their babies, “they’re lying.”
‘I’m Not Saving These Pit Bulls—They Are Saving Me’ By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight Jason Flatt’s animal rescue operation, Friends to the Forlorn, has saved 600 dogs and counting since 2009 and specializes in rescuing pit bills.
‘Mommy, Are We Famous?’: On the Rise of Kid Influencers on Instagram By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight Kids are a growing part of Instagram’s influencer marketing industry. At Fast Company, Katharine Schwab reports on the rising stars of the platform — and the parents managing their “careers” behind the scenes.
One Foot (and Paw) in Front of the Other: How Far Would You Go For Your Dog? By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight What would you sacrifice for your pet? When Shawna Richer’s dog, Scout, became paralyzed, she had to make a choice: would she put her down, or do whatever it took to save her?
When No One Pulls the Trigger, the Gun Is to Blame By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight At The Trace, Casey Parks tells the story of a Mississippi father seeking justice after learning a faulty rifle is responsible for the death of his younger son.
Thank You for Not Being Afraid, Pat Maginnis By Michelle Weber Highlight Compromise and political reform only take you so far; sometimes you need to shake the whole system.
‘It Happened to My Father the Way It Happened’: The Truth About Green Book By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight At Vanity Fair, film critic K. Austin Collins explores the shaky “true story” of Green Book, the film by Peter Farrelly starring Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali.
The Rich Man and the Sea By Michelle Weber Highlight Laurie Penny spends four days on a boat confronting the archetypal story of “man vs. blockchain.”
You Have to Make Money to Make Money By Michelle Weber Highlight Is that not how the saying goes? Someone tell Amazon.
Who Do You Have for Science This Year, I Have Mr. YouTube Again By Michelle Weber Highlight “The longer these kids stayed there, the further behind they were.”
Shoot First, Ask Questions Later (Or Don’t) By Michelle Weber Highlight Officer Stephen Mader got fired for deciding not to shoot someone, and if that doesn’t say a lot about the problems with police culture in the U.S., I don’t know what to tell you.
No Justice For Old Men By Michelle Weber Highlight In 2018, we’re inured to stories of a powerful men taking advantage of girls and getting away with it, but Jeffrey Epstein’s story still manages to horrify.
Carl Weathers, You Deserved Better By Michelle Weber Highlight Maybe with Creed II, a black actor will get the Oscar nod instead of the one white guy.
Sign On the Dotted Line to Ensure Your Own Destruction By Michelle Weber Highlight New York’s court system aids and abets predatory lenders who prey on small business owners.
The Californians Who Can’t Budge By Michelle Weber Highlight How do you hold down the fort when the fort is on fire?
Bagels are the Best Ring-Shaped Breakfast Food and I Will Brook No Other Opinion By Michelle Weber Highlight I love bagels, but not as as much as Lloyd Squires loves bagels.
For Each Survivor of a Mass Shooting, a Different (Slow) Road to Recovery By Sari Botton Highlight Can anyone truly fully recover from witnessing — and losing loved ones — in a school shooting?
Bread, Disrupted By Michelle Weber Highlight Bread: it was so terrible, right? Thank goodness the tech industry finally iterated on it so we can make a decent piece of toast after 6,000 years.
But Who Gets Custody of the Dog? By Michelle Weber Highlight It seems like America is made up of two broad groups who don’t agree on anything — maybe it’s time for a trial separation.
You Can’t Escape Everything in the Ivory Tower By Michelle Weber Highlight For her father, Jaclyn Gilbert is less a daughter than a debt.
