The Guy who Ordered a Hit On His Stepmother for $5 By Krista Stevens Highlight Death, delivered as per your instructions.
They Were Extortionists and the Calls Came from Inside the Prison By Krista Stevens Highlight “At least 442 service members across almost every branch of the armed forces had been conned—by prisoners—out of a total of more than half a million dollars.”
Telling About Auschwitz, Before It’s Too Late By Sari Botton Highlight His lover in Auschwitz helped him survive. Now he’s sharing his memories to help prevent the worst from happening again.
Naming the Psychological Effects of Climate Change: Solastalgia By Krista Stevens Highlight “The word he came up with was solastalgia, a portmanteau word of the Latin solus, which means ‘abandonment and loneliness,’ and nostalgia.”
‘The American People Have Been Constantly Lied To’ By Krista Stevens Highlight “U.S. officials constantly said they were making progress. They were not, and they knew it.”
In Death, A Champion for Life Well Lived By Krista Stevens Highlight “She no longer feared death because she could hold it in her hands at any time.”
The Octopus’ Branding Makeover: From Devil-Fish to Brilliant Invertebrate By Krista Stevens Highlight “Each arm, with its own brain inside, moves completely independent of the others. So much so that arms have been known to steal food from each other.”
The Traffic Jam on Mount Everest that Cost 11 Lives By Krista Stevens Highlight “The crowd seemed incredible—like a bag of Skittles had been scattered down the slope.”
The Cobra in the Can and other Shenanigans at LAX By Krista Stevens Highlight And then there was the man “who tried strutting through security with 84 songbirds taped to his body.”
All Hail the Inventor of the Crock Pot: Irving Nachumsohn By Krista Stevens Highlight Irving Nachumsohn invented the crock pot so that his family didn’t have to use the stove to prepare dinner on hot summer evenings. You’re welcome.
Downsizing in the Shadow of Disaster By Catherine Cusick Highlight When housing markets price people out of safety, they cram into disasters waiting to happen.
The Adaptation of Language Evolution By Carolyn Wells Highlight Language has always changed, but the introduction of technology means it is adapting in ways we have never experienced before.
Willie Nelson’s 50-year Love Affair with Trigger, His Faithful Guitar By Krista Stevens Highlight “A guitar sounds better as it gets older, just like a Stradivarius does.”
Woman Writes Story Challenging Gender Dynamics; Is Thwarted by…Long-Standing Gender Dynamics By Sari Botton Highlight How can we combat sexism in publishing if we’re so worried about damaging the reputations of offending men?
How Mister Rogers Found Inspiration in the Everyday By Krista Stevens Highlight ‘“I think that how we were first loved — or not — has a great deal to do with what we create and how,” Fred once told me.’
It Was Putin, on British Soil, Using his Poison Factory By Krista Stevens Highlight Trying to keep a mouthy Russian oligarch safe from Vladimir Putin is harder than it looks. Especially when the oligarch has a penchant for publicly poking the bear.
The Living Nightmare of Homeownership By Catherine Cusick Highlight The manmade dream of owning a home wasn’t built on a solid foundation.
The Alabama “Corrections” System: An American Horror Story By Krista Stevens Highlight “When you lay down to go to sleep, you better be prayed up, because there’s no guarantee you’re waking up.”
The Soundtrack to Hell By Krista Stevens Highlight “Not only was the whine agitating—EHHNNNNNNNN—but its constant drone was like a cruel mnemonic for everything that bothered him.”
The Boeing 737 MAX: “Fatally Flawed” By Krista Stevens Highlight Boeing’s failings with the 737 MAX reveal a dangerous deviation from its engineering-first culture that used to put the safety of the flying public before profit.
A Town Split By a Play About the 1980s AIDS Epidemic By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Sometimes art can challenge viewers enough to change them. Sometimes art just makes the narrow-minded angry.
How to Stay Out of Your Editor’s ‘Jerks’ File By Sari Botton Highlight Rule one of freelance writing: accept rejection with grace.
The Beauty of “Bl-Bl-Bl-Blue Moon” By Krista Stevens Highlight As a society, we need to challenge our assumption that stammering makes someone somehow deficient.
What Hockey Gives and What Hockey Takes Away By Krista Stevens Highlight Hockey is good for the heart and soul, but treacherous for the brain.
“Labor-Saving” Kitchen Gadgets End Up Creating More Work for Women By Ben Huberman Highlight Instand Pot: great. Dover eggbeater? Not so much.
Reporter Uncovers Airbnb Scam. Airbnb Shrugs, Pockets Money By Krista Stevens Highlight Oh by the way, Airbnb makes money on cancellations, too.
The Misidentification of Raheme Malik Perry By Krista Stevens Highlight When a hospice takes a man off life support in a case of mistaken identity, who is responsible?
David Letterman Is Truly Sorry By Sari Botton Highlight Ten years after calling Letterman out for creating a hostile work environment for women, Nell Scovell gets to talk with him about it.
Airbrushing Out the Evidence of Her Son’s Differences By Sari Botton Highlight Are you really achieving representation for your child with special needs if you’re only sharing the upbeat, attractive photos on social media?
As Impossible and Imperfect as Translation By Krista Stevens Highlight “But poetry…has helped me to find new meaning within and across linguistic boundaries.”
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