Tarell Alvin McCarney’s Broadway debbut,, “Choir Boy,” is a tender coming of age story about a queer Black boy at a prestigious boarding school.
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Musicians Come Clean on How They Live, Create, and Thrive While Sober
Chris Heath at GQ interviews nine sober musicians on thriving creatively.
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Our Understanding of Sun Exposure and Health Keeps Evolving
Who would have thought scientists would ever compare wearing sunscreen to smoking cigarettes? At Outside magazine, Rowan Jacobsen explores.
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This Heist’s for the Birds
“I always say, If there is a $50,000 bill flying around, someone is going to try to catch it.”
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“Welcome to the House of Horrors”: When IP Address Mapping Goes Wrong
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.
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Repairman-man-man-(wo)man
Lauren Hough recounts a decade of misadventures as a female cable tech in the DC Metro Area.
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Defrauding the Competition
As competitors prank each other into account suspensions, the business of reinstating Amazon Marketplace businesses is booming.
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The Promise of Passive Income from Amazon: Too Good To Be True?
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.
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A Race to Claim a Piece of Space: The Out-of-This World Obsession of Meteorite Hunters
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.
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The Bat-Borne Virus That Threatens to Become the Next Pandemic
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.