The rise of a new generation of Mormons

Source: Financial Times
Published: Jul 9, 2010
Length: 12 minutes (3,241 words)

TV’s Crowning Moment of Awesome

In thirty-eight years, The Price is Right never had a contestant guess the exact value of prizes in the Showcase showdown. Until Terry Kniess outsmarted everyone — and changed everything.

Source: Esquire
Published: Aug 1, 2010
Length: 20 minutes (5,085 words)

The Mark of a Masterpiece

The man who keeps finding famous fingerprints on uncelebrated works of art.

Source: The New Yorker
Published: Jul 1, 2010
Length: 64 minutes (16,034 words)

Cary in the Sky with Diamonds

Before Timothy Leary and the Beatles, LSD was largely unknown and unregulated. But in the 1950s, as many as 100 Hollywood luminaries—Cary Grant and Esther Williams among them—began taking the drug as part of psychotherapy. With LSD research beginning a comeback, the authors recount how two Beverly Hills doctors promoted a new “wonder drug,” at $100 a session, profoundly altering the lives of their glamorous patients, Balaban included.

Source: Vanity Fair
Published: Aug 1, 2010
Length: 24 minutes (6,002 words)

The Agnostic Cartographer

How Google’s open-ended maps are embroiling the company in some of the world’s touchiest geopolitical disputes.

Published: Aug 1, 2010
Length: 10 minutes (2,680 words)

The Sheikh Who Got Away

Source: Foreign Policy
Published: Jul 6, 2010
Length: 7 minutes (1,846 words)

Is Yemen the Next Afghanistan?

Published: Jul 6, 2010
Length: 32 minutes (8,206 words)

Shock and Ow!

Every three minutes, someone somewhere is getting tased by a law-enforcement officer. It is always painful, occasionally deadly, and likely to result in a hilarious YouTube video. But if you think the Taser is scary, wait until you see the stunning parental device the company is coming out with next

Source: GQ
Published: Jul 1, 2010
Length: 24 minutes (6,106 words)

All Joy and No Fun

Why parents hate parenting.

Published: Jul 4, 2010
Length: 20 minutes (5,020 words)

Brother

Why I no longer speak to the sibling who raised me like a father.

Author: Pat Jordan
Source: Slate
Published: Jun 30, 2010
Length: 18 minutes (4,673 words)