When You’re a ‘Digital Nomad,’ the World Is Your Office
On life at a Miami digital-nomad compound, which one resident describes as “a hybrid between a summer camp for adults and a reality-TV show without the cameras.”
Jimmy Buffett Does Not Live the Jimmy Buffett Lifestyle
The beach-bum version of Jimmy Buffett has become a huge brand® with financial interests in foodstuffs, hotels, casinos, and even adult living communities. Buffett is the original escapist who has long escaped his original slacker identity. A businessman wrapped in a Hawaiian shirt, he’s worth more money than Bruce Springsteen. (Not bad for a guy who only had one top ten song, compared to Springsteen, who has had 12.)
No One Told Babe Ruth He Had Cancer, But His Death Changed the Way We Fight It
How the legendary baseball player’s cancer treatment in the 1940s helped pave the way for how we treat cancer today.
The Road
Brazil’s massive Amazon rainforest basin is the world’s last terrestrial frontier. Like all frontiers, it’s getting developed for profit and nation-building at the expense of first nations and the native ecosystem. Unlike other frontiers, it’s happening as the world struggles to address climate change. In this epic, in-depth story, Stephanie Nolen travels 1,200 miles on a single road, BR-163, to examine whether Brazil can utilize the Amazon to build itself into a first-world economy while protecting enough forest to honor its global ecological responsibility.
Unlearning Woody Allen
An essay of cultural criticism in which David Klion breaks down Woody Allen’s influence on the culture, romantic comedies, and Klion himself, and realizes the premises and attitudes in movies like Annie Hall and Manhattan aren’t so romantic after all.
The Search for Jackie Wallace
When one of football’s greatest cornerbacks suggested a photojournalist to do a story about him, the man fans called The Headhunter was living under a New Orleans freeway overpass. So what happened to Jackie Wallace? The outpouring of support that resulted from the front page news story helped Wallace get back on his feet, only for him to disappear again.
Forensic Science Put Jimmy Genrich in Prison for 24 Years. What if It Wasn’t Science?
Forensic science — the kind that traces the grooves in bullets, the mark of a shoe, or the scrape of a tool — emerged in the early 20th century as a way to professionalize police work. But once its findings made their way into the court system, it became almost impossible to divide the good forensic science from the bad.
The Cities in Me
A personal essay in which novelist Sorayya Khan maps her family’s path from Islamabad to Solvay.
The Universe Has Been Outsourced
The production of big-name, high-budget games increasingly relies on outsourcing (or “external development,” if you prefer) for the creation of 3D art, level design, and other game assets. Michael Thomsen visited one of the firms that provides this work, the Shanghai-headquartered Virtuos Ltd. Thomsen draws out the tension between the demand for such work and the possibility for exploitation it creates, as well as the role that changing profit margins in the video game industry play in exacerbating that tension.
What Amazon Does to Poor Cities
Depressed cities hoping Amazon fulfillment jobs will lift them have been left wanting.
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