“Some Conspiracy Theories Turn Out to be True…” Did the US Government Finally Vindicate the UFO Hunters?

“In other words, aliens? “Well, as I like to say, the sceptics have to be right every day,” Pope says. “The believers only need to be right once.””

Published: Apr 27, 2020
Length: 17 minutes (4,309 words)

Why Did We Go Bald? The Love and Loss of Human Hair

“Hairlessness, to put it baldly, was sexy. And a relatively hairless partner would be more likely to produce a less hairy younger generation. Soon the hair was dropping off us at a rate of knots.”

Source: The Independent
Published: Apr 6, 2021
Length: 17 minutes (4,336 words)

The Broken Front Line

“The wave of coronavirus cases that swept across the country late last year put even the most battle-hardened EMTs under unprecedented psychological strain.”

Author: Ava Kofman
Source: ProPublica
Published: Apr 7, 2021
Length: 23 minutes (5,890 words)

The Death Truck: How a Solution to Mexico’s Morgue Crisis Created a New Horror

“She and her team were there to determine how a container of unidentified human remains could have ended up near a residential area of a major city.”

 

 

Source: The Guardian
Published: Apr 1, 2021
Length: 16 minutes (4,132 words)

One-Horse Town

“She goes to work, goes home, repeats; the sun rises, the sun sets. In her quiet corner of the world, self-sufficiency and independence are how both she and her customers survive, even thrive. They find pleasure in their work and in the small slices of life shared daily.”

Source: Eater
Published: Mar 31, 2021
Length: 8 minutes (2,181 words)

The Therapy-App Fantasy: An Overwhelming Demand for Counseling has Spawned Slickly Marketed Companies Promising a Service They Cannot Possibly Provide.

“Like Tinder, a therapy app serves up a tantalizing array of faces and names with the promise of choice and agency. But even if some users get lucky, a satisfying relationship is hardly guaranteed.”

Source: The Cut
Published: Mar 29, 2021
Length: 26 minutes (6,526 words)

Cracking the Case of London’s Elusive, Acrobatic Rare-Book Thieves

“How detectives from Scotland Yard, Romania, Germany, and Italy nabbed the so-called Mission: Impossible gang, which pulled off a string of daring warehouse heists.”

Source: Vanity Fair
Published: Apr 25, 2021
Length: 18 minutes (4,500 words)

Finding My Voice as My Mother Lost Hers

“Not long after I started my job as a radio host, my mother told me she had tongue cancer.”

Source: The Walrus
Published: Mar 24, 2021
Length: 12 minutes (3,100 words)

My Month of Doing 100 Wheelies a Day

“In her quest to master a quintessential cool-kid trick, a writer found the sweet spot at the crossroads of work and play.”

Author: Kim Cross
Source: Outside
Published: Mar 15, 2021
Length: 14 minutes (3,550 words)

The Grassroots Activists Who Protected San Francisco’s Most Vulnerable—and the City—From COVID

“Unidos en Salud ‘made the pain undeniable.’ And then got to work.”

Source: Mother Jones
Published: Apr 18, 2021
Length: 14 minutes (3,600 words)