“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.””
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.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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