There’s a global movement of Facebook vigilantes who hunt pedophiles

“Pedophile hunting” or “creep catching” via Facebook is a contemporary version of a phenomenon as old as time: the humiliating act of public punishment. Criminologists even view it as a new expression of the town-square execution. But it’s also clearly a product of its era, a messy amalgam of influences such as reality TV and tabloid culture, all amplified by the internet.

Source: Quartz
Published: Jul 25, 2019
Length: 26 minutes (6,500 words)

Four Days, 170,000 People, and One Metallica Concert Later, I Figured Out What Salesforce Is

Are you leveraging available garment storage space for fruit transport, or are you just happy to see me?

Source: Quartz
Published: Dec 19, 2018
Length: 24 minutes (6,157 words)

A Look Inside the Small U.S. Towns That Will Be Crushed By the Trucking Revolution

“The highway was taken. They killed my business.”

Source: Quartz
Published: Jul 11, 2017
Length: 7 minutes (1,757 words)

Pro-Wrestling Fans Are Experts on Authenticity

What if the WWF became an entertainment juggernaut not despite its artificiality, but because of it?

Source: Quartz
Published: Apr 25, 2017
Length: 8 minutes (2,238 words)

Giving up alcohol opened my eyes to the infuriating truth about why women drink

“How did you not see this before? I ask myself. You were too hammered, I answer back. That summer I see, though. I see that booze is the oil in our motors, the thing that keeps us purring when we should be making other kinds of noise.”

Source: Quartz
Published: Aug 21, 2016
Length: 13 minutes (3,250 words)

The Memory Thief

After being diagnosed with a brain tumor in his late twenties, a writer begins to lose his memories before undergoing surgery.

Source: Quartz
Published: Sep 30, 2015
Length: 27 minutes (6,870 words)

The Stink of Swine Country

After a decades-long battle, a group of North Carolina residents are suing the pork production arm of a meat conglomerate over the odorous excrement-filled cesspools in their neighborhoods. Is the world eating cheap bacon at the expense of North Carolina’s rural poor?

Author: Lily Kuo
Source: Quartz
Published: Jul 14, 2015
Length: 20 minutes (5,100 words)