Snow machines and fleece blankets: inside the ski industry’s battle with climate change
Each snowmaking machine uses around the same energy as a boiler in a family home — but are they the answer to saving our retreating glaciers?
‘This Is Small Talk Purgatory’: What Tinder Taught Me About Love
Just when she is about to give up on finding real human connection on a dating app, C.J. Hauser meets a mate — who stays in her life for a while.
‘My body feels like it is dying from the drugs that are meant to save me’: life as a cancer patient
When Anne Boyer was diagnosed with highly aggressive breast cancer, she was confronted with a cure so poisonous that her body’s fluids became toxic to other people and corrosive to her body’s own tissues.
The girl in a box: the mysterious crime that shocked Germany
In 1981, after being missing for 19 days, 10-year-old Ursula Herrmann was found buried in a box measuring 72cm by 60cm – the size of a small coffee table. So, how did a member of the prosecution team, the victim’s brother, no less, end up acting in favor of the defense?
Dark Crystals: The Brutal Reality Behind a Booming Wellness Craze
The wellness industry has turned cheap stones into #healingcrystals, and the growing demand is damaging Madagascar, one of the Earth’s most biological diverse and fragile ecosystems, and putting its laborers into dangerous mines, many of them children. Is this how you heal yourself?
The Cult of Columbine: How an Obsession With School Shooters Led to a Murder Plot
“Put simply, the world of violent crime is masculine, at least statistically. But the consumers of crime stories are decidedly female. Women make up the majority of the readers of true-crime books and the listeners of true-crime podcasts. Women are not just passively consuming these stories; they are also finding ways to participate in them.”
Life on Thin Ice
“Greenland’s melting has been adopted by the world as its own problem. But for the islanders grieving their dissolving world, the crisis is personal, and dangerous.”
Athleisure, Barre and Kale: The Tyranny of the Ideal Woman
“Barre feels like exercise the way Sweetgreen feels like eating: both might better be categorized as mechanisms that help you adapt to arbitrary, prolonged agony.”
Boar Wars: How Wild Hogs Are Trashing European Cities
Come to Europe for the Grand Tour! See the Colosseum, the Eiffel Tower, the Sagrada Familia, and the newest addition, a colony of wild boars holding up traffic.
The weird magic of eiderdown
“In Iceland, the harvesting of these precious feathers has created a peculiar bond between human and duck. What can this unique relationship teach us?”