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Faster Than the Speed of Sound: An Interview with Holly Maniatty
American Sign Language interpreter Holly Maniatty uses every molecule in her body and the beautiful nuances of ASL to interpret musical performances for Deaf concert patrons.
Posted inArts & Culture, Blog Post, Business & Tech
Why Don’t We Work Less?
Is it because we don’t want to, because we can’t, or is there something else at play?
Posted inBlog Post, Business & Tech, Current Events
We Need to Talk About Uber: A Timeline of the Company’s Growing List of Problems
Uber’s missteps and high-profile scandals have piled up since 2013. Here’s a timeline.
Posted inNonfiction, Reading List
The Spectacle of Crime: On Detectives, Mysteries, and Dead Girls
A reading list about fictional detectives and the authors who mastermind their literary crime-solving, as well as real-life detectives searching for the truth.
Posted inBooks, Business & Tech, Nonfiction, Story
The Creator of Bitcoin Comes Clean, Only to Disappear Again
The mysterious creator of bitcoin asks a journalist to help reveal his identity.
Posted inNonfiction, Reading List
The Spectacle of Crime: On Detectives, Mysteries, and Dead Girls
A reading list about fictional detectives and the authors who mastermind their literary crime-solving, as well as real-life detectives searching for the truth.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
Pablo Escobar: Renaissance Man
As dusk settles on the Magdalena Valley, the jungly middle stretch of Colombia’s great river basin, the hippopotamuses bawl and snort. The indelicate groans of these multi-ton beasts border on comedic, but mostly their ruckus is a fearsome thing—a primal ritual that has churned these waters ever since Pablo Escobar imported four hippos to his […]
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction
How the Brontës Came Out As Women
When Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell burst onto the literary scene, everyone wondered who these mysterious men could be—and if they could even really be men.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Story
How the Brontës Came Out As Women
When Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell burst onto the literary scene, everyone wondered who these mysterious men could be—and if they could even really be men.
