“In a long list of classic stories, the legendary magazine writer helped teach readers what masculinity looks like in the 21st century. To write his first book, he had to confront the man who first taught him: his father.”
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A Hockey Dad, a Cartel, and a $12 Million Fraud
“Kota Youngblood told his neighbors there were hits out on their lives — and only he could save them.”
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The Man Who Stole Infinity
“In an 1874 paper, Georg Cantor proved that there are different sizes of infinity and changed math forever. A trove of newly unearthed letters shows that it was also an act of plagiarism.”
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Mulling Desire, Honoring Murdered Women, and Our Top 5
I had no idea that the hot, tingly pain of blood returning to a frozen extremity is called the screaming barfies, until I read “What Is a Body For?” by Diana Saverin.
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He Called Himself an ‘Untouchable Hacker God’. But Who Was Behind the Biggest Crime Finland Has Ever Known?
“How would you feel if your therapist’s notes – your darkest thoughts and deepest feelings – were exposed to the world? For 33,000 Finnish people, that became a terrifying reality, with deadly consequences.”
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Why Did the Rubber Chicken Cross the Road?
“At 38, I began to feel the creep of the millennial midlife crisis. So I decided to break the strangest world record I could find.”
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Where the Prairie Still Remains
“Are pioneer cemeteries key to the Iowa prairie’s revival, or its final resting place?”
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The Death of an Asylum Seeker and the Shelter Crisis in Peel
“The number of asylum seekers and refugees needing shelter has surged in recent years, leaving officials in suburban municipalities like Peel scrambling to respond.”
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Life Before Katrina—And After It
“The storm destroyed the home where I grew up, and changed New Orleans forever.”
