First Listen: Charles Bradley, 'Black Velvet'
Charles Bradley had boundless love and talent. This posthumous collection of songs is a testimony to his beauty and spirit.
First Listen: Laura Jane Grace & The Devouring Mothers, 'Bought To Rot'
The Against Me! singer bounds around outside the boundaries and margins of punk, while still sounding unfiltered, playfully profane and overstuffed with ideas.
Is Agnes Gund the Last Good Rich Person?
Ms. Gund is a wealthy white woman who spent a lifetime fighting for racial justice. At 80, she’s the homecoming queen of the philanthropy world. She’s also running out of cash.
Influencer marketing is bullshit
And influencers aren't influential.
What Does It Take to Keep a Classic Mainframe Alive?
Follow the saga of the Computer History Museum's IBM 1401
Sticky science: Evolution of spiderwebs
The eight-legged weavers have been hunting insects for almost 400 million years, flaunting their long history in a rich array of architectures. Scientists are still figuring out the taxonomy of them all.
Why so may hip startups advertise with snail mail
Casper, Glossier, Harry’s, and Away love to send you mail.
Why You Should Go Forest Bathing in Japan
It’s so much more than staring at trees.
Why ‘micropolitan’ cities may be the key to rural resurgence
A development expert says small cities and towns can be catalysts for lagging rural counties
The Shipbreakers
On a desolate, six-mile stretch of Indian beachfront, the bulk of the world’s big ships are dismantled for scrap. Though a ship is usually worth over $1 million in steel, the margins are low, the leftovers are toxic, and the labor—which employs huge
After the Fire
A murder, a missing deer head, and a Mr. Big sting.
How One Hospital Improved Patient Safety in 10 Minutes a Day
Clinical and nonclinical staff at the Rotterdam Eye Hospital have improved patient care and raised staff morale at a very modest cost: 10 minutes a day and a special deck of cards. At the start of every shift, the team members get together for a brief “team-start.” Each team…
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A Cardiologist’s 9/11 Story - Issue 64: The Unseen
From trauma to arrhythmia, and back again.
Financial Services
Learn how SymphonyAI’s financial crime prevention solutions quickly deploy to uncover your risks, improve investigations, and transform your operations.
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Apache Spark Introduction for Beginners
An extensive introduction to Apache Spark, including a look at the evolution of the product, use cases, architecture, ecosystem components, core concepts and more.
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First Listen: Rosanne Cash, 'She Remembers Everything'
Rather than the complexities of inheritance, Rosanne Cash's mind is on what it takes to dislodge entrenched patterns and hierarchies.
The Halfway House
This man, Tom Goodnough, looked guilty as he slunk along, but that was how he always looked even when he'd done nothing wro
From Lithuania, with love
In February 2015, a cryptic email reached former NPR correspondent Ann Cooper from around the globe and across 28 years. It would pull her back into one of the most extraordinary reporting jobs in her career.
What the Hell Happened to Darius Miles? | By Darius Miles
Dudes like me ain’t supposed to talk about this type of stuff. I’m about to tell you some real shit. Things I haven’t told anybody.
Building a Time Machine for Radio
The Radio Spectrum Archive will let you listen to old broadcasts as if they were live
D3 circle scattering
Inside the Tiger Factory
Behold the marvel of the animal’s fabrication.
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Truly, neurally, deeply
Scientists are developing AI systems called deep neural nets that can read medical images and detect disease — with astonishing efficiency
Eliminate an entire category of bugs with a few simple tools
How you can use a few simple static code analysis tools to avoid common programming bugs.
Stet
There’s a term in copyediting called “stet.” That’s what you write when you want the copyeditor to not make the indicated change. It’s probably Latin for, “leave…
Buying My First Gun in the Dark Heart of America
At first I wondered why we needed to go to a gun show to buy a gun. After all, Charles lives about three miles from a store called Frank’s Gun & Repair. It’s at the corner of Highway 51 and 121…
How to stop using console.log() and start using your browser’s debugger
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The Unsolved Murder of an Unusual Billionaire
Last December, a Canadian pharmaceuticals executive and his wife were found strangled in their home. No one knows who did it or why, but everyone has a theory.
Sword Swallowers and Shrunken Heads: An Ode to Johnny Fox and His Freakator
[caption id="attachment_78396" align="alignnone" width="600"] This huge '60s sideshow banner—roughly 8 by 9.5 feet—was painted by esteemed circus arti...
Lumpers and splitters
There are two interesting ways to solve a problem, find a startup or even write a blog post. You can lump two previously disparate categories into one. Or you can split a previously coherent catego…
The Road of Doom Leads to A Lemony Heaven
Limoncello on Italy’s Amalfi Coast.
The elephant as a person
Elephants might have the necessary capacities for personhood – we just need to help them acquire the cognitive scaffolding
Things I Learned Building an Analytics Engine
A side project that got much bigger than I thought.
The man who has eaten at more than 7,300 Chinese restaurants, but can’t use
David R. Chan’s love of lists and determination never to eat at the same place twice has seen him become an accidental expert on Chinese-American history. Just don’t call him a foodie
Hemingway, a Lost Suitcase, and the Recipe for Stupidity
No matter how good our intentions, sometimes we do incredibly stupid things, like lose a suitcase full of priceless writings. In this article, learn how to recognize the potential for stupidity before it happens.
How a Gang of Hedge Funders Strip-Mined Kentucky’s Public Pensions
Kentucky’s willingness to gamble massively on high-risk alternative investments for its pensions has made the state an easy mark for Wall Street hucksters.
How Being a Line Cook Ruined Me
When you exist outside of regular society, when the nine-to-five gig is as foreign to you as going somewhere hot for a vacation, it makes it easier to indulge in the wilder, untamed side of things.
How the Finnish survive without small talk
Their desire for avoidance is a predisposition so common that it’s become hard-baked into Finnish culture.
For Want of a Nail
Without a good shoeing, a horse can indeed be lost. Enter the farrier.
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Dandelion seeds fly using ‘impossible’ method never before seen in nature
Nature - The seeds contain a lot of open space, which seems to be the key to sustaining flight.
The Cheating Scandal That Has Shaken the World of Élite Sommeliers
The revelation of deceit in fine wine’s most sacrosanct circle has rattled the tight-knit world of sommeliers, who pride themselves on presenting a decorous, unflappable face to those outside their ranks.
Nine Electric, Intoxicating Hours Inside Bogotá’s Wildest Party
Like a Cheesecake Factory crossed with a nightclub on steroids, but with absolutely fantastic Colombian food
Sharon Jones Is The 21st Century's Godmother Of Soul
The Augusta-born soul singer's ballads, floor-burners and soaring motivational anthems took the might of Motown's peak and sharpened it to fight the impossible.
Tackling the 7,000-Mile Great Western Loop
The route patches together portions of five other thru-hikes and includes sections of trail-less meandering through the Sonoran and Mojave deserts. It's no wonder that only one person has ever completed it—yet.
France Dispatch: At World’s Largest Food Market, a Sip of Wine After a Nigh
Rungis, a wholesale food market bigger than Monaco, is beloved in culinary circles, but this “working-class place” is unknown to most visitors to Paris.