The Fall Of Mic Was A Warning | HuffPost

"I don’t need a pair of Nikes. I need a 401(k)" -- and other lessons from the death of a venture-backed, Facebook-dependent, millennial-focused news site.

Earth on Nautilus: The Strange Blissfulness of Storms

Leaving the Grace of This World

More than 17 years ago, a successful Michigan attorney took his life on a cherished trout stream, devastating close friends and family. Haunted by what happened, his nephew investigated and discovered tragic truths that were in plain sight all along.

The Obsessive Life and Mysterious Death of the Fisherman Who Discovered The

A humble Scotsman saw something strange in the water—and daringly set out to catch it—only to have lecherous out-of-towners steal his fame and upend his quest.

A Chain Cut Through a Capsized Cargo Ship Filled W' Cars: Process Is Fascin

Workers used a chain to cut off the first enormous chunk of ship, revealing mangled cars within. Here’s a look at the fascinating way the team pulled this off.

Thirty-six Thousand Feet Under the Sea

The explorers who set one of the last meaningful records on earth.

What It Takes to Be a Short-Order Cook in Las Vegas

Burkhard Bilger’s 2005 piece on the short-order cooks at the Flamingo hotel, who crack well over a million eggs a year, in a city built by breakfast specials.

How an intimate burial can make death human-sized

In burying a stranger, a writer learns that dying can be as small and personal as life.

The History of Creepy Dolls

Take a trip to the uncanny valley and hope you make it back unscathed.

An Atlas of the Cosmos - Longreads

We’ve mapped Mars, the Moon, the solar system, even our own galaxy. Which means there is only one thing left to understand in this symbolic way and that is the entirety of the cosmos.

No Pulse: How Doctors Reinvented The Human Heart

This 10,000-rpm, no-pulse artificial heart doesn’t resemble an organic heart—and might be all the better for it.

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Shelved: Pink Floyd's Household Objects - Longreads

On Syd Barrett's time with Pink Floyd and making an album with household objects and found sounds.

Secret Knowledge—or a Hoax? | Eamon Duffy

When Umberto Eco, the semiologist, medievalist, and author of the best-selling medieval puzzle-novel The Name of the Rose, lectured at Yale to celebrate the Beinecke Library’s fiftieth anniversary, the only one of its many treasures he asked to see was the Voynich manuscript.

What My Sled Dogs Taught Me About Planning for the Unknown (Published 2020)

Working with them in the wilderness means negotiating countless shifting variables. Sounds a lot like the world we’re living in.

The Man Who Refused to Spy

The F.B.I. tried to recruit an Iranian scientist as an informant. When he balked, the payback was brutal.

BBC - Travel - This desolate English path has killed more than 100 people

The Broomway is known as the most perilous path in Britain – and is a favourite walk of writer Robert Macfarlane, who describes it in this adaptation from his book The Old Ways.

The Wildest Insurance Fraud Scheme Texas Has Ever Seen

Theodore Robert Wright III carried out one of the boldest insurance fraud schemes Texas has ever seen. That was only the half of it.

The jaw-dropping story behind an NFL coach's search for his family

Kansas City Chiefs running backs coach Deland McCullough went searching for his biological parents. He found them where he never would have expected.

How a White Lie Gave Japan KFC for Christmas

One cunning business maneuver created a tradition and saved a franchise.

Searching for Misha: The Life and Tragedies of the World’s Most Famous Polar Bear

Both I and my research have been deeply affected by a polar bear I have never met face to face.

How the Library of Congress Unrolled a 2,000-Year-Old Buddhist Scroll

“It was the most fragile object we have ever encountered.”

On the Midway With the Carnival Game Investigators Out to Protect Your Summer Fun

Step right up!

Electric Crypto Balkan Acid Test | Alexander Clapp

After decades of conflict in North Kosovo, all it’s taken for Serb and Albanian politicians to put aside their resentments is the get-rich-quick prospect of cryptomining.

Too Clever By Half - Epsilon Theory

The inevitable result of financial innovation gone awry, which it ALWAYS does, is that it ALWAYS ends up empowering the State. When too clever by

Unraveling the mystery of a stolen ceremonial shield - High Country News

How a sacred object from the Pueblo of Acoma turned up at a Paris auction house, and how the tribe fought for its return.

Buster Keaton’s Last Stand

Production for The General involved guns, bombs, fires, and the blowing up of a bridge in a tiny Oregon town.

The Misplaced Wallet and The Year of Delightful Deception

A college student’s lost-and-then-found wallet leads to a theatrical treasure hunt complete with hollowed-out library books, a disappearing magician, and an unforgettable year of campy one-upmanship.

Cryin’, Dyin’, or Goin’ Somewhere: A Country Music Reading List

Although the sound of the music has changed, country’s themes have endured.

A Border Town Built for Vice

Along the murky border of China and Myanmar is a no-man’s-land where prostitution is unchecked, gambling is rampant, and the tiger bone wine flows freely.

If language began in the hands, why did it ever leave? | Aeon Essays

If language began with gestures around a campfire and secret signals on hunts, why did speech come to dominate communication?

The Valley of the Cheese of the Dead

In this remote Swiss town, residents spent a lifetime aging a wheel for their own funeral.

Exclusive: How Carlos Ghosn Escaped Japan, According to the Ex-Green Beret Who Snuck Him Out

When the auto king fled house arrest, he captivated the world. Now, the guy who helped him is in jail—and never got paid a dime.

A Monk’s Life in Turmoil in Tibet

Dongtuk’s home town was known for self-immolations. How would he choose to live?

7 Weeks, 11,000 Miles, and 2 Tiny Cars: Tales from the Mongol Rally

These people drove from the U.K. to Siberia—and you can, too.

“This Was Abuse”: The Fall of a CBS Showrunner

Earlier this month, CBS fired Peter Lenkov, who’d overseen a powerful fiefdom. V.F. spoke to 30 sources about what happens when a network gives somebody a difficult job, then seems to let problems pile up for years because he’s making it money.

How to Make Sense of an Undrowned Town

Residents of Celles in France were evicted so their village could be flooded. Then, it wasn’t.

In Plain Sight, by Annie Hylton

The search for Syrian war criminals in Europe

How viruses evolve

Pathogens that switch to a new host species have some adapting to do. How does that affect the course of a pandemic like Covid-19?

California’s Lone Wolf Pack

Fourteen animals near Mount Lassen are the best hope for the reestablishment of this misunderstood species.

Alone in the Wilderness, Again and Again

Dick Proenneke has achieved something mythical: he seems happy.

The Guy Who Wouldn't Write a Hit: An Interview with David Simon | Claudia Dreifus

Claudia Dreifus: You are sometimes called “the Balzac of Baltimore.” What’s your take on the title? David Simon: When people say that, I go, “Did you just call me a ball sac?” I usually goof on that. I haven’t read all of Balzac. I keep slicing up society, taking a different…

How a Single Mom Created a Plastic Food-Storage Empire

The story of Tupperware™ is one of innovation and reinvention: a new kind of plastic, made from industrial waste, became a symbol of female empowerment.

How Ultra-Black Fish Disappear in the Deepest Seas

Researchers have found fish that absorb more than 99.9 percent of the light that hits their skin.

The Smell of America

When an Italian patriarch crosses the Atlantic, the family he left behind clings tight to the enticing promise of New York.

The Donkey Farmer’s Magical Matchmaking Book

In the era of online dating, one septuagenarian Irishman clings tight to a method passed down through the generations—and thousands of happy couples are luckier for it.

Coronavirus Conversations With One of America’s Richest Men

How a pandemic unfolds when you’re a Wall Street billionaire.

Bob and Evelyn’s Seven-Decade Dance

In swinging 1940s Hawaii, an eager young sailor courts a trailblazing woman who dreams of joining the Navy herself. The attack on Pearl Harbor upends their lives and solidifies a romance that lasts 67 years.

Highway Through Hell

The human-smuggling route across the Sahara may have been the deadliest on Earth. Then the EU paid off Niger’s army to shut it down — and made it even more treacherous.

A California Type Foundry Is Keeping Vintage Printing Alive

“It’s a really neat feeling to help people be able to print from hot metal.”