Adam Joiner’s silver-screen dreams were finally coming true. He had a deal with Netflix, a superstar lead and even interest from Spielberg. There was only one problem: His entire story was a lie
On Saturdays Tootsie Tomanetz cooks barbecue the old-fashioned way for legions of loyal fans. That doesn’t mean she’ll ever give up her day job.
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Retail giants turn to bitcoin technology to combat food-fraud that costs the global food industry up to $40 billion every year.
The ocean floor is the Earth’s last great uncharted region. Oliver Franklin-Wallis joins the man descending to the bottom of the deepest trenches on the planet
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A journey to the underwater volcanoes where life may have erupted.
How did an executive in one of the league's smallest markets steal millions of dollars -- and get away with it for years?
He was the alpha male of the first pack to live in Oregon since 1947. For years, a state biologist tracked him, collared him, counted his pups, weighed him, photographed him, and protected him. But then the animal known as OR4 broke one too many rules.
Liberating ourselves by treating the world as a free place to roam.
For a core of longevity true believers, the time to intervene is now.
Japan is known for its video arcades, from the tiniest little collections of claw games in basements to entire high-rise buildings packed with floor after floor of video amusements. On Sunday, November 17, perhaps the most elaborately themed arcade in the country, Anata no…
Kahve was a favourite drink of the Ottoman Empire’s ruling class. Little did they know it would one day hasten the empire’s demise
Young rebels take on the unpleasant byproducts of festival culture.
What really happened to the MV Lyubov Orlova, a Russian cruise liner that was abandoned in St. John's Harbour nine years ago and eventually drifted out to sea as a rat-infested ghost ship? To find the answers, reporter Randi Beers delves into some Soviet history, the secretive…
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A controversial disease revives the debate about the immune system and mental illness.
In 2001, the internet’s premier file-sharing service Napster was shut down after just two years, leaving a giant vacuum in the ever-expanding peer-to-peer file-sharing space....
For many female wrestlers, the toughest challenge is finding opponents.
Chained wives, violent rabbis, and one woman’s mission to infiltrate an Orthodox crime ring
Shenzhen flooded the world with cheap gadgets. Can it now become what Silicon Valley never did—a global hub of innovation, entrepreneurship, and manufacturing?
History makes no mention of what was one of the most popular all-female country acts ever. Yet the story of the Goree Girls—inmates who banded together in the forties at Texas’ sole penitentiary for women—is worth a listen.
Texas may have inspired Larry McMurtry to become a writer, but there is no writer who has inspired an understanding of Texas quite like Larry McMurtry. At age eighty, our most iconic author still has work to do.
A new short film captures some of Cohen’s reflections on creativity and spirituality, and on preparing for the end of life.
The island, in Siberia’s Lake Baikal, has no paved roads, herds of wild horses and a shamanistic religion. The 52 Places Traveler found his spirit animal there.
A wrenching decision to end life support, and the unthinkable mistake that devastated not one but two families.
John Mueller was the heir to one of the great Texas barbecue dynasties. Aaron Franklin was an unknown kid from College Station who worked his counter. John had it all and then threw it all away. Aaron came out of nowhere to create the state’s most coveted brisket. Then John rose…
In 1961, Joachim Rudolph escaped from one of the world’s most brutal dictatorships. A few months later, he began tunnelling his way back in. Why?
The grim traveler sampled the offerings with a heavy heart.
Liberty Reserve was like PayPal for the unbanked. Was it also a global money-laundering operation?
WhatsApp has proliferated in the highest echelons of the Afghan government — as well as among the Taliban.
The town hasn't yet become the promised global-trade nexus. Nonetheless the shopping zone has lured entrepreneurs hoping to get rich and shoppers trying to get a bargain.
“Stimulating” it leads to calmness, but how and why?
Caltech professor Gregg Hallinan and his team are scanning the universe for possible Earths with cheap antennae built from parts found online, cake pans, and, yes, chicken wire—taking the lonely search for habitable planets and automating it.
Clumsy diplomacy, allegations of bribery, a stinging U.S. diplomatic loss, and China's ascension in the United Nations.
In a new memoir, the bassist describes how he expanded his consciousness, found his muse and landed in a storied rock band.
Forensic scientists, the police and crime scene investigators master horror with a steady hand. This article gives a rare insight into the post-mortem examination of a homicide.
Collecting seashells is as old as humanity. What we do with them can reveal who we are, where we’re from, and what we believe.
The retailer’s bankruptcy filing, and interviews with former employees, give a rare glimpse into a family controlled, intensely secretive operation.
The Reverend Charles Moore ardently dedicated his life to the service of God and his fellow man. But when he couldn’t shake the thought that he hadn’t done enough, he drove to a desolate parking lot in his hometown of Grand Saline for one final act of faith.
The untold story of how digital detectives unraveled the mystery of Olympic Destroyer—and why the next big cyberattack will be even harder to crack.
In suburban Fort Worth the frail psyche of a football prodigy collided with the crazed ambition of his dad, who himself had been a high school football star way back when. The consequences were deadly.
No one in McAllen saw Irene Garza leave Sacred Heart that night in 1960. The next morning, her car was still parked down the street from the church. She never came home.
Step into the private kitchens of Basque country’s sociedades gastronómicas, where everything revolves around food
Twenty years ago my hometown made national headlines when the local college staged an internationally acclaimed play about gay men and the AIDS crisis. The people I grew up with are still feeling the aftershocks.
Not many people will drive the mail to places the U.S. Postal Service won’t. Seventy-one-year-old Gilbert Lujan is one of them.
The death of his life-long skateboarding friend prompts Aaron Gilbreath to get back on his board — at 44, with his toddler daughter in tow.
How Sandoz Pharmaceuticals produced the LSD that turned on the world
In 1942, a volley of torpedoes sent the U.S.S. Wasp to the bottom of the Pacific. For decades, the families of the dead wondered where in the lightless depths of the ocean the ship could possibly be. Earlier this year, a team of wreck hunters set out to find it.
Being ‘good’ need not take years of ethical analysis: just a few moments of gratitude can set you on the path to virtue
‘Each box was like the distillation of all that we have learned as a species about our bodies and their infirmities, a time capsule of medicine.’
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The subprime lending giant is a textbook case in creating a corporate culture of denial.