Joshuah Bearman has written about CIA missions, jewel thieves, deranged private investigators, aspiring Fabios, bitter rivalry among dueling Santa Clauses, and the metaphysical implications of being the world's greatest Pac Man player. His article for Wired became the movie Argo.
Why aren’t more people talking about Ghaddafi’s elite team of virginal super soldiers? We all knew Ghaddafi was a megalomanaical and evil dictator with a flair for fashion. But who…
Richard Conniff, author of The Species Seekers, found himself, while researching that book, cataloging the strange deaths of many naturalists over the past two centuries. He compiled them on his…
Collections of imagery culled from Google Street View have been around for some time now, but Jon Rafman has the best eye for discerning the funny, surprising, and poignant moments captured…
The only problem with naming your new weapons system “Gorgon Stare” as the Air Force has done: Medusa’s lapidogenic vision was actually used against her. In fact, it was classic asymmetrical warfare: the…
In Tokyo, at the Shibuya Station, there is a statue of a dog named Hachiko who would come and greet his master every day after week, even after his master…
It was inevitable, given the viral spread of the Gathering ’09’s infomercial last year, that some enterprising and well-vaccinated media types would show up and see it for themselves. I…