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Joshuah Bearman

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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.
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Virginal Super Soldiers

  • Joshuah Bearman
  • March 2, 2011
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…
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  • Features & Reviews

Naturalists’ Deaths By Unnatural Causes

  • Joshuah Bearman
  • February 22, 2011
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…
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  • Media

The Incomparable Grace of Print

  • Joshuah Bearman
  • February 18, 2011
Portugal has a new, staple-stitched, full-color, full-bleed newspaper that was just voted the best designed paper in the world:
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  • Art

The Last Days of W

  • Joshuah Bearman
  • February 8, 2011
A photographic series by Alex Soth.
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  • Art

Best Shot From the Nine Eyes of Google

  • Joshuah Bearman
  • January 10, 2011
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…
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  • Politics

USAF and Medusa

  • Joshuah Bearman
  • January 4, 2011
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…
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  • Video

“Hardstyle”

  • Joshuah Bearman
  • December 16, 2010
“A HARDSTYLE fractal tierzon fractal, blender rendered diamond animation. Live trumpet live drums, synthesized bass.”
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  • Other

Poor Malchik

  • Joshuah Bearman
  • December 16, 2010
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…
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  • Video

There Will Be Blood — and Power Ups

  • Joshuah Bearman
  • November 29, 2010
The epic, in (surprising metaphorically effective) 8-bit-ification.
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  • Music

Dueling Dispatches from the Gathering of the Juggalos

  • Joshuah Bearman
  • September 30, 2010
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…
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  • Media

The Greatest Headline Of All Time?

  • Joshuah Bearman
  • September 8, 2010
Butts Arrested in Boob Murder Case!
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This Video Raises Many Questions

  • Joshuah Bearman
  • September 3, 2010
Such as: 1. Why are there two camels in a tiny car? 2. How does one get two camels in a tiny car? And the most important question:
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