The Death of the Music Industry Foretold With Shapes
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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.
A Clean, Well Lighted Place for Thoughtful Essays
Now here’s something you don’t see every day: a thoughtful, historical essay several thousand words long on the Huffington Post. The piece is a concise history of terrorism, or rather,…
Why Wear a Ghillie Suit When You Can You Can Paint One On?
Who doesn’t like urban camouflage in all forms? Well, let’s take it up a notch!
The Weightlifting Snowman in Pictures
Readers and listeners agree: the tale of the weightlifting snowman story is tops. Like the majestic phoenix arising from the ashes, this story was first written for the NY Times magazine…
A Crazy Story
In which a murder victim’s daughter tracks down the Mafia hitman-turned-Central-American-minister who killed her father. Eventually, she confronted the guy while wearing a hidden camera. But to get there, she…
“To briefly summarize a vast, complex literature…”
“…prolonged and extreme stress inhibits the biological processes believed to support memory in the brain.” In other words, science also says that torture yields unreliable information.
Some People are Always on the Right Side of History
Marek Edelman: leader of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (and late Warsaw Uprising); stayed in Poland to become a cardiologist and save lives where he couldn’t during the war; stood with the…
If you were wondering whether they still ban books
The answer is yes. And thanks to the freedom of information represented by the Internets, we can now track book bannings on a handy interactive map.
Books, Movies, Magic: The Rediscovered Genius of the Automaton
I recently read “The Invention of Hugo Cabret,” a sort of hybrid graphic-young adult novel by Brian Selznik that tells a fictionalized story revolving around Georges Méliès, the frenchman who…
Pictures From Pakistan
The Denver Post publishes a collection of stills by Emilio Morenatti, an Italian photographer for the AP who currently covers South Asia. We hear a lot about Pakistan these days:…
Une Voyage Dans Le Lune
I’m going to guess that, like me, very few people have gotten far enough in the silent classic to realize that A Trip To The Moon features a battle sequence…
Animals That Do Exist
I like how one of these incredible animals that actually do exist is just a really huge cat. Some other animals that DO exist? More cats! But the real payoff…