Meet the Group Trying to Kill Seattle’s Minimum Wage Hike
Meet the Group Trying to Kill Seattle’s Minimum Wage Hike
View ArticleScientists Are Still Using Facebook to Study Human Behavior
Scientists Are Still Using Facebook to Study Human Behavior
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Please Stop Parodying TED Talks
Photos by the author It has come to my attention that a new phrase has entered the Hollywood lexicon: “Let’s TED talk this out.” A derivative of, “Let’s hug it out,” which was popularized by a...
View ArticleMaking Friends at the World's Hottest Goth Party
The Wave-Gotik-Treffen festival in Leipzig, Germany, has been the world's hottest goth party for the past 23 years. This time around, between June 6 and 9, the German city was invaded by more than...
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Syrian Children Become Young Breadwinners in Jordan
All photos by Elizabeth Whitman. Laila lives in a sparsely furnished home in the Jordan Valley. Her eldest son, 12-year-old Abdullah, works full-time at a nearby body shop, while her four other...
View ArticleMichigan’s Prison Food System Is Falling Apart
Michigan’s Prison Food System Is Falling Apart
View ArticleThe Interpreters: Hiding in Afghanistan - Part 1
The Interpreters: Hiding in Afghanistan - Part 1
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The Tao of Terence
Image by Courtney Nicholas I learned of Terence McKenna (1946–2000) on September 14, 2012, when I was 29 years old. It was the day after I had completed the main final draft of Taipei, my first book...
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The Highs and Lows of Breaking Your Bones
People break bones every day. In the US, 6.8 million people break a bone each year, and in Sweden (where I'm from) 11 people break a bone every hour. I recently became one of those lucky 11 when I...
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Chinese Street Artist Zhang Dali Evolves in New York
Zhang Dali with one of his sculptures. All exhibit photos by Petra Szabo “I stopped spray-painting the Beijing streets in 2006,” says Zhang Dali, China’s best-known graffiti artist. “Graffiti is the...
View ArticleThe Story of Chef Andy Ricker and His Pok Pok Empire
The Story of Chef Andy Ricker and His Pok Pok Empire
View ArticleUS Congressman Opens Climate Change Denial Conference with Rant Against Water...
Here at the Mandalay Bay resort in Las Vegas, an aging crowd has gathered for the largest climate change skeptic conference in the world. Sponsored by the Heartland Institute—an oil and gas...
View ArticleMore Photos of Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch
Although Michael Jackson’s body shut down from a suspicious drug overdose five years and a week ago, worldwide interest in the misunderstood—and, by all accounts, creepy—pop superstar’s legacy is...
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Dustin Yellin: From Hijacking Golf Carts to Building Brooklyn's Art Utopia
Dustin Yellin, 2014. Photos by Matthew Leifheit "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to...
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Femen Protested at the Tour de France in London Yesterday
Yesterday, Femen took their topless fight for “total victory over patriarchy” to the Tour de France as it zoomed through London. I was told that the group would be in Westminster at 3 PM. Uncertain...
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The Most Intimate Sense: Notes from a Fragrant Book Party
All photos courtesy of the author A week ago, before I zipped it up and stuffed it into a FedEx box, I foolishly poked around the toiletry kit my ex had left in my apartment. I kept toying with his...
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Who Are Ya?: China's Soccer Fans Are Obsessed with Germany's National Team
Photos by Darcy Holdorf Germany is the most popular international soccer team in China. Beyond the immediate visual evidence—hordes of locals walking around Shanghai in knock-off replica shirts—we...
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The Potato Salad Kickstarter Is Incredibly Stupid (and That's Why You Should...
Yes, the potato salad Kickstarter is an incredibly stupid joke that the Internet has deemed worthy of over $40,000. But it's a joke that targets the shallowness of social media panhandling in a fun...
View ArticleWatch Roland Tings'"Floating On a Salt Lake"
Watch Roland Tings' "Floating On a Salt Lake"
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