For decades, casinos scoffed as mathematicians and physicists devised elaborate systems to take down the house. Then an unassuming Croatian’s winning strategy forever changed the game.
A diabetes drug has become an off-label appetite suppressant, changing the definition of being thin and what it takes to get there.
As Apple CEO, he has defied his skeptics and refashioned the world’s most creative company on his own exacting terms. Now, in a frank conversation, he offers new insight into his leadership—explaining why he sees himself as an outsider, how he asserts Apple’s values, and what he does to keep from staring at his iPhone all day.
A two-ounce songbird. A lemon-sized tumor. An imperial appetite for death, flesh, and the immortal gesture. It was time for dinner.
Forget squeezing millions from a few megahits. The future of entertainment is in the millions of niche markets at the shallow end of the bitstream.
By: Kimon de Greef   |   The New Yorker   |   Mar 2022
Octavio Rettig, an underground practitioner of 5-MeO-DMT, a hallucinogenic substance derived from Sonoran Desert toads, claims that he has revived a lost Mesoamerican ritual.
In a moment of personal and professional failure, I began writing to someone who I thought might be in a position to understand.
By: GBH News Center for Investigative Reporting   |   GBH   |   Oct 2022-Feb 2023
On any given day you may cross paths with someone forced into labor while their trafficker profits. Victims are working in people’s homes and offices, restaurants, construction sites and fields. But too often victims go unidentified, while their abusers avoid justice.
By: T. Christian Miller, Megan Rose and Robert Faturechi   |   Propublica   |   Feb 2019
Death and valor on a warship doomed by its own Navy.
By: Luke Mogelson   |   The New Yorker   |   Feb 2017
A SWAT team of Iraqis, all of whom have suffered at the hands of terrorists, join the fight to retake Mosul—and plan to exact revenge.