In the ’80s, Susan Headley ran with the best of them—phone phreakers, social engineers, and the most notorious computer hackers of the era. Then she disappeared.
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“Incels” are going under the knife to reshape their faces, and their dating prospects.
By: Ahmed Ali Akbar   |   Eater   |   Aug 2021
Customs restrictions, high transport costs, and a short shelf life have made the world’s greatest mangoes — grown in Pakistan — difficult to come by in the U.S.
By: Anna Peele   |   Vanity Fair   |   June 2022
Starring swimsuit-clad cast members plucked from obscurity, the reboot of Britain’s Love Island promised to be the dating show for our self-made, self-aware era. After a series of high-profile suicides, including that of former host Caroline Flack, a darker reality set in. Ahead of the new season, here’s a look inside the highly produced machine.
By: Russell Gold   |   Texas Monthly   |   July 2022
After an abandoned well began spewing toxic, salty water onto her Permian Basin land, Ashley Watt would stop at nothing to determine the cause—and to hold Chevron accountable.
By: Katie Baker   |   The Ringer   |   June 2022
From the stewardship of George Lucas to Steve Jobs to Mickey Mouse himself, the story of Pixar is marked by breakups, risk-taking, and sheer creative flair
How Vinyl Flooring Made With Uyghur Forced Labor Ends Up at Big Box Stores
By: longform   |   The Economist   |   June 2022
They can have abilities their creators did not foresee
By: Michael Kimmelman   |   The New York Times   |   June 2022
The nation’s fourth-largest city hasn’t solved homelessness, but its remarkable progress can suggest a way forward.
Will COVID controls keep controlling us?