Twice a day in our house, we turn on a projector that casts cartoon music videos on a blank stretch of wall. The songs are catchy and bright and usually keep our toddler captivated for the amount of time we need him to hold still. “There are no monsters who live in our home,” goes one of my…

The first thought that comes to mind staring at the photograph above is: This has got to be fake. The B-2 stealth bomber looks practically pasted onto the field. The flag is unfurled just so. The angle feels almost impossible, shot directly down from above. And yet, it’s real, the product of lots of…

April 26, 2017 What Bullets Do to Bodies x x x By Jason Fagone x x x April 26, 2017 The gun debate would change in an instant if Americans witnessed the horrors that trauma surgeons confront every day. Photographs by Finlay Mackay 1 The first thing Dr. Amy Goldberg told me is that this article would…

This story deals with topics that may cause trauma invoked by memories of past abuse for survivors and intergenerational survivors of the residential school system. Dennis spotted the cigarettes on their dorm supervisor’s bed. He hesitated a moment, then stuffed the pack of Rothmans King Size into…

Two mountain climbers died near the top of Mount Everest in 2016. Their bodies lay frozen there for a year. Then a journey began to bring them home. In 2016, three Indian climbers died trying to summit Mount Everest. Two of them were abandoned near the top. This is the story of the quest, a year…

Check out more of Jean-Baptiste Chandelier: @Jbchandelier Let's be honest, we've all dreamed about flying at least once. Well, paraglider Jean-Baptiste Chandelier, shows us what that feeling might look like in real life. Sit back, relax and take a paraglide ride around the world, from the French…

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Digital subscribers can listen to this article. Subscribe today for audio stories and much more. Already a subscriber? . Every once in a while, Edwin Debrow dreams that he is a boy again. He is standing in a field of freshly mowed grass. It is a warm day, with no clouds in the sky. The sun is on his…

16 min read· Dec 3, 2017 -- Every Frame a Painting is officially dead. Nothing sinister; we just decided to end it, rather than keep on making stuff. The existing videos will, of course, remain online. But there won’t be any new ones. The following is the script for what was supposed to be the final…

It is a beautiful hand: strong, with long, slender fingers and smooth skin, its nails ridgeless and pink. If you didn’t know Jonathan Koch—if you first met him, say, on the courts at the Calabasas Tennis & Swim Club—you might not suspect that his hand previously belonged to someone else. The…

See how this article appeared when it was originally published on NYTimes.com. A huge government apartment complex in Tokiwadaira, Japan, has become known for lonely deaths.Credit...Ko Sasaki for The New York Times TOKIWADAIRA, Japan — Cicadas, every Japanese schoolchild knows, lie underground for…

“Anything you want. Anyone you want. Anywhere you want. Anyway! Anyway!” —Priests, “Pink White House” (2017) Imagine you are in an airport, and you have forgotten to eat lunch. It’s a mistake you will pay for with a dull, expensive dinner. Hungry, meandering, you happen upon one of those iPads that…

A complete retelling of this episode using emojis by writer and producer Cara Rose DeFabio Tech analysts estimate that over six billion emojis are sent each day. Emojis, which started off as a collection of low-resolution pixelated images from Japan, have become a well-established and graphically…

Alles begann damit, dass ich zurückfragte, nur dieses eine Mal. Die Tankstelle steht am Rande Hamburgs, ob im Norden oder Süden, ist nicht wichtig. Doch es wäre Unterlassung, zu verschweigen, dass ihr etwas Sentimentales anhaftet, jedenfalls in meinen Augen. Frühe Aufbrüche in Urlaube hat sie mit…

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Fiction Cat Person December 4, 2017 Photograph by Elinor Carucci for The New Yorker Margot met Robert on a Wednesday night toward the end of her fall semester. She was working behind the concession stand at the artsy movie theatre downtown when he came in and bought a large popcorn and a box of Red…

Acht Jahre nachdem in einem italienischen Dorf eine Familie ins Unglück stürzte, tiefer und tiefer, je weiter die Zeit voranschritt, ist ein Mann auf dem Weg, ihr neue Hoffnung zu bringen. Niels Birbaumer, klein und weißhaarig, 72 Jahre alt, Professor für Medizinische Psychologie und…

Earlier this May, Gregory Holt had just finished doing the morning rounds at Miami’s Jackson Memorial Hospital, when he got a call about a new patient in the emergency room. He went down with seven colleagues to find an unconscious 70-year-old man with breathing problems and signs of septic shock.…

When I was very young, before I was on the internet — even before the internet was really a thing you could “go on” — I would dial into BBSs (bulletin board systems). BBSs were kind of like private, micro-internets that people set up in their houses. You had to use a dial-up modem to connect to…

Once upon a time, long before I began selling my face by the acre for features on VICE dot com, I worked other jobs. There was one in particular that really had an impact on me: writing fake reviews on TripAdvisor. Restaurant owners would pay me £10 and I’d write a positive review of their place,…

Published inThinkGrowth.org · 5 min read· Sep 19, 2017 -- Another year, another phone announcement. On September 12 Apple unveiled its tenth-anniversary iPhone fittingly named the ‘iPhone X’ and showed off what it calls the “future of phones” featuring a fancy edge-to-edge screen and futuristic…

Teilen E-Mail Vor wenigen Wochen machte auf Twitter das Hashtag #IchbinAntifa die Runde. Ich habe nicht partizipiert, denn ich fühle mich nicht als Teil der Antifa. Sie ist für mich „nur“ eine der (selbst)organisierten Ausdrucksformen der Idee „Antifaschismus“ und eine der Konsequenzen dieser…

Credit...Illustration by Pablo Delcan Feature How Google used artificial intelligence to transform Google Translate, one of its more popular services — and how machine learning is poised to reinvent computing itself. Credit...Illustration by Pablo Delcan By Dec. 14, 2016 Prologue: You Are What You…

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Der Betrug: Früher flog Peter Stadtmann von Zeit zu Zeit nach München, um sich Fett absaugen zu lassen. Das muss er jetzt nicht mehr. Er ist begeistert: „Ich bin wieder total schlank.“ In Haft hat er fast 30 Kilogramm abgenommen. Kein Stressfressen mehr. Sein Leben wird kontrolliert – täglich ein…

London, British Library Cotton MS Claudius B. iv, fol. 16r This is the sign of my covenant, that I make between me and you and all living creatures for all generations, that is that I will set my rainbow in the clouds and it will be a sign of my covenant between me and the earth: when I cover the…

It’s mid-afternoon on a Friday at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California, and three of Elon Musk‘s children are gathered around him – one of his triplets, both of his twins. Musk is wearing a gray T-shirt and sitting in a swivel chair at his desk, which is not in a private office behind a…

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Der Weg zum Kommunismus ist kurz. Bei Rewe vorbei, dann rechts bis zur Aral-Tankstelle, über die Kreuzung in den Kirchweg hinein, wo Bauern in Fachwerkhäusern wohnen und Kopfsteinpflaster die Straße bedeckt. An einem Holzzaun entlang, bei der Trauerweide nach links, über einen asphaltierten Hof, und…

Teresa Mathew for BuzzFeed News The tenet that looms largest in most motorcycle clubs is a fanged, unshakeable loyalty. In Skip Hollandsworth’s 2007 story about the notorious Texan motorcycle club the Bandidos, he notes, “They defend one another. They watch each other’s backs. That’s part of the…

Last January, the Chinese Academy of Sciences invited Liu Cixin, China’s preeminent science-fiction writer, to visit its new state-of-the-art radio dish in the country’s southwest. Almost twice as wide as the dish at America’s Arecibo Observatory, in the Puerto Rican jungle, the new Chinese dish is…

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Mit Yoga konnte man unseren Autor immer jagen. Kann man gar nicht anders zur Ruhe kommen? Er entscheidet sich für eine radikale Maßnahme: einen Wettkampf am anderen Ende der Welt – im Nichtstun. Die Arztkittel kreisen um mich herum, die Drohnen über mir, die Helikopter rotieren, die Reporter…

One day in the spring of 2016 I mentioned to a friend that I needed a new mattress. Mine was a sunken hand-me-down that had become about as comfortable as concrete. “I know a guy who can give you a free mattress,” my friend said. This sounded too good to be believed, but my friend protested it was…