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In Wreckage of the Fyre Festival, Fury, Lawsuits and an Inquiry
A few days after the spectacular collapse of the Fyre Festival, just as federal investigators began to circle the wreckage, the event’s would-be mastermind, Billy McFarland, was still making promises.<p>His failed event was sold on social media by the likes of Kendall Jenner as an ultraluxurious …
Fyre FestivalThe Startup That Went Down Under: The Rise And Fall Of 1-Page
1-Page cofounder Joanna Riley took her San Francisco company public on the Australian Stock Exchange. Less than three years later, her board forced her out of the company. (Illustration by Bailey Brautigan/Forbes)<p>In November 2015, Joanna Riley stood in front of an audience at a Dublin technology …
Stock Markets'SNL's' Yuuuge Year: 20 Insiders Reveal Alec Baldwin's Future as Trump, "Spicey" Secrets and Lorne Michaels' Election Pep Talk
Everyone from Kate McKinnon to Chris Rock gives THR backstage access to a historic season as they reveal how Melissa McCarthy became Sean Spicer …
Eric Thames and the Transformative Power of Boredom
PITTSBURGH – Baseball players are often late risers, working second-shift hours. As such, Eric Thames typically began his days in Changwon, South …
Eric ThamesIs Your City Being Sold Off to Global Elites?
"See the little pair of shoes?" Kerry Starchuk brings her minivan to a halt before a sprawling manse with antebellum columns and a cast-iron fence …
Real EstateThe NBA's Secret Addiction
ESPN exclusive! How one performance-enhancing sandwich has spread through the NBA.<p>TRUEHOOP PRESENTS<p>by<p>03/21/17<p><i>This story appears in ESPN The</i> …
Luke WaltonThis Crab Clones Its Allies by Ripping Them in Half
It wields sea anemones like boxing gloves; if it loses one, it makes another by bisecting the remaining one.<p>The American novelist S. E. Hinton once said, “If you have two friends in your lifetime, you’re lucky. If you have one good friend, you’re more than lucky.” By that logic, boxer crabs are the …
The Vigilantes of China’s Bike Sharing Economy
Shared-bike enthusiasts have made a game of scouring the city streets to find and report improperly parked bicycles.
Sharing EconomyForty-one years ago, the US took a big gamble on Vietnamese refugees
Any number of things could have gone wrong.<p>It was March 1975, and my father had been in the US for 10 months. He had a scholarship to get his master’s in applied math at then University of Missouri-Rolla, but he found it impossible to focus. The war at home in Vietnam was getting worse, and his …
RefugeesThe true, correct story of what happened at Donald Trump’s inauguration
<i>I apologize to Donald Trump. As Sean Spicer so wisely said at his first news conference on Monday (It was the first. The one that happened on Saturday did not happen at all, and I recognize that!), it is unfair to be so mean and negative all the time.</i><p><i>Here is the fair and unbiased story about the</i> …
Donald TrumpWhy Trump's Staff Is Lying
It's both a loyalty test and a proclamation of power.<p>One of the most striking features of the early Trump administration has been its political uses of lying. The big weekend story was the obviously false claim of Donald Trump’s press secretary, Sean Spicer, that Trump pulled in the largest …
Donald TrumpThere used to be 4 billion American chestnut trees, but they all disappeared
The kings of the Eastern forest now die as shrubs<p>American chestnut trees once blanketed the east coast, with an estimated 4 billion trees spreading …
The Unexpectedly High-Stakes World of Neo Geo Collecting
Seven years ago, Shawn McCleskey, a dealer of rare video games, trading cards, and vintage machine guns in Memphis, Tennessee, made one of the biggest sales of his career. It unfolded like a Robert Ludlum novel. A man calling himself Wolf wired McCleskey fifty-five thousand dollars, then showed up …
ChildhoodWhat happens to my children’s identity now?
The day after Donald Trump won the presidential election, my 5-year-old daughter was identified by a classmate as having black skin. “Trump doesn’t like black people,” the little girl told her, “so you lose.” My daughter said the girl went around pointing out the other “black” children — they were …
ParentingHow I Got My Attention Back
Technology is commanding our attention in infinite, insurmountable loops. A country trip off-grid helped me escape.<p><i>There are a thousand beautiful</i> …
The Death of the Tunnel Tree
Early last Monday morning, a friend of mine sent news that a tree we knew, a sequoia, had collapsed in a winter mountain storm. I was in New York, where two inches of hard snow sat on cars and tree branches that themselves looked like death. He was in Northern California, near the place where we …
NatureThe medal detective
By Vibeke Venema<br>21 December 2016<p>Few things mean as much to soldiers as their medals. But if the medals get lost, how do they find their way home? That’s where Major Zachariah Fike comes in.<p>When Zachariah Fike returned from Iraq in 2006, he needed a hobby to stop his mind wandering back to the …
Just how smart is an octopus?
<i>Callum Roberts is a professor of marine conservation at the University of York in Britain and the author of “The Ocean of Life: The Fate of Man and the Sea.”</i><p>“<i>The two of you look at each other. This one is small, about the size of a tennis ball. You reach forward a hand and stretch out one finger,</i> …
Biological SpeciesTed Chiang’s Soulful Science Fiction
With just fourteen short stories and a novella, the author behind the recent film “Arrival” has gained a rapturous following within the genre and beyond.<p>In the early nineteen-nineties, a few occurrences sparked something in Ted Chiang’s mind. He attended a one-man show in Seattle, where he lives, …
Science FictionBrilliance by design: LeBron James' bounce pass to nowhere
CLEVELAND -- Midway through the second quarter of the Cleveland Cavaliers' third game of the season -- an Oct. 29 affair against the visiting Orlando …
NBATyrus Wong, ‘Bambi’ Artist Thwarted by Racial Bias, Dies at 106
When Walt Disney’s “Bambi” opened in 1942, critics praised its spare, haunting visual style, vastly different from anything Disney had done before.<p>But what they did not know was that the film’s striking appearance had been created by a Chinese immigrant artist, who took as his inspiration the …
HistoryUnderstand the Energy Department Before Closing It
It was designed to consolidate scattershot programs and make government more efficient.<p>When you hear the name “Rick Perry,” you might recall that time during the 2012 Republican presidential primary race where he forgot the name of a government agency he wanted to eliminate. After saying he wanted …
The movie that doesn’t exist and the Redditors who think it does
The battle to retake west Mosul began, for me, rattling around in an armoured Humvee with two Abaases. “I’m Abaas One. He’s Abaas Two,” the driver, …
Islamic State (ISIS)An oral history of 'Get a Mac,' Part 1
In September 2005, Steve Jobs gave his advertising agency, TBWA\Chiat\Day, an assignment: Come up with a campaign that clearly demonstrates the Mac's …
How Neuroscientists Explain the Mind-Clearing Magic of Running
It is something of a cliché among runners, how the activity never fails to clear your head. Does some creative block have you feeling stuck? Go for a …
Scientists Make Discovery About World’s Silt Deposits But Understand If You Aren’t Interested In That
PEORIA, IL—Wildly speculating about the tantalizing pleasures awaiting just out of reach, sleepover guests at the Rudder household reportedly could …
The Lost Art of Painting on Cobweb Canvases
Monks and peasant artists in the 16th century began this intricate process of re-spinning spider and caterpillar cobwebs.<p>As far back as the 16th …
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