Dirty medicine - Fortune Features

By Katherine Eban 1. The assignment FORTUNE -- On the morning of Aug. 18, 2004, Dinesh Thakur hurried to a hastily arranged meeting with his boss at the gleaming offices of Ranbaxy Laboratories in…

Why is Science Behind a Paywall?

Scientists’ work follows a consistent pattern. They apply for grants, perform their research, and publish the results in a journal. The process is so routine it almost seems inevitable. But…

The Money Shot

The sale of Instagram to Facebook for a cool billion in the spring of 2012 was the ultimate Silicon Valley fairy tale: 18 months from launch to offer. But, for co-founder and C.E.O. Kevin Systrom, it…

The Luckiest Village in the World

When you come upon the luckiest village in the world, all the curtains are drawn. The old man outside the bar gazes at you warily. Then he disappears inside, the door slapping shut. Is it that you're…

A mother’s story: The moon to his sun

(Editor’s note: Longtime Washington Post reporter and columnist Marjorie Williams was raised to disdain Mother’s Day as a conspiracy by florists and greeting-card manufacturers, her…

Spotting hypocrisy in college sports isn't difficult.

I wanted to stop. Take a break, at least. For months -- years, really -- I've been railing against the essential unfairness of amateurism, the blinding hypocrisy of the National Collegiate Athletic…

Director's Cut: ‘The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved,’ by…

The telephone rang at Warren Hinckle's San Francisco home at about 3:30 in the morning on Wednesday, April 29, 1970. When Hinckle picked up the receiver, he heard the unmistakable voice of Hunter S.…

Schizophrenic. Killer. My Cousin.

It's insanity to kill your father with a kitchen knife. It's also insanity to close hospitals, fire therapists, and leave families to face mental illness on their own. Mark with Houston at Houston's…

The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever | Politics News

Illustration by Victor Juhasz Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati, we skeptics owe you an apology. You were right

The Boston Marathon Bombing: Keep Calm and Carry On

An explosion erupts near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, one of two explosions in an attack in Boston Monday. (Dan Lampariello/Reuters) As the details about the bombings in Boston unfold,…

'Don't Worry, There Aren't Men in the House Today'

If accurate, this Tumblr account by a Boston writer named Alyssa Lindley may be our most vivid description to date of the background that produced the Boston bombers - and much more realistic than…

How Many Heart Beats Do We Get?

It's a question that every runner is asked at some point: "Aren't you afraid you're using up all your heart beats by exercising so much?" First of all, for the record, let's just do some simple math.…

Two brothers, two paths - The Boston Globe

This story was written by Jenna Russell, Jenn Abelson, Patricia Wen, Michael Rezendes, and David Filipov of the Globe Staff. The two young brothers from Cambridge seemed to be on promising paths, one…

The Culprits

Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev In the midst of the Second World War, Joseph Stalin, seized by one of his historic fits of paranoia and cruelty

A. J. Sherman

[view as PDF / Issuu] For my parents, as for many New Yorkers, the countryside was invested with almost magical healing and protective powers: it was the only safe place for young children to spend…

The Story Of A Failed Startup And A Founder Driven To Suicide

Both Sides of the Table A few months ago, on Sunday, January 27, an entrepreneur named Jody Sherman had plans to see a movie with a friend. But that afternoon, the friend received a call from Jody's…

Golf's Biggest Delusions

Golf is only for rich people. Only 10% of the 26 million golfers in the U.S. belong to private clubs, according to the National Golf Foundation. The rest play primarily at public courses, where the…

Browse Title

NYPL Digital Gallery provides free and open access to over 800,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the vast collections of The New York Public Library, including…

The Informant

In the Washington Highlands neighborhood of Southeast DC, up against the Maryland line, everyone plays his numbers at the market at Sixth and Chesapeake. The old drunks troll for change, and kids who…

Shawn Blanc

Marco Arment is calling on Reeder and Black Pixel (NNW) to make a change to their RSS readers, and lead the way in encouraging Google Reader alternatives to use an API that mirrors the the Google…

Bat-Eating Spiders: The Most Terrifying Thing You’ll See Today

Ghost ship: Abandoned Russian cruise liner adrift for weeks in North…

De Nimes

A farmer shows off his trusty blue jeans in Pie Town, New Mexico, 1940. Photo courtesy of Russell Lee/Library of Congress Before we had low-rise, straight-leg, skinny, selvage, stretchy,…

"Lost City" of Tanis Found, but Often Forgotten -- National Geographic

The treasures found in the "lost city" of Tanis rival those of King Tut's. Yet for more than six decades the riches from its rulers' tombs have remained largely unknown.Many who know of Tanis at all…

Sydney, Australia - Summer 2011

Amazing. My eyes hurt, enough that I'm starting to think goggles were invented for a reason. This summer has been one of constant shooting, sometimes 5 times a week for more than 4 hours a day. One…

In the Footsteps of a Killer

Fifty rapes. Ten murders. Two identities. One man. From 1976 to 1986, one of the most violent serial criminals in American history terrorized communities throughout California. He was little known,…

Secure Salted Password Hashing - How to do it Properly

Salted Password Hashing - Doing it Right If you're a web developer, you've probably had to make a login system. If you've had to make a login system, you've had to use some form of hashing to protect…

The Future that Never Was

“This piece is an amalgamation of three essays that I wrote in the Summer of 2012, as well as a more comprehensive look behind the influences and thematic devices of the Tomorrowland…

The ballad of John and Yoko — and Paul — continues more than 40 years…

In 2000, a New York-based architect named Cass Calder Smith was helping his father move into a new apartment, when he discovered a tremendous inventory of interview tapes — hundreds of hours of…

How One NY Couple Found Their Son in the Subway: A Family Made by Fate

The New York Subway station where Peter Mercurio and Danny Stewart found their son, Kevin. (Photo: Michael W./ …People often say that there's no such thing as coincidence, and there are…