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Familiar Faces | Science News | Aug. 23, 2013 | 12 Minutes (3,072 words) 27 Aug 2013 | 03:12 pm
On "super recognizers" — a small group of individuals with the ability to recognize nearly every face they have ever seen. Super recognizers are being studied to see if their recognition skills can be...
Reading List: What Happens to Whistleblowers After They Speak Out | Longreads | Aug. 26, 2013 27 Aug 2013 | 04:48 am
From Deep Throat to Thomas Drake: Julia Wick selects five classic stories from The New York Times, Mother Jones, Vanity Fair and more.
The NYPD Division of Un-American Activities | New York Magazine | Aug. 25, 2013 | 22 Minutes (5,701 words) 26 Aug 2013 | 03:40 pm
An excerpt from Enemies Within, a book by Pulitzer Prize-winning Associated Press reporters Matt Apuzzo and Adam Goldman on the NYPD's secret spying unit: "Police collected the phone numbers and e-ma...
Sleeping Together | Harper's | Aug. 26, 2013 | 11 Minutes (2,769 words) 26 Aug 2013 | 11:00 am
A visit to "Tokyo's first co-sleeping café" where clients pay to sleep next to women or pay for "options" like being patted on the head: "Did he get any of the options?' "'He wanted five-second hug ...
'Like Being in Prison with a Salary': The Secret World of the Shipping Industry | Metropolitan Books | Aug. 25, 2013 | 16 Minutes (4,213 words) 26 Aug 2013 | 04:29 am
An excerpt from Rose George's new book, Ninety Percent of Everything on the current state of the shipping industry, which often gets underreported despite it driving our global economy: "Yet the invi...
Reading List: Examining Technology | Longreads | Aug. 25, 2013 25 Aug 2013 | 08:08 pm
New reading list from Emily Perper featuring picks from The New Yorker, Aeon Magazine, and the New Inquiry.
The List | Guernica Magazine | Aug. 15, 2013 | 19 Minutes (4,956 words) 25 Aug 2013 | 03:15 pm
A former USAID employee starts a list and a campaign to help resettle hundreds of Iraqis whose lives were threatened for working with the U.S. coalition. An excerpt from Kirk Johnson's book To Be a Fr...
The Truth About Marissa Mayer: An Unauthorized Biography | Business Insider | Aug. 24, 2013 | 88 Minutes (22,073 words) 25 Aug 2013 | 04:45 am
An exhaustive, 22,000-word account of Marissa Mayer's rise from a focused student in Wausau, Wis. to Yahoo! CEO. Carlson goes back to her childhood to explore the traits that made her so successful at...
About a Boy | New Yorker | Mar. 18, 2013 | 36 Minutes (9,014 words) 24 Aug 2013 | 04:22 pm
On being young and transgender: "At thirteen, Skylar was browsing at Barnes & Noble and came across the young-adult novel 'Parrotfish,' by Ellen Wittlinger, which, along with books like 'Luna' and 'I...
Rah, Rah, Cheers, Queers | London Review of Books | Aug. 23, 2013 | 18 Minutes (4,517 words) 24 Aug 2013 | 04:23 am
"I feel dizzy, exalted: recognized." Terry Castle begins to make peace with her mother and finds joy in the experience of being married in a country where it is finally legal: "But I’m nearly sixty a...
