13 Jun 25
Mismatched Fighters Help Up-and-Coming Champs Bolster Their Records in a Winner-Takes-All Industry
A quarter century on, the school shooters’ mythology has propagated a sprawling subculture that idolizes murder and mayhem.
Examining why these ubiquitous, obsolete fortifications carry an air of mystery. (Used in THE PROBING)
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12 Jun 25
Boomers who once flocked to Florida are increasingly ditching the state for southern Appalachia. (used for KUDZU)
Devolving with The Little Mermaid
Considered an artist of the gallows, his true identity is shrouded in myth and hyperbole.
Meet Gaston Grant, one of the very few black owner-trainers in horseracing—and almost certainly the only one who also works full-time at UPS.
The man who built the biggest match-fixing ring in tennis
This is loss. Memory, damp and compact as clods of earth, is dried out in the marketplace and burned as turf.
Despite causing a moral panic, these salacious tales helped boost literacy in Victorian England.
Dwight D. Eisenhower and Marlene Dietrich both belonged to this unusual club.
In 17th-century Germany, a “schandmaske” was the prescribed punishment for social transgression.
Part of responsible citizenship during a pandemic involves avoiding becoming infected (and likely spreading infection) as much as possible. It also involves having a plan in place in case we do get infected.
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