Sitemap - 2014 - Ory's Sunday Reads

The Man Who Forgets Nothing

How Animals Hacked The Rainbow And Got Stumped On Blue

Let's go crazy: Inside the making of Purple Rain

One woman's drive to upend medical testing

How to Survive a Lightning Strike

Finding Marlowe

What Life in Cuba Was Like After Castro's Revolution

Beauty, Mourning, and Melancholy in Africa39

The Hummingbird Effect: How Galileo Invented Timekeeping and Forever Changed Modern Life

A Nairobi Story of Comings and Goings

From Africa To Kent: Following In The Footsteps Of Migrants

How Glenn Close’s father became Mobutu’s personal doctor

Death Becomes Him

How marketers convinced us that we all need mint to fix our bad breath

Why Are So Few Blockbuster Drugs Invented Today?

Thierry Henry: I wasn’t born with a gift for goals

How not to get away with murder

Gangland confidential

Editorial: Out of Sight, Out of Mind–How America Failed James Brown

The men who conquered the Mekong

The Curious Case of Jesus’s Wife

The Quiet German

The Long Captivity of Michael Scott Moore

Understanding placebo effects: how rituals affect the brain and the body

The Obama Whisperer

In Russia, early African American migrants found the good life

It Was All a Dream: Drama, Bullshit, and the Rebirth of The Source Magazine

Gaza: The Murderous Melodrama

Photographing The Unphotographable

Chicken of tomorrow

Escape from Jonestown

The Duke of Doubt

The Chapter:

The Bridge to Sodom and Gomorrah

Battle for the Senate: How the GOP did it

My Grandma the Poisoner

The Triumphs and Tragedies of Larry Smith

What Do Animals See in the Mirror?

Tony Robbins, The CEO Whisperer

Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones wants to be known as football man

Digging Through the World’s Oldest Graveyard

The Stuntmen Who Blacklisted Blackface

You Can Look it Up: The Wikipedia Story

The Origins of the Shroud of Turin

Notes of a Native Son

Tropical Babel

Why We Keep Playing the Lottery

The Making of Ice Cube’s “AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted”

Tales of the Trash

Vice: We’ve Been Had, and We Let It Happen

Our Understanding Of Giraffes Does Not Measure Up

Sole mate: Christian Louboutin and the psychology of shoes.

How Ebola sped out of control

How I Rewired My Brain to Become Fluent in Math

Trial by Twitter

The secret life of a Guinness World Record judge

Justin Timberlake Has a Cold

Why Women Have More Childhood Memories Than Men

Benjamin Clementine: The Barefoot Troubadour Who Speaks His Mind

Food Fluffers

The uncatchable

The Reason Zebras Have Stripes Isn't What You Think

Intel’s Sharp-Eyed Social Scientist

Love And Witchcraft In Morocco

The Upside of Pessimism

Cockroaches: The insect we're programmed to fear

Everest’s Darkest Year

Trust No One

An Interview With Meshell Ndegeocello

Why are almonds so expensive?

Burgers With Muhammad Ali

The Single-Mom Murder

Pop Music’s Nigerian Future

Peter Thiel disagrees with you

Up and then down

The Timely History of a Timeless Story

The Crooked Ladder

The Believer Interview: Ice Cube

A brief history of USB, what it replaced, and what has failed to replace it

The Strange & Curious Tale of the Last True Hermit

Monk: The High Priest of Jazz

The Gangster Prince of Liberia

Why Your Cat Doesn’t Have A Sweet Tooth

Sugar: the evolution of a forbidden fruit

We’re a Zambian Band

Nigeria’s Larger-Than-Life Nobel Laureate Chronicles a Fascinating Life

A Raised Voice

Dead Can Dance

Coke Confronts Its Big Fat Problem

It’s only a matter of acceleration now

The Greatest Story Never Told

The Skies Belong To Us: How Hijackers Created An Airline Crisis In The 1970s

One of a Kind

Behind the Scenes in Putin's Court: The Private Habits of a Latter-Day Dictator

Ramadan in the Land of the Midnight Sun

Just Undo It: The Lebron James Profile That Nike Killed

The Black Widow of Silicon Valley

The Anchor

The Fantasy Life of Tatunca Nara in the Amazonian Rainforest

The White Album: How Bob Marley Posthumously Became a Household Name

The Navy's Deadly Obsession With Whales

Why do we have blood types?

Barry Gibb: The Last Brother

The Man Who Destroyed America’s Ego

Teju Cole: 'two Drafts Of A Tweet? Insufferable. But When I Tweet I'm Still A Writer'

The Radioactive Boy Scout

Font War: Inside the Design World's $20 Million Divorce

The World Cup of Dirty Dreams: Inside Brazil’s Most Infamous Brothel

Twilight of the Pizza Barons

The continuing mysteries of the Aleppo Codex

Consider the Can

Pablo Escobar’s hippos: A growing problem

I Know Times Are Changing

How “Frozen” Took Over the World

How this charismatic, radical pope keeps surprising the world—while secretly dividing the Catholic Church

#History: the journey and many faces of the hash symbol

The Untold Story of the Battle of Bastion

Gertrude Of Arabia, The Woman Who Invented Iraq

Brazil’s beautiful game: Stephanie Nolen’s quest to understand a national obsession

Is Tony Fadell the next Steve Jobs or ... the next Larry Page?

The Man Who Saves You From Yourself

A Short History of the Executioner

The legend of Les Elephants

This Little Light of Ours

Losing my voice

The Chaos Company

The History of the Ramen Noodle

The Unlikely Ascent of Jack Ma, Alibaba’s Founder

Fc: Luis Suarez Is Soccer's Most Beautiful Player

The history of the 7-day week

Maya Angelou, The Art of Fiction No. 119

The Six Seconds Between Love and Hate: A Vine Romance Gone Wrong

Method After Fela

Nutella: How the world went nuts for a hazelnut spread

Femimo by Akwaeke Zara Emezi

The Rise of Nintendo: A Story in 8 Bits

The Hunt For El Chapo

Struck by fandom

In Deep

Guys and Dolls: Veteran Toy Designer Wrestles With the Industry's Gender Divide

Arms wide open

How Zebras Got Their Stripes

The death dealer

The Pope in the Attic: Benedict in the Time of Francis

Jackie Robinson's son is happy to farm coffee in Tanzania.

The remarkable self-organization of ants

The Real Rebels Of Timbuktu

The most trafficked mammal you've never heard of

A Short History of the Modern Bar Code

Why we all love numbers

inside the milk machine; how mordern dairy works

The Dead Zoo Gang

The Story Behind 'xo'

How malaria defeats our drugs

A good man in Rwanda

Wu-Tang, Atomically

The Fat Drugthe Fat Drug

The Murders at the Lake

Fauja Singh | Run on, you crazy diamond

The Afro-iranian Community: Beyond Haji Firuz Blackface, The Slave Trade, & Bandari Music

The Mountains Where Women Live as Men

Running to the River

The Stuntman

Steven Gerrard And The 'top, Top' Chop

The itch nobody can scratch

The Engineering of the Chain Restaurant Menu

A thousand worms merge into a living tower

Tutankhamun’s Blood

The Queen Of The Can

Little Town of Champions

Where do Savant Skills Come From?

The Future Looks Good

What’s gone wrong with democracy

The Dark Power of Fraternities

For Billions Of People, “wasting Time” Makes Little Sense

Greek, black and proud: the village in Greece with African roots

Ghosting

Can't Buy Me Love: How Romance Wrecked Traditional Marriage

A Valuable Reputation

Alone, No Lonely On Modern Hermits

5,500 Kilometers of Evocations: Bombay – Dubai – Mumbai

You Are The Second Person

You Can Explain eBay's $50 Billion Turnaround With Just This One Crazy Story

Boko Haram: Sons Of Anarchy

How the vitamin industrial complex swindled America

Machiavelli Was Right

Death at the End of Bougainvillea

Heaven boom - On the uptick (including from scientists) in belief of life after death

Going the Distance

Where Uniqueness Lies

The 2 Teenagers Who Run The Wildly Popular Twitter Feed @historyinpics

Radio Freedom: A History of South African Underground Radio

OTL: Generation June

There’s a Reason They Call Them ‘Crazy Ants’

The real reason Michael Jordan retired in 1993

Birds That Fly in a V Formation Use An Amazing Trick

The Inventor of Karaoke Speaks

We live in a one-track world, but anyone can become a polymath

What Anesthesia Can Teach Us About Consciousness

The Cult Of Vitamix

I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free

Palmerston: The island at the end of the earth

Jordan Belfort, the Real Wolf of Wall Street

Breath Of Heaven