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Making Sense of Modern Pornography

Understanding America’s Moral Divides

Winter Is Coming: Eight Stories That Will Chill You To The Bone

The Four-Letter Code to Selling Just About Anything

How Magnus Carlsen is Making Chess Cool and Wearing His Rivals Down

How Humans Became 'Consumers': A History

I Go Shout Plenty: A Guide To The Work Of Fela Kuti

The true hidden home of Christmas is in China

Five things elevators teach us about design, psychology and hats

Are Kids Bad For The Planet?

The Mastermind

The scientists who make apps addictive

Hungry: By Edwin Madu

What Happened to Eastern Airlines Flight 980?

Eight Women In Love

Why Many Young Russians See a Hero in Putin

Obama Reckons with a Trump Presidency

The Secret Afterlife of Boats

In The Land Of Missing Persons

It’s dirty and disgusting. So why do we bite our nails?

The Fall of the House of Clinton

Bellagio Bandit: How One Man Robbed Vegas’ Biggest Casino and Almost Got Away

Waves don't die: Behind the Making of a Tribe called Quest's Curtain Call

This Is How It Happened

The Devil and Father Amorth: Witnessing “the Vatican Exorcist” at Work

A Brief History Of Noise

The science of herbs and spices

The Strange World of Political Handshakes

How Anthony Bourdain went from CNN’s biggest risk to its most unexpected star

Arron Banks: the man who bought Brexit

Writing the Good English

Three Women Of Chuck’s Donuts

Liquid assets: how the business of bottled water went mad

The History Thieves by Ian Cobain review – how Britain covered up its imperial crimes

The Medical Mystery Of Hair That Whitens Overnight

Chabuduo! Close enough

An Isolated Tribe Emerges From The Rain Forest

The Final Journey of Anders J. Smedsvik

Boyi

Soccer’s Ultimate Con Man Was A Superstar Who Couldn’t Play The Game

The 20 greatest female football players of all time

The Origin Of The Word 'dongle': 7 Leading Theories

Sitting Up

Why do some epileptics smell burning before a fit — and why is there still no cure?

Why we travel

You’ve Run Out

Moving To The Beat: The Rise And Fall of The Funkees

Framed

The Detectives Who Never Forget a Face

How Does The Language Of Headlines Work? The Answer May Surprise You.

The Uber Killer: The Real Story of One Night of Terror

Revisiting the 1998 World Cup final

The Neuroscience of Wine

The Write Stuff: How The Humble Pencil Conquered The World

Uncovering the brutal truth about the British empire

The Miracle of the Modern Banana

A Polygamist Cult’s Last Stand: The Rise and Fall of Warren Jeffs

How Only Being Able to Use Logic to Make Decisions Destroyed a Man’s Life

The strange brain of the worlds greatest solo climber

John Seabrook and the Modern Song Machine

Are We the Only Animals That Understand Ignorance?

The complex life and death of Ken Saro-Wiwa

The clean, green and slightly bonkers world of CBeebies

2016 Will Be One Second Longer Than Expected

How The World's Greatest Gymnast Became Inevitable

Arrow Heads

48 hours in the dark side of Las Vegas

Nettie Stevens discovered XY sex chromosomes. She didn't get credit because she had two X’s.

The L.E.D. Quandary: Why There’s No Such Thing as “Built to Last”

Understanding Hillary

Inside The Playlist Factory

Explorer Lost

The Invisible Forces Behind All of Our Decision-Making

Say Something: Chomsky on Language

The great library rescue of Timbuktu

The Content Marketing Bootcamp

A Boy of Unusual Vision

South Florida Man Alan Amron Says He Invented The Post-it And Lost Millions

The secret of taste: why we like what we like

Silicon phoenix

Selfishness Is Learned

Why LaCroix sparkling water is suddenly everywhere

Do You Think I’m An Animal Like You

Life in the People’s Republic of WeChat

Xabi Alonso and Mikel Arteta: two boys who dreamt of making it big

Sad!

The Unbelievable Tale Of Jesus’s Wife

Disgust made us human

The last book my father read

There’s No Such Thing as Free Will

Twitter Is Betting Everything on Jack Dorsey. Will It Work?

Ali in Havana

This Sucks: The Messy History of the Vacuum Cleaner

The Outsized Life Of Muhammad Ali

How Mark Zuckerberg Led Facebook’s War to Crush Google Plus

Bobby Shmurda: His Surreal Saga and Exclusive Jailhouse Interview

Chef Kwame’s ready to show D.C. a fine-dining experience unlike any other

How Technology Is Hijacking Your Mind — From A Magician And Google Design Ethicist

How the Giraffe Got Its Neck

The Hit Man’s Tale

The Father of Modern Metal

Bill Clinton’s Big Moment: His Health, His Battle Plan For Trump, And What He’ll Do If Hillary Wins

Arch Enemies

A maddening Sound

From ‘Second-Hand Time’

Why Nature Prefers Hexagons

Meet the First Superstars of the Beyoncé Generation

Why the Death of Greatest Hits Albums and Reissues Is Worth Mourning

Leicester City: Dirty Dozen or Harvard Case Study?

Why So Many Smart People Aren’t Happy

Papa Wemba, Congolese Master of the Interwoven Musics of the Black Atlantic

Only In Badu World

The first black arts festival was shaped by Cold War politics

Why We Sleep Badly On Our First Night In A New Place

In the Footsteps of a Killer

A town called Game of Thrones

This Image of Bi Kidude

Why There’s No ‘right’ Way To Speak English

The Holy junk heap

Why Revolutionaries Love Spicy Food

Can an Outsider Ever Truly Become Amish?

The Incredible Stories Behind Lemi Ghariokwu's Iconic Fela Kuti Album Covers

The sugar conspiracy

Money for Nothing: The Lucrative World of Club Appearances

Beating and Bleeding for Christ

Ugg: the look that refused to die

What Happened To Tiger Woods? It’s The Most Vexing Question In Sports

Language Leakage: An Interview with Sarah Thomason

Is Ebola hiding in the eyes of survivors?

The Strange Tale of Echo, the Parrot Who Saw Too Much

And After Many Days

Bezos Prime

When it’s good to be bad

The accidental powerlifting world record holder

Hollywood Mysteries

How ‘LOL’ Became a Punctuation Mark

Benin City, The Mighty Medieval Capital Now Lost Without Trace

‘A Taste of Power’: The Woman Who Led the Black Panther Party

The Great Unsettling

The Weight of James Arthur Baldwin

Is There a Biological Purpose for Profanity?

Our Pungent History: Sweat, Perfume, and the Scent of Death

The Strange Case of the Man With No Name

Chickens Weren’t Always Dinner for Humans

On Bureaucracy and the Left

Remembering Vanity, The Prince Protégé Who Got A Second Chance

On Marrying the Wrong Person

Coincidences and the Meaning of Life

The Badass Wife of W.E.B. Du Bois

Maura Murray and the Internet sleuths trying to find her

Adele: The Full Story

The FBI vs. Fifa

The Science of Conquering Your Greatest Fears

Has Any Human Lived As Well As Fidel Castro's Favorite Cow?

On the Hunt for America's Last Great Treasure

Return Of The Mercenaries

When Bob Marley went to Africa

Inside the Deal That Took Lionel Messi to Barcelona

We're the Only Animals With Chins, and No One Knows Why

Keeping up with Dr. Miami

To be Talked About

Inside the Eye: Nature’s Most Exquisite Creation

The Rise Of Kayode Ewum

Why humans find it hard to do away with religion

The Wire Hanger's Flexible Symbolism

The Soul Serenade of a Music Journalist

The Rebel Virgins and Desert Mothers Who Have Been Written Out of Christianity’s Early History

Inside Facebook’s Decision To Blow Up The Like Button

The mystery of India’s deadly exam scam

Running on Empty

“One Damn Slide After Another”: PowerPoint at Every Occasion for Speech

What Makes Nigel Richards The Best Scrabble Player On Earth

The History of the Croissant

The Bazin Industry in Mali

The Lawyer Who Became DuPont’s Worst NightmareThe Lawyer Who Became DuPont’s Worst Nightmare

The Khanga is Present

The Mathematical Genius Of Auto-tune

The Celebrity Surgeon Who Used Love, Money, and the Pope to Scam an NBC News Producer

The Incredible Thing We Do During Conversations

Bringing Up Genius

The Amazing Inner Lives Of Animals

Fly Lara fly

The Kinshasa Cowboys: How Buffalo Bill Started A Subculture In Congo

The Difficult Bequest: A History of the Smithsonian