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Nigerian pop star Davido: 'Africans were made fun of. Now everyone wants us'

Who Will Miss the Coins When They’re Gone?

Michael J Fox: ‘Every step now is a frigging math problem, so I take it slow’

Consider the Giraffe

Patti LaBelle, the Doyenne of Philadelphia Soul

Three colours: Red

Milk

The Cat-and-Mouse Game of the Modern Penalty Kick

Spider Silk Is Stronger Than Steel. It Also Assembles Itself.

Unleash the Bulls!

We Two Made One

Skipping the 13th Floor

Jimmy Wales on Systems and Incentives

It’s Time These Ancient Women Scientists Get Their Due

Rapper of the Year Megan Thee Stallion Looks Back on Her Savage, Triumphant 2020

Shonda Rhimes Is Ready to own her S

When Objects Become Extensions of You

Under Pressure: Why Athletes Choke

The Curse of the Buried Treasure

The Huawei War

Rocky': Sylvester Stallone on Being Deprived of Ownership Stake

Fatou vs the Dictator

PlayStation's secret weapon: a nearly all-automated factory

The cheap pen that changed writing forever

The Pretender

A Dish That Reflects Our Nation: Okra Soup

When we lose weight, where does it go?

‘I Would Prefer Not To’: The Origins of the White Collar Worker

Billions' Interview: Paul Giamatti Knows About the Viral Photo of Him on the Subway

The Nepalese man who came back from the dead

From cut-out confessions to cheese pages: browse the world's strangest books

How Cape Town Used Behavioral Science to Beat Its Water Crisis

Stranger Than Fiction

Our Mind-Boggling Sense of Smell

LeBron James continues to expand our concept of excellence

Why Are the Noses Broken on Egyptian Statues?

Black Communities Have Always Used Food as Protest

Justin Sun: the crypto millionaire who acquired BitTorrent — and waded into the trade war

The Lucrative Art of Chicken Sexing

Arsène Wenger: ‘I try to read everything that helps me understand human beings’

Gayl Jones Is Releasing Her First Novel in Two Decades

Behind China’s ‘pork miracle’: how technology is transforming rural hog farming

On Asking People What They 'Do'? -The School of Life Articles

The Deadly Story of Poison

The Rise and Fall of Vanilla Ice, As Told by Vanilla Ice

The Last of the Monsters with Iron Teeth

Meet Nathan Apodaca, the viral Fleetwood Mac TikTok star

Reasons Revealed for the Brain’s Elastic Sense of Time

Edward Enninful Interview on British Vogue, Race and Fashion

How ‘Goodfellas’ and the Gangster Class of 1990 Changed Hollywood

A psychoanalytic reading of social media and the death drive

The economics of the Tour de France

Where Camels Take to the Sea

Life’s Work: An Interview with Sugar Ray Leonard

In 'Let Love Rule,' Lenny Kravitz Breaks Down How He Found His Sound

Shelved: Jimi Hendrix’s Black Gold Suite

Rubik’s Cube Inventor Opens Up About His Creation in New Book 'Cubed'

The Stowaway. A global wave of high profile crimes

The rise, fall, and rise of the status pineapple

Alysia Montaño Is the Hero of This Story

Content density: Why TikToks trounce Stories

Dickheads

Do You Have What It Takes to Be a Master Auctioneer?

How Police Are Using 'Super Recognizers' Like Me to Track Criminals

The Day Malcolm X Was Killed

A Kingdom from Dust

On Sacred Ground

Mariah Carey on MC30, The Rarities, and Her Upcoming Memoir

Collections: Bread, How Did They Make It?

Paris Review - Good Boy

The George Foreman Grill Changed the Way Men Cook Forever

To Fight Apple and Google’s Grip, Fortnite Creator Mounts a Crusade

The evolution of Palestinian cuisine - Palestinians

Why Sudan's Remarkable Ancient Civilization Has Been Overlooked by History

“This Plane Is Not Going to Land in Cairo”: Saudi Prince Sultan Boarded a Flight in Paris. Then, He Disappeared

The Life of a Song: ‘In the Air Tonight’

How Dallas Turned The TV Cliff-Hanger Into A Pop Culture Phenomenon

Hitting the Wall

Why are tennis crowds quiet?

Respect - the Greatest Day in Harlem

The Strange Tale of Nelson Mandela’s Gold-Cast Hands

Cracking the Case of South India’s Missing Vegetables

The ‘Slam’ of Your Car Door Is Fake

The mysterious case of man who can read letters—but not numbers—exposes roots of consciousness

Zak Brown's Impossible Task: Saving McLaren Racing

All Roads Need Not Lead To China

How the Ultimate Live-in Boyfriend Evolved His Way Around Rejection

The complex history of Cape Muslim cuisine

Behind the Scenes With Buffett’s Biographer, Alice Schroeder

'We Are the World': Inside Pop Music's Most Famous All-Nighter

Grace Jones, by Okojie

Your money’s no good here

Meet the Gen Z Kingpin of TikTok

How Carlos Ghosn Escaped Japan, According to the Ex-Green Beret Who Snuck Him Out

King Klopp

Putin: A Russian Spy Story review – 'schoolyard thug' who became an unstoppable leader

The Secret of Scooby-Doo’s Enduring Appeal

The Leech Barometer

The Technology That Changed Air Travel

The Remarkable Rise of Lil Baby

Why Do We Even Listen to New Music?

How to Marry an African President

How Just Dance Conquered the World

Heart of An Assassin: How Daniel Craig Changed James Bond Forever

Welcome to the United States of Amazon

Running in the Age of Coronavirus

Black Body: Rereading James Baldwin’s “Stranger in the Village”

The Rise of TikTok and Understanding Its Parent Company, ByteDance

Are ghosts haunting the British Museum?

As Stevie Wonder turns 70, a look at how he wrote the soundtrack for a fragile America

Spike Lee and the Battlefield of American History

Silicon Valley’s favorite magician reimagines his act in the age of Zoom

Manufacturing Process Of Umbrella

Michael Jordan: A history of flight

The real Lord of the Flies: what happened when six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months

Army Ranger School Is a Laboratory of Human Endurance

Exploring Nigerian Folktales, Food Myths & Taboos

Thirty-six Thousand Feet Under the Sea

Why Humans Totally Freak Out When They Get Lost

A global look inside a Ramadan dampened by coronavirus

The Jordans Rule: The Heart of Today’s Billion-Dollar Sneaker-Collecting Boom Is 35 Years Old

How Greenwich Republicans Learned to Love Trump

Marie Kondo cleaned house. Now she wants to fix your whole life

The secret history of Monopoly: the capitalist board game’s leftwing origins

The System That Actually Worked

Why we like what we like: A scientist’s surprising findings

In search of Inigo Philbrick, the disappearing art dealer

Death of the office

Murder at Sutton Place

Eliud Kipchoge: The humble home life in rural Kenya behind remarkable athletic success

How Kobe Bryant’s death brought Bobby McIlvaine back to life

What plants can teach us about survival

Three colours - Blue

The True Story of the White Island Eruption

Inside the Strip Clubs of Instagram

How Mark Dixon Built His Co-Working Company to Survive Coronavirus

On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs

Bill Withers: The Soul Man Who Walked Away

Love Is Not a Permanent State of Enthusiasm

Burna Boy, Global Giant

Inside the Great Kettlebell Shortage of 2020

Pandemics and the Shape of Human History

Why do human beings keep getting diseases from bats?

MBS - The Rise of a Saudi Prince

How Mount Everest became a multimillion-dollar business

The secret resistance behind the world’s most dangerous cheese

The Mega-Wars That Shaped World History

How Liverpool’s academy has caught up with 21st-century Britain to thrive again

Teddy Riley Breaks Down Iconic Songs That Made Him The King Of New Jack Swing, Plans To Battle Babyface

The untold origin story of the N95 mask

From Communism To Coding: How Daniel Dines Of 7 Billion UiPath Became The First Bot Billionaire

Solitude and Leadership

Yes. Stress does give you gray hairs. Here’s how.

Rick Astley: How we Made Never Gonna Give You Up

Coronavirus and the Clash of Civilizations

Why Japan is obsessed with paper

The Coder and the Dictator

Real estate for the apocalypse my journey into a survival bunker

Yuval Noah Harari’s History of Everyone, Ever

The Hollywood Con Queen

What Coke Contains

Can't Stop Touching Your Face? Science Has Some Theories Why

Germany’s Most Important Informant Tells His Story

Where did the love go? In today’s black pop music, love songs are harder to find

How a Shipwrecked Crew Survived 10 Days Lost at Sea

A week in Manila with Manny Pacquiao: senator, boxer ... and future president?

A Family Massacre

There’s an Entire Industry Dedicated to Making Foods Crispy, and It Is WILD

The Hollywood Producer, the Heiress and a Very Personal Quest for Justice

How Glossier turned itself into a billion-dollar beauty brand

When a Man Took a Joke in a Pepsi Ad Seriously, Chaos Ensued

How to Make Billions in E-Sports

Binyavanga

The Great Buenos Aires Bank Heist

Why Astrology Matters

Going Cold Turkey: Can a millennial survive a week without a smartphone?

Cathie Wood, the Best Investor You’ve Never Heard Of.

Mariya Russell - The First Black Woman to Earn a Michelin Star.

Three shifts at the Scrabble factory: The inventor

How McDonald's revolutionised business

Is Sunscreen the New Margarine?

A Photographer at the Ends of the Earth

What Happened to Playboy’s First Black Cover Girl?

Talk Less. Listen More. Here’s How

Pause and Effect: The past and future of punctuation marks.

Stephen A. Smith Is Never Satisfied

The rise of Japan's 'super solo' culture

The Forgotten Black Woman Inventor Who Revolutionized Menstrual Pads

How Under Armour Lost Its Edge - The New York Times

A Brief Global History of the War on Cannabis

Rohingya crisis: The Gambian who took Aung San Suu Kyi to the world court - BBC News

Dance or die: fighting for the legacy of Bogle, the “Godfather of dancehall”

AOC’s first year in Washington

David Wondrich Has Finally Figured Out the Real Origin of the Word Cocktail

The Story of the Black King Among the Magi

The wonderful world of insects

Why airplane windows have round corners | Just Well Mixed

How Carlos Goshn became the World’s most famous fugitive

The lost story of Nearest Green, the slave who taught Jack Daniel how to make whiskey - CBS News

A Sledge Across the Personal Tundra - Open The Magazine

Hype House and the Los Angeles TikTok Mansion Gold Rush - The New York Times

Dwayne Johnson: The Pain and the Passion That Fuel the Rock

The Doctor, the Dentist, and the Killer – Texas Monthly

Blue spaces: why time spent near water is the secret of happiness

Exceptional, ruthless

How social media shapes our identity