VICE | April 21, 2013 — As the regulator of web property and domain names continues approving new web suffixes for mainstream Internet use, companies and institutions are realizing that if they want to keep their brands intact, they’d better start investing in some fresh digital real estate. The deluge of new web address suffixes [...]
VICE | Jan. 17, 2013 — College tuition is getting steeper every year, particularly at cash-strapped public and state universities. Many of you might be thinking about jumping on the MOOC bandwagon and taking advantage of free online courses, or dropping out altogether. But if you’re a beautiful young female, you need not sweat the [...]
Outside Magazine | Jan. 2, 2013 — Not long ago, villagers on the remote Mentawai island chain off the west coast of Sumatra lived without electricity, cell phone reception, and even a local government. But, as has happened to many other tropical paradises, word got out about the islands’ exceptional surf. Their perfectly curled waves, [...]
VICE | Dec. 5, 2012 — Phil Ross’s love affair with mushrooms stems from a place where so many great ideas are surely born: San Francisco’s pot clubs. It was the 1980s, when the AIDS epidemic was taking off, medicinal marijuana hadn’t been legalized, and pot dispensaries were fewer and farther between. Ross, then a [...]
VICE | Nov. 06, 2012 — Crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter are a great way for people with great ideas to get money while circumventing the traditional hurdles of appealing to venture capitalists. Turns out they are also a great way for people with stolen money to get around the law. On Nov. 5, the founder [...]
VICE | Oct. 31, 2012 — It’s like Breaking Bad, except instead of one chemist, one flunky, and one mean old hitman, this drug experiment will be handled by a trio of scientists hailing from some of the country’s top universities. Three scientists are asking for your money so they can kickstart a meth lab. [...]
Oakland North | Oct. 9, 2012 — A middle-aged swimmer paused at the end of the pool, between laps, and studied the man in the next lane fiddling with his goggles, who had just frog-kicked the length of the 100-foot-long pool, along the bottom, in one breath. She had been wondering about him for weeks. [...]
The Washington Post | Oct. 2, 2012 — During an introductory psychology course at Britain’s University of Essex in 2009, Arnold Wilkins asked his class to participate in a quick experiment. Wilkins projected two images on a wall and asked students to write down whether they found either of them disturbing. One was a photograph [...]
The Washington Post | Sept. 2, 2012 — Mitt Romney’s IRA is worth between $18 million and $87 million, according to his most recent financial disclosure report, filed in June 2012. How did the republican presidential candidate amass such an enormous nest egg? By taking advantage of loopholes while he was head of the private [...]
The Washington Post | Aug. 24, 2012 — In 2002, a surfer named Chad Nelsen enlisted an economist at Duke University to help put a price tag on a popular surfing spot on Puerto Rico’s northwest coast. Nelsen’s idea was novel: to prove that the waves breaking on the beach constituted a multimillion-dollar asset and [...]
