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We give babies rattles because babies understand abandon, because they're not too proud or complicated yet to shake those rattles hard and feel free. I'm no baby; I'm a man, [...]

Two men were sitting in a parked car, waiting to pick someone up. Carlos Cervantes was in the driver's seat. He was 30, with glassy green eyes -- quiet by [...]

Byline: BY JON MOOALLEM CHRISTOPH NIEMANN Q: We name other planets' moons, so why haven't we named our own? A: Well, the moon does technically have a name: 'the moon.' [...]

Byline: BY JON MOOALLEM CHRISTOPH NIEMANN Q: What's the right age for my kid to watch Star Wars? A: Let me introduce you to Amanda, a 33-year-old mixed martial arts [...]

1. Heavy is the head that wears the crown The Pigeon King delivered his closing statement to the jury dressed in his only suit. His name was Arlan Galbraith, and [...]

The article presents a personal narrative which explores author's experiences of parenting in pandemic and watching Baseball league in Spokane, Washington, U.S.

Gary Kremen sat in his San Francisco office on a winter afternoon, shouting on his cell phone and taking frequent, inexplicable swigs from a bottle of lemon juice. Kremen is [...]

'IN CHARITY,' Francis Bacon wrote, 'there is no excess.' But then Bacon never saw Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, which since 2003 has been meting out garish and supersized acts of [...]

In 1941, an Italian civil servant named Felice Benuzzi was captured by Allied forces and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp in East Africa. The camp faced Mount Kenya, 17,000 feet [...]

Byline: BY JON MOOALLEM ILLUSTRATION BY CHRISTOPH NIEMANN THE TALKING DEAD COMMUNICATION FROM BEYOND THE FINAL FRONTIER. One way to imagine dying is like time travel, except instead of journeying [...]

Byline: BY JON MOOALLEM CHRISTOPH NIEMANN MR. KNOW-IT-ALL SMART CRITTERS, SPELLING CHECK, CELL PHONE BREAKS I'm an omnivore, but are there animals that are just too intelligent to eat? During [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDHenry Jolicoeur is a retired French Canadian hypnotherapist and a glass-products importer who enjoys making very low-budget documentary films. In the summer of 2012, Jolicoeur read that Larry Ellison, [...]

PREPARING THE GHOST An Essay Concerning the Giant Squid and Its First Photographer By Matthew Gavin Frank Illustrated. 297 pp. Liveright/Norton. $22.95. In October 1873, 12-year-old Tommy Picco knocked on [...]

One morning in late January, Jacques-Andr Istel woke up at his home in Felicity, Calif., did 100 push-ups and 125 squats, swam in his elegantly lit lap pool, then went [...]

The first time Mike the Hog-a-Nator noticed the ants, they were piled outside his cardiologist's office. This was two summers ago, in Pearland, a suburb of Houston. There was a [...]

MR. KNOW-IT-ALL BY JON MOOALLEM CHRISTOPH NIEMANN MY CREDIT CARD GIVES ME FREQUENT-FLIER MILES. WHY CAN'T I SET UP A PAYPAL ACCOUNT TO CHARGE MYSELF THOUSANDS AND USE THAT SAME [...]

Allen Ostergar stood at the front of the lecture hall with a stiff and bashful smile, or maybe it was just stage fright, and started his pitch. Open on a [...]

The Hawaiian monk seal has wiry whiskers and the deep, round eyes of an apologetic child. The animals will eat a variety of fish and shellfish, or turn over rocks [...]

The monkey appeared behind a Bennigan's. The Bennigan's was one in a row of free-standing, fast-casual joints in Clearwater, Fla., just outside Tampa, that also includes a Panda Express and [...]

Loggerhead nesting season started this year, as usual, in May. Across the northeastern coast of the Gulf of Mexico, female sea turtles began plodding out of the water and up [...]

Byline: BY JON MOOALLEM PHOTOGRAPHS BY Joe Pugliese The Lost Tribes of RadioShack As the Shack turns its back on electronics hobbyists, a generation of tinkerers is left searching for [...]

The Laysan albatross is a downy seabird with a seven-foot wingspan and a notched, pale yellow beak. Every November, a small colony of albatrosses assembles at a place called Kaena [...]

Correction Appended IT ALL STARTED with a brawny, tattooed building contractor with a passion for exotic animals. He was taking biology classes at City College of San Francisco, a two-year [...]

The Umpire was built in 1941 by George and Glenn McElroy, the Ohio brothers considered to be the Stradivariuses of ventriloquist dummies. The figure stands six feet tall and was [...]

Statewide Self Storage spreads out near Highway 4 in Antioch, Calif., a suburban community between San Francisco and Sacramento. It's a phalanx of long, low-slung buildings separated by wide driveways [...]

The stage lights went up at the Panida Theater, a classy old movie house in Sandpoint, Idaho, and the M.C. stepped out of the dark with one finger high in [...]

1. People started gathering at the Lighthouse Missionary Baptist Church in southwestern Kentucky before sunrise. First there were just a few, sealed in their cars with the heat blasting, but [...]

1. THE WORST PART OF THE WHOLE PROJECT Brad Guy started taking apart Cleveland a little after 8 o'clock on a Monday morning in June. Standing in the vandalized dining [...]

Just after sunset on one of the first mild nights of spring, Richard Reynolds parked his hatchback near a traffic circle in the London neighborhood of Hoxton. Tied to his [...]

1. Cellphones in Hell Americans threw out just shy of three million tons of household electronics in 2006. This so-called e-waste is the fastest-growing part of the municipal waste stream [...]

Pete Bils's background is in sales -- or, as he puts it, ''retail concepts.'' He joined Select Comfort 12 years ago to teach its salespeople how to better sell the [...]

It's easy to find, in the mightily expanding iconography of American waste, the monumental (a ziggurat of flattened cars), the sinister (ocher sludge foaming on a riverbank) and the sublime [...]

Peter Acworth is 36 and trim, with a pale, boyish face. He grew up in the English Midlands, the son of a sculptor and a former Jesuit priest, and came [...]

In the proud and punctilious history of purebred dog breeding -- which has policed the sex lives of dogs with unbending vigilance since the Victorian era -- the mongrel has [...]

For 10 days this August,a fresh-faced 41-year-old named Jeffrey Traill trolled Hollywood in his Honda, videotaping pigeons. Pigeons lined the ArcLight theaters near the Walk of Fame, commandeered the roof [...]

Apples to Apples For years, suspicion has been growing in the orchards of the Wenatchee Valley in Washington State and in the food industry at large that fruit, nature's original [...]

Daniel Lippman spent the summer at his parents' house, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, balancing light proofreading duties at the community newspaper with the more demoralizing demands of a grocery-store clerkship. [...]

The article discusses author and memory expert Harry Lorayne's challenging childhood, marked by emotional neglect and physical abuse, which drove him to develop memory techniques. Topics include Lorayne's mastery of memory, his television appearances showcasing name-recognition feats, and his dedication to teaching memory skills through books and educational materials.