I was on KPFA this morning, talking about transformers: kpfa.org/player/?audi...
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Christopher Cox
@cwhe.bsky.social
Writer and editor, NYTM and NYM. Signal: christophercox.01
"He’s styled himself as an investor of unusual savvy. He brags about real estate, oil wells, gold mines, Wagyu beef: 'I don’t kill the cattle,' he tells me. 'I sell the semen. So there’s cash flow and semen flow.'" www.vanityfair.com/story/the-wi...
The Wild Origins of ‘Rich Dad, Poor Dad’
Robert Kiyosaki says he’s more than a billion dollars in debt. Didn’t he read his own book?
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terrific caper story by Nathaniel Rich — drawn from research for his novel Cloud Thief which comes out tomorrow: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/12/m...
How a Gang of Thieves Pulled Off a Multimillion-Dollar Data Center Heist
The world’s most valuable assets are stored on rows of servers in giant, anonymous buildings. And they can be stolen.
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Congratulations to this year’s winners of the Matthew Power award. I can’t wait to read these stories. www.nyu.edu/about/news-p...
I wrote about how the eugenics debate was masking a simpler reality: these tests just aren’t that reliable. nymag.com/intelligence...
Can You Really Choose Your ‘Best Baby’?
Silicon Valley-backed companies are selling $50,000 genetic tests to anxious parents, despite shaky science.
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This story by @kerryhowley.bsky.social , my last as an editor for New York, is worth your time.
New York Magazine@nymag.com · 7mo agoCould the deaths at Camp Mystic have been prevented? Twenty-seven girls died in a Texas flood, dividing a community over whether it was an act of God or the fault of camp leadership.
If you like the song Zojirushi rice cookers play when the rice is ready, here is a Spotify link of Robert Armbruster performing it: open.spotify.com/track/5xlQks...
Amaryllis (Air De Louis XIII) - Duo-Art 62746
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Writers! Applications for the Matthew Power Literary Reporting Award are open. This year, we've increased the prize to $15,000 to account for the higher cost of pasta. Apply now: journalism.nyu.edu/about-us/awa...
Matthew Power Literary Reporting Award - NYU Journalism
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"The Sacagawea found in the oral histories of the Hidatsas is both grander and humbler — more like a person, less like a symbol — than the one taught in schools." — @cwhe.bsky.social for The New York Times Magazine
What if Everything We Know About Sacagawea Is Wrong?
A growing body of evidence suggests she might have survived into old age — which would entirely change the story of America’s most iconic Native forebear.
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I wrote about Sacagawea and the Hidatsa tribe, which has marshaled some compelling evidence that she lived 57 years longer than mainstream historians say she did. (And died of a gunshot wound.) This story also has my favorite final paragraph I've ever written. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/m...
What if Everything We Know About Sacagawea Is Wrong?
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I wrote about Sacagawea and the Hidatsa tribe, which has marshaled some compelling evidence that she lived 57 years longer than mainstream historians say she did. (And died of a gunshot wound.) This story also has my favorite final paragraph I've ever written. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/m...
What if Everything We Know About Sacagawea Is Wrong?
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Wells Tower wrote about lost luggage, just in time for Lost Luggage Day: www.thecut.com/article/wher...
Your Lost Suitcase Is Probably in Alabama
We found your bag! And everyone else’s lost luggage.
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English words that are like German words (information-dense and literal): brainchild, plaything, fireplace.
"'I got into forestry to get away from people,' he said. Now he is working in the biggest city in the country." Robert Sullivan upending some conventional wisdom about forests and forestry. www.curbed.com/article/beec...
Good News About Beech Leaf Disease
The city’s forests may be in trouble, but scientists have developed some ingenious ways to save them.
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Language question: Is the use of “search up” (instead of “look up” or “search for”) confined to Gen Alpha or does Gen Z use it as well?
This article from @cwhe.bsky.social is a great depiction of the state of H5N1 in US cows, and how we got here. Closing line "The only thing keeping us safe, for now, is the virus itself" nymag.com/intelligence...
Can Anything Stop Bird Flu?
The longer we allow the virus to run rampant through animal populations, the greater our chances of disaster.
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What’s it’s like to be the only home standing in a neighborhood that burned: “I don’t ever want to see my house again. It’s a toxic-waste dump. My community is gone. It’s just a curse that my house is there.” nymag.com/intelligence...
‘My Community Is Gone. It’s Just a Curse That My House Is There.’
City workers and celebrities, teachers and tycoons talk about what they lost in the Los Angeles fires — and how they’ll rebuild.
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My wife got me a book on how to identify warblers by their songs, and each entry has a phrase to help you remember the rhythm of each bird’s call. The Colima warbler’s phrase is: “A colander of lima beans, dripping quickly and evenly, then dumped out.”
S.E. Hinton: I have had many strange things happen in my life. New York Times: Thank you, no follow-up question.
Number games: 2025 is the last time the square root of the year will be an integer until 2116. The last time it happened was 1936. Those turning 45 next year will share an honor with those turning 44 in 1936 or 46 in 2116. The 1936 cohort is dead. Will anyone from the 2025 group be alive in 2116?
An early reminder to apply for the Matthew Power award, which provides $12,500 to support a longform journalism project. Deadline is February 19: journalism.nyu.edu/about-us/awa...
Matthew Power Literary Reporting Award - NYU Journalism
Matthew Power was an award-winning journalist who reported empathetically on the human […]
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