April 2012
4 posts
The Nets and NBA Economics →
A Week With the New Jersey Nets
In which we see how a mediocre NBA franchise prepares for the season.
Dr. Don
In which we see how a small business might be able to make it in America.
I Dated A Zombie
In which we see that most dating sites really are too good to be true.
March 2012
3 posts
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A Pryor Love
In which we learn how black people really feel about Whitey.
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Pie in the Sky
In which we learn what happens when a single person tries to transport theocracy to America.
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Crimetown USA
In which we learn that being shameless sometimes pays off.
January 2012
4 posts
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The Monster of Florence →
In which we see a reporter fall down the rabbit hole of an old case.
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The Brand →
In which we see how dangerous the Aryan Brotherhood can be.
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Slugging: The People's Transit →
In which people create their own system to get to the path of least resistance.
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The Lobster Underground
In which the battle between the government and tasty food comes to light.
December 2011
13 posts
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Sticklers For Procedure
In which we see corruption taking the lives of innocent people.
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Doing Time on Norway's Island Prison
In which we see how an alternative form of prison might work.
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The Megacity
In which we see how humans can create order out of chaos.
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The Unsolved Mystery of the Notorious B.I.G.
In which we see how rotten the official institutions in Los Angeles are.
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The Mystery of Pearl Street
Where commerce triumphs history and obsession.
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Zaire Paige Not Only Played a Movie Killer, He...
In which we learn that a leopard never changes its spots.
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Allen Iverson: Fallen Star
In which we see what happens after an athlete exhausts everyone’s patience.
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For Law Schools, A Price To Play the A.B.A.'s Way
In which we see that like everything else about the law, school accreditation is all about money.
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The "Book" On Prince Fielder
In which we are able to peer into Scott Boras’ bag of tricks.
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Tux Life: Beyond a Reasonable Doubt →
essdogg:
I’ve spent the better part of the week serving as the foreman for a jury in a criminal case. As they tell you, you’re not allowed to talk about it with anyone, not even your fellow jurors, during the trial. As they also tell you, once the trial is over you can talk about anything you want. So,…
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City of Fear
In which we see that people will create their own systems when there are no official ones.
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$1 Billion That Nobody Wants
In which we learn that Americans won’t change if they don’t want to.
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Funny money: How counterfeiting led to a major...
In which Canadians try to get ahead of international criminals.
November 2011
1 post
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The durable Mike Malloy
In 1933, Anthony Marino, Joe Murphy, Frank Pasqua and Dan Kriesberg decided to make money by taking out life insurance on drunks and then letting the victims drink themselves to death. Then they encountered Mike Malloy…
October 2011
5 posts
2 tags
Giving The FBI What It Wants: Man gives FBI all...
In which Big Brother gets everything and nothing it wants at the same time.
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Confessions of a Naked Sushi Model
In which the objectification of women is taken to an extreme.
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The Search For a More Perfect Kilogram
In which old methods are outdated but the new methods are not quite ready for primetime.
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Inside the Russian Short Wave Enigma
In which some of the Cold War’s mysteries remain inscrutable.
Kei Igawa- The Lost Yankee: Kei Igawa exists in...
In which we learn that the easy road is not always the one that is chosen.
September 2011
8 posts
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$2 a Word? Chump Change!: With Byliner and...
In which being an author might finally become lucrative.
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Trust Issues: Lawyer tries to control the world...
In which the real life Jarndyce v. Jarndyce is thwarted by the country’s bureaucracy.
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The Man Who Could Unsnarl Manhattan Traffic
In which we explore what sorts of economic incentives motivate people to stop driving.
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One Bad Cop: More About Rafael Perez and the LAPD...
In which we learn more about how power corrupts in Los Angeles.
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L.A. Confidential: The story of the turmoil caused...
In which we see what happened to the real life Dutch Wagenbach
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The Los Angeles police scandal and its social...
In which we see what happens when dirty cops run amok. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4
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The Anatomy of a Spam: The author investigates the...
In which the author finds that the author of a spam email is even shadier than imagined.
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In The Sorting Office: The problems with mail...
In which we see that privatization of public services doesn’t always go well.
August 2011
14 posts
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9/11: The Tapping- The U.S.'s missed opportunity...
In which the intelligence community has more egg thrown upon its face.
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Gene and the Machine: The shocking truth about the...
In which a food critic reviews a car, and is much better at it than most car reviewers.
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Exam Village: A community where test takers live...
In which we learn that perhaps Americans don’t have that much pressure in their lives after all.
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Insane Clown Posse: And God created controversy
In which Insane Clown Posse gets the last laugh on the rest of us.
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Sex Sells: Young, ambitious Seth Warshavsky is the...
In which we learn about the early days of Internet porn.
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It’s the Economy, Dummkopf!: Michael Lewis on...
In which we learn of the German economy and the national obsession with feces.
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When We Were Young: In the Golden Age of ASCII,...
In which we see how computers were seen by the earliest programmers.
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Hard Core: Porn reveals the difference between...
In which the writer overanalyzes porn and its effects.
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The tortured life of Eric Show
In which a baseball player who’s different meets an untimely end.
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Intent To Harm: Police try to prosecute nurses...
In which the system tries to punish whistleblowers and is rebuffed.
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High-end items for Detroit office bought with...
The Human Services Department in Detroit awarded a $1.2 million no-bid contract to a nonprofit named Clark & Associates. The Department then used $210,000 of the money to buy high end office furniture. Mayor Dave Bing fired two of the managers, but allowed director Shenetta Coleman to remain with the Department. Coleman was appointed by former mayor Kwame Kilpatrick.
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Inmate's huge credit-card scam unravels when Bath...
In which a man with a name like Dimorio proves to be a lot more clever than we would think.