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Rami Niemi Why New Zealanders Love DIY Coffins
For the nearly departed, a new bucket-list entry: “Build my casket”
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James Graham People Who Pay People to Kill People
The twisted logic behind hiring a hit man
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James Graham Movie-Prop Cash Is Fooling Cashiers
The strange psychology of why so many people fail to notice obviously counterfeit money
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James Graham Watch Your Wallet
Why pickpockets love our digitally distracted age
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James Graham Why Americans Don’t Cheat on Their Taxes
The weirdly hopeful story of how the U.S. came to be a leader in tax compliance
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James Graham Workplace Theft Is on the Rise
As the line between work and home blurs, office supplies attract sticky fingers.
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James Graham Ending Weed Prohibition Hasn’t Stopped Drug Crimes
Marijuana legalization was supposed to decrease crime—but the reality is more complicated.
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James Graham The Great Virginia Grape Heist
And other tales of agricultural banditry
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James Graham A Shocking Number of Killers Murder Their Co-workers
Homicide is the third-most-prevalent cause of workplace death.
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James Graham The Owl Thieves of Sweden
As the country ditches cash, criminals turn to stealing owls.
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Rami Niemi China’s New Frontiers in Dystopian Tech
Facial-recognition technologies are proliferating, from airports to bathrooms.
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James Graham The Banana Trick and Other Acts of Self-Checkout Thievery
“Anyone who pays for more than half of their stuff in self checkout is a total moron.”
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Rami Niemi Choke-Proof Food That Tastes Like the Real Thing
In Japan, where more people die each year from choking than in traffic accidents, mush is getting a high-tech treatment.
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Marco Goran Romano Big in Venezuela: Bitcoin Mining
Hyperinflation has driven thousands to seek out unorthodox currency.
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Bobby Fischer’s Pathetic Endgame
Paranoia, hubris, and hatred—the unraveling of the greatest chess player ever
