This Company Buys Every CD, DVD And Video Game You Don't Want Anymore

Someone once gave me a CD of heavy metal Hanukkah songs called Gods of Fire. It was funny for a minute. Then it sat on a shelf for years, because I didn’t want to throw it away and it’s not like anyone on eBay would buy it from me, but I finally found a taker. The new company Decluttr paid me $2.85 for it, which, when combined...

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What's The Best Way To Execute Someone?

German Gen. Anton Dostler is tied to a stake before his execution by a firing squad in Italy in December 1945. Is it time to bring back this method of capital punishment?Photo courtesy National Archives and Records Administration/Colourized...

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How The Marathon Bombing Manhunt Really Happened

Adapted from Long Mile Home: Boston Under Attack, the City’s Courageous Recovery, and the Epic Hunt for Justice by Scott Helman and Jenna Russell, to be published by Dutton, a member of Penguin Group (USA) LLC, a Penguin Random House company, on April 1. Copyright 2014, Boston Globe Media Partners, LLC. DAWN BROKE FRIDAY on a...

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The Inside Story Of How Facebook Got Oculus VR

A whole new world An early prototype for the Oculus Rift, which raised $2.4 million on Kickstarter Courtesy of Oculus VR To understand why Oculus Rift matters, it helps to know who John Carmack is. You already know his work, even if you don’t know his name: Carmack is the programmer who in the early 1990s cracked...

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A Field Report From Malaria’s Cradle Of Drug Resistance

Aurich Lawson In the war against malaria, one small corner of the globe has repeatedly turned the tide, rendering our best weapons moot and medicine on the brink of defeat. Ed Yong reports from the remote border outpost where scientists are making a last stand. The meandering Moei River marks the natural boundary...

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The Brutal Ageism Of Tech

“I have more botox in me than any ten people,” Dr. Seth Matarasso told me in an exam room this February.He is a reality-show producer’s idea of a cosmetic surgeonâ€"his demeanor brash, his bone structure preposterous. Over the course of our hour-long conversation, he would periodically fire questions...

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