The Big Mother Shucker

The best way to shuck a lobster? 87,000 pounds of water. A piece for Wired on hyperbaric pressure processing (Warning: contents under extremely high pressure).

Detroit’s Top Dog

A couple doors down from the Lafayette, a now-demolished building in downtown Detroit, I squeeze into Lafayette Coney Island and take a swivel seat.

The Confusing Chemistry of Hot Dogs, Explained

Even uncured, “nitrate-free” meats contain nitrates. So do many raw vegetables. And these chemicals probably aren’t the most compelling reason to pass up a hot dog.

Richard Russo

Wherein the author discusses the language of Hollywood, book publishing technology, Downeast accents, real estate, hot sex, and the Pulitzer Prize.

Randy Regier

The artist’s dreams are rendered in a toystore full of custom, grayscale toys steeped with longing and desire—his totally handspun, totally Space Age take on reality.

Habib Dagher

Habib Dagher developed bridges that can fit inside backpacks. Now, he’s heading up research on an offshore energy project in the “Saudi Arabia of wind.”