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Magic Mountain
"Magic Mountain" is a famous 2012 article by The New Yorker staff writer Nick Paumgarten, detailing the annual World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos, Switzerland. It provides a sharp, witty look at the global elite and corporate speed-dating at 5,000 feet.
Magic Mountain
The Long Flight to Teach an Endangered Ibis Species to Migrate
The Long Flight to Teach an Endangered Ibis Species to Migrate
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The Message of Measles
The Message of Measles
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Inside the Cultish Dreamworld of Augusta National
Inside the Cultish Dreamworld of Augusta National
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Magic Mountain
Magic Mountain
"Magic Mountain" is a famous 2012 article by The New Yorker staff writer Nick Paumgarten, detailing the annual World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos, Switzerland. It provides a sharp, witty look at the global elite and corporate speed-dating at 5,000 feet.
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The Long Flight to Teach an Endangered Ibis Species to Migrate
The Long Flight to Teach an Endangered Ibis Species to Migrate
Our devastation of nature is so extreme that reversing even a small part of it requires painstaking, quixotic efforts, Nick Paumgarten writes.
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The Message of Measles
The Message of Measles
As public-health officials confront the largest outbreak in the U.S. in decades, they’ve been fighting as much against dangerous ideas as they have against the disease, Nick Paumgarten writes.
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Inside the Cultish Dreamworld of Augusta National
Inside the Cultish Dreamworld of Augusta National
The home of the Masters Tournament is a prelapsarian golf paradise, combining good manners and Southern delights with exclusion and self-satisfaction, Nick Paumgarten writes.
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Berlin Nights
Berlin Nights
Nick Paumgarten travels to Berlin, Germany, to explore night clubs and experience the city’s techno scene.
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Looking for Someone
Looking for Someone
Nick Paumgarten on Internet dating, from its beginnings as computerized quizzes to its current incarnation in the form of apps and Web sites like Match.
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Master of Play
Master of Play
From 2010: Nick Paumgarten’s Profile of Shigeru Miyamoto, the man behind many of Nintendo’s best-known video games, including Mario and Donkey Kong.
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The Death of Kings
The Death of Kings
Nick Paumgarten on the warning signs that preceded the global financial crisis of 2008, and why they were ignored.
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Up and Then Down
Up and Then Down
Nick Paumgarten’s 2008 story about a Nicholas White, who got stuck on an elevator, and the history of elevators and city life.
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The Mannahatta Project
The Mannahatta Project
“The Mannahatta Project” by Nick Paumgarten was published in the print edition of the October 1, 2007, issue of The New Yorker.
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There and Back Again
There and Back Again
“There and Back Again” by Nick Paumgarten was published in the print edition of the April 16, 2007, issue of The New Yorker.
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