Will Storr
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The Death of a Dreamer
The following is a lightly adapted extract from Will Storr’s latest book Selfie: How We Became So Self-Obsessed and What It’s Doing to Us, Picador (June 15, 2017), 416 pages. Imagine that it were possible to create the perfect human. The process would be like making an app, but instead of computer code, your design language would be DNA. You’d do the creating itself on your smartphone—using a… → Read More
What's behind this crippling plague of perfectionism?
We’re living in an age of perfectionism, yet it is far less flawless world than we might have believed. → Read More
The Conjuring 2: what really happened during the Enfield Haunting?
How the haunting began, Janet couldn’t exactly recall. → Read More
Cut from G.O.P. Convention, Tebow Hopes to Catch On with Other Political Party
But even as the former N.F.L. quarterback asserted, “I still have a lot of speaking left in me,” insiders expressed skepticism. → Read More
The Horrific, Predictable Result of a Widely Armed Citizenry
The killings in Dallas are one more reminder that guns are central, not accessory, to the American plague of violence. → Read More
Is Gentrification Really a Problem?
What the American ghetto reveals about the ethics and economics of changing neighborhoods. → Read More
The real-life exorcist behind Midwinter of the Spirit
Possession, hauntings and poltergeists exist, says the Church of England "deliverance minister" who advises on the ITV drama → Read More
Why Men Kill Themselves
In every country in the world, male suicides outnumber female. Will Storr asks why. → Read More
"I own 200-300 original pieces". Meet the Star Wars super-fans hunting the earth for lost props
Meet the Star Wars super-fans travelling the world hunting props from the original film set. Theyâve been on greater adventures than you could possibly imagine. → Read More
James Randi: debunking the king of the debunkers
James Randi, star sceptic and subject of the documentary An Honest Liar, is dedicated to exposing magicians and spoonbenders. Is he guilty of a little sleight of hand himself? → Read More
Hollow Earth conspiracy theories: the hole truth
For centuries, Hollow Earth conspiracy theorists have tried to prove that there’s a whole other world beneath our own. But first they need to find the way in... → Read More
Is everything we know about wine wrong?
Every year, judges give out medals to the world’s best wines. But an undercover investigator is questioning their taste buds and asking if ‘connoisseurs’ even exist → Read More
Who looks after sick owls at Christmas?
Epileptic badgers; injured deer; and a deluge of hedgehogs: Will Storr visits St Tiggywinkles Wildlife Hospital as it prepares for Christmas → Read More
Financial astrology: can the stars affect stocks? - Telegraph
Financial astrologers believe the position of the planets can make a share price plummet. Why do many traders trust them? → Read More
The 9/11 conspiracy theorist who changed his mind
Charlie Veitch was once one of Britain’s leading conspiracy theorists, a friend of David Icke and Alex Jones and a 9/11 'truther'. But when he had a change of heart, the threats began. He talks to Will Storr. → Read More
Bulldozers home in on historic prefab estate
The battle to preserve Britain’s largest surviving estate of post-war prefab houses is over → Read More