Joselin Linder
The Archive
'Nurse of the Year' opened up her home to a cancer patient
It wasn’t enough that Olivia Chin was fighting cancer: The lifesaving treatments she needed at NYC’s Weill Cornell Myeloma Center meant traveling for more than four hours from her upstate...
This woman knows how she will likely die
JOSELIN LINDER, a 42-year-old writer who lives in Brooklyn with her husband, Aaron, and their dogs, Dee Dee and Orson, was born with a gene unique to her family. It...
Meet the dyslexic spy who almost took down the feds
When FBI special agent Steven Carr opened a package FedExed to him from the FBI’s New York office in December 2000, he assumed it would contain the typical inter-office issue....
These are the most venomous creatures on Earth
Snakes are one of the most feared animals in the world, and no wonder — 100,000 people die every year from poison snakebites. But the slithery serpents aren’t even close...
We need to stop sanitizing everything and let bacteria back in our lives
Dr. Jack Gilbert wants to make our hospitals dirty. His idea runs counter to hundreds of years of scientific practice. Since a surgeon named Joseph Lister became the first to...
Don't read this if you love eating fish
Sixty percent of all the known species on Earth are fish. That’s 33,249 species to be exact — more than all the birds, reptiles and mammals combined. Yet the simple...
Humans love animals more than their own species
Credit: Kimberley O'Connor/ViralHog Dozens watched as a 4-year-old boy fell into the western lowland gorilla enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo last Saturday. Cellphone videos captured the scene. Harambe, a beloved...
Did a homeless man write a massive history of the world?
In 1942, a profile appeared in The New Yorker magazine about a writer named Joe Gould; an often-homeless Harvard expellee who claimed to have written a multimillion-word oral history of...
Teddy Roosevelt started the Museum of Natural History in his bedroom
In 1867, Theodore Roosevelt began what he called the Roosevelt Museum of Natural History. It consisted of 12 specimens that had been carefully preserved and laid out — in his...
Legendary author’s life was more tragic than her fiction
This April the world will celebrate Charlotte Brontë’s 200th birthday. International events are planned: Never-before-seen artifacts will be on display in her childhood home, the BBC will air a drama...
Leonard Nimoy wasn't speaking to William Shatner when he died
When Leonard Nimoy died, he hadn’t spoken to William Shatner in five years. Nimoy shut him out after Shatner filmed him without permission for a documentary he was making about...
When Hunter S. Thompson is your dad, can you have a normal life?
Hunter S. Thompson gained international notoriety when he published his first book, in 1967, about biker gang the Hells Angels. Over multiple chapters, Hunter chronicles wild, drug-fueled parties and ugly...
5 jewels that changed the world
The human body is programmed to reach for what it wants. Brain scans have shown that upon seeing something attractive, the part of our brain in charge of moving our...
Man's incredible survival story: One year free-floating across the Pacific
It’s hard enough to survive being stranded at sea in a small fiberglass vessel longer than any person in recorded history. But it’s even harder to prove your story is...
We could win the War on Cancer -- if only the government would let us
Forty-four years ago, President Richard Nixon declared a War on Cancer. Most people don’t realize it, but we’ve already won it, says Dr. Vincent DeVita. In his new book, “The...
Snooki got hot, what's your excuse?
During the summer of 2010, a very drunk Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi, then 22, face-planted on a New Jersey beach. She was later arrested as cameras rolled for her popular MTV...
Twins build drug empire with help from doctors, strippers
Late in 2007, Chris George, a 27-year-old former convict with no medical training, opened his first pain pill clinic in South Florida. With no laws to stop him, George and...
Inside the search for the legendary 'Orpheus Clock' stolen by the Nazis
Last week, two men announced they had found a legendary treasure buried in Poland: a Nazi train stuffed with stolen gold, jewels, gems and works of art. The train had...
Experts warn women not to follow Angelina when it comes to genes
In 2011, Elle Newnan was 37 and pregnant with her second child, a girl. She underwent a routine genetics test, common for women old enough to be considered high-risk. It...
How Joan of Arc saved France and became a legend
Joan of Arc may have died half a millennium ago — but the 19-year-old French maid-turned-military leader has remained an obsession. She’s become anything her fans want her to be:...