Redeem now Around 3 o'clock in the morning on Sunday, as I sipped golden milk and watched a chess game beside a geodesic dome where revelers danced shoulder-to-shoulder beneath a propane jet shooting constant waves of flame, not long after an intimidatingly high-energy stranger had power-washed my friends' and my buttocks to the rhythm of thumping techno, I came to a conclusion: Burning Man wasn't completely ruined. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers.

Mad River By John Sandford Purchase BookPurchase close overlay Buy Featured Book TitleMad RiverAuthorJohn Sandford Your purchase helps support NPR programming. How? iBooks Independent Bookstores John Sandford has written his own five-foot shelf of novels and thrillers, most of them as part of the "Prey" series. Almost all of the books are set in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. His cast of characters has changed and shifted somewhat over time, but largely features Minnesota cops.

Stage Fright Not all video-game levels are created easily. Stage Fright Not all video-game levels are created easily. For most people, there’s a simple solution when they’re confronted with a video game they don’t enjoy playing: They stop. That’s less of an option for me, being that I make my living writing about games. It becomes even trickier when the maker of the game I dislike — and its entire gameplay philosophy — grow widely admired over the course of a decade, gaining a legion of fans and influencing a whole subgenre of games that follow.

Celebrity / TV JoJo Siwa may be a household name these days, but plenty of her loyal fans (often called Siwanatorz) first got to know her on Dance Moms. Dance Moms is a hit Lifetime reality TV show that centers around the Abby Lee Dance Company Junior Elite Competition Team. Led by the infamous Abby Lee Miller, the … Published on May 19, 2020 3 min read JoJo Siwa may be a household name these days, but plenty of her loyal fans (often called Siwanatorz) first got to know her on Dance Moms.

Workers in China have earned a victory over employers' onerous work schedules, as the Supreme People's Court says a common schedule that requires people to work 12 hours a day for six days a week is illegal. In recent years, several worker deaths have been linked to such schedules, which are common in the tech industry and in other sectors, such as logistics. One case highlighted in the high court's recent decision revolves around a man named Zhang.