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Journalist @statnews. Trad fiddler. Formerly @PittsburghPG @mtlgazette. Always happy to hear your story ideas! eric.boodman@globe.com
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The Sims Creator’s Audacious Quest to Turn His (and Your) Own Mind Into a Video Game

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By Eric Boodman Verified
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Will Wright started Proxi in 2015. It’s nowhere close to finished. This article was featured in New York’s One Great Story newsletter. Sign up here. When he was about 5 or 6, Will Wright nearly drowned in a vat of plastic. It was on a weekend at his father’s factory in Atlanta. His dad needed to pop in to check something, and what caught Will’s eye was a large drum of polyethylene pellets, the raw bits that get melted down and stretched into plastic wrap and plastic bags.
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The Sims Creator’s Audacious Quest to Turn His (and Your) Own Mind Into a Video Game

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By Eric Boodman Verified
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5 hours ago Sometimes we have to reschedule Tiny Desks. And sometimes it can take a while to get a band back on our calendar. In the case of Mumford & Sons, it took 13 years. Back when the band was touring its sophomore full-length, Babel, the trio from London was set to play the Desk in NPR's old (and …
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In this issue: ‘Camp Is Even More Beautiful in Heaven’

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By Eric Boodman Verified, Casey Quackenbush Verified, Kerry Howley Verified
| New York Magazine Verified
The counselors and campers of Bubble Inn. No one in the cabin survived the 2025 floods. Top row (from left): Chloe Childress, Margaret Bellows, Lila Bonner, Molly DeWitt, Ellen Getten, Janie Hunt, Lainey Landry, and Katherine Ferruzzo. Bottom: Sarah Marsh, Linnie McCown, Wynne Naylor, Eloise Peck, Abby Pohl, Renee Smajstrla, and Mary Stevens.
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