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The Idealist

Aaron Swartz at a Boston Wiki Meetup on Aug. 19, 2009 Photo by Sage Ross/Flickr/Wikimedia Commons On Jan.
PUBLISHED: Feb. 7, 2013
LENGTH: 58 minutes (14593 words)

Cocaine Incorporated

One afternoon last August, at a hospital on the outskirts of Los Angeles, a former beauty queen named Emma Coronel gave birth to a pair of heiresses. The twins, who were delivered at 3:50 and 3:51,…
PUBLISHED: June 15, 2012
LENGTH: 30 minutes (7640 words)

Inside The Russian Short Wave Radio Enigma

Somewhere in Russia a signal of mysterious beeps and buzzes has broadcast since the high-water days of the Cold War. But why?Photo: Sergey Kozmin From a lonely rusted tower in a…
PUBLISHED: Sept. 27, 2011
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3613 words)
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