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Out in the Great Alone

I landed in Anchorage in the middle of the night. The next morning, I drove an hour north to Wolf Lake Airport, a private airfield near Wasilla. You know those old photo-backdrop screens that little…
LENGTH: 18 minutes (4720 words)

For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From All Human Contact, Unaware of World War II

Siberian summers do not last long. The snows linger into May, and the cold weather returns again during September, freezing the taiga into a still life awesome in its desolation: endless miles of…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 31, 2013
LENGTH: 27 minutes (6897 words)

Redesigning Google: how Larry Page engineered a beautiful revolution

The new Google way is weird, but it's working By Dieter Bohn and Ellis Hamburger Something strange and remarkable started happening at Google immediately after Larry Page took full control as CEO in…
SOURCE:The Verge
PUBLISHED: Jan. 24, 2013
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3174 words)

How Google and Apple's digital mapping is mapping us

All mapped out … 'There's a fine line between this being really useful and it being creepy' Over the last few years, at the kinds of conferences where the world's technological elite gathers to…
PUBLISHED: Aug. 28, 2012
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2058 words)

Caballo Blanco’s Last Run: The Micah True Story

When Micah True went missing on a run, the search for him eventually turned to a section of Little Creek in the Gila Wilderness, near Silver City, N.M. More Photos » GILA HOT SPRINGS, N.M. — Micah…
PUBLISHED: May 20, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (796 words)
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The Maturation of the Billionaire Boy-Man

(Photo: Paul Sakuma/AP/Corbis. Illustration by Steven Noble.) If all goes as planned, Facebook will finally pull the trigger later this month on its long-salivated-over IPO. The deal could value the…
SOURCE:nymag.com
PUBLISHED: May 6, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (788 words)

Machine Politics

Radical hackers took up Hotz’s fight, although he never considered himself a cause.
PUBLISHED: May 7, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (959 words)
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Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?

Yvette Vickers, a former Playboy playmate and B-movie star, best known for her role in Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, would have been 83 last August, but nobody knows exactly how old she was when she…
LENGTH: 21 minutes (5296 words)

Good Things About Twitter

Several light-years ago in Web time, Jonathan Franzen spoke at Tulane University and said that he found Twitter “unspeakably irritating,” expressing a concern for “serious readers…
PUBLISHED: March 22, 2012
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1164 words)
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