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Deconstructing Larry: Defections and Lawsuits Chip Gagosian’s Enamel

‘When somebody’s the king of the world, nobody wants to alienate them, but the minute people start to defect, they all start piling on.’ Illustration by Amy Melson Tom…
AUTHOR:Aaron Gell
PUBLISHED: Dec. 18, 2012
LENGTH: 15 minutes (3950 words)

What’s a Store For?

The new shoe floor of Barneys New York. The elevator door opened in the Sutton Place penthouse of Richard Perry, the hedge-fund manager, and there he stood in the white foyer wearing a black knit…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 13, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (802 words)

Can a Jellyfish Unlock the Secret of Immortality?

The "immortal jellyfish" can transform itself back into a polyp and begin life anew. After more than 4,000 years — almost since the dawn of recorded time, when Utnapishtim told Gilgamesh that the…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 28, 2012
LENGTH: 26 minutes (6581 words)

I Really Like That You Like What I Like

The Internet, like your dentist’s assistant, is never kinder than when disaster strikes. On normal days, the kind on which you glide across an afternoon on too much coffee and a midweek buzz…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 18, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (843 words)

How I learned a language in 22 hours

Joshua Foer: 'What if, instead of tabbing over to the web browser in search of some nugget of gossip or news, we could scratch the itch by engaging in a meaningful activity, such as learning a…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 9, 2012
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3523 words)

Hacking the President’s DNA

This is how the future arrived. It began innocuously, in the early 2000s, when businesses started to realize that highly skilled jobs formerly performed in-house, by a single employee, could more…
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1619 words)

The Patent, Used as a Sword

When Apple announced last year that all iPhones would come with a voice-activated assistant named Siri, capable of answering spoken questions, Michael Phillips’s heart sank. For three decades, Mr.…
PUBLISHED: Oct. 7, 2012
LENGTH: 18 minutes (4664 words)

Cyborg America: inside the strange new world of basement body hackers

Shawn Sarver took a deep breath and stared at the bottle of Listerine on the counter. “A minty fresh feeling for your mouth... cures bad breath,” he repeated to himself, as the scalpel…
AUTHOR:Ben Popper
SOURCE:The Verge
PUBLISHED: Aug. 8, 2012
LENGTH: 15 minutes (3887 words)

Cheap, Chic, And Made For All: How Uniqlo Plans To Take Over Casual Fashion

Uniqlo founder Yanai uses design and technology to improve upon classic American sportswear--and now he wants to sell it back to Americans. | Photo by Kareem Black On a drizzly Wednesday afternoon in…
AUTHOR:Jeff Chu
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4137 words)
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