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Global Warming's Terrifying New Math

Illustration by Edel Rodriguez If the pictures of those towering wildfires in Colorado haven't convinced you, or the size of your AC bill this summer, here are some hard numbers about climate change:…
PUBLISHED: July 19, 2012
LENGTH: 24 minutes (6239 words)

Global Warming's Terrifying New Math

A wildfire in Colorado Marc Piscotty/Getty Images If the pictures of those towering wildfires in Colorado haven't convinced you, or the size of your AC bill this summer, here are some hard numbers…
PUBLISHED: July 19, 2012
LENGTH: 24 minutes (6242 words)

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A Dog Named Humphrey

When the opportunity to appear on the teen drama Gossip Girl came my way, I felt like I had won a contest. Not a contest it would have occurred to me to enter, but the type of contest of which I am…
LENGTH: 18 minutes (4590 words)

How Mark Zuckerberg Hacked the Valley

In 2006, when he was 22, Mark Zuckerberg gave up writing computer code to focus on managing his rapidly growing startup. Like Jim Brown retiring from football at 29 or E.M. Forster abandoning the…
PUBLISHED: May 17, 2012
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3717 words)

Documents Show How Goldman et al Engaged in 'Naked Short Selling' | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone

It doesn’t happen often, but sometimes God smiles on us. Last week, he smiled on investigative reporters everywhere, when the lawyers for Goldman, Sachs slipped on one whopper of a legal…
PUBLISHED: May 15, 2012
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1828 words)
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How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet

Web startups are made out of two things: people and code. The people make the code, and the code makes the people rich. Code is like a poem; it has to follow certain structural requirements, and yet…
LENGTH: 21 minutes (5345 words)

How Wall Street Killed Financial Reform

President Barack Obama signs the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act alongside members of Congress in 2010. ROD LAMKEY JR/AFP/Getty Images Two years ago, when he signed the…
PUBLISHED: May 10, 2012
LENGTH: 26 minutes (6659 words)
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