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His Saving Grace -- Chicago Tribune

Sure, workdays at Charlie Trotter’s lasted 14 hours, six days a week, the paycheck was a pittance, and he was fulfilling someone else’s grand culinary vision. But Curtis was surrounded…
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1300 words)

An Open Letter to Wikipedia

I am Philip Roth. I had reason recently to read for the first time the Wikipedia entry discussing my novel “The Human Stain.” The entry contains a serious misstatement that I would like…
PUBLISHED: Sept. 7, 2012
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2631 words)

How Google Builds Its Maps—and What It Means for the Future of Everything

An exclusive look inside Ground Truth, the secretive program to build the world's best accurate maps.Behind every Google Map, there is a much more complex map that's the key to your queries but…
PUBLISHED: Sept. 6, 2012
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2393 words)

Quite Likely the Worst Job Ever

A tosher at work c. 1850 ,sieving raw sewage in one of the dank, dangerous and uncharted sewers beneath the streets of London. From Mayhew’s London Labour and the London Poor. To live in…
AUTHOR:Mike Dash
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3290 words)

The Loves of Lena Dunham

Mark Seliger/HBO Lena Dunham as Hannah Horvath in Girls There are many reasons to love Lena Dunham’s HBO television show Girls, and some of them have nothing to do with sex, but I’m…
PUBLISHED: June 7, 2012
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3742 words)

Future TechStars, Step Forward

Getting into an incubator means money, mentors, and connections. We went inside the application process at a prestigious business incubator. "Oh, boy." "I can't take it seriously." "This is literally…
PUBLISHED: April 2, 2012
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4002 words)

The Outlaw Story of Grand Theft Auto

In 2004, David Kushner's book Masters of Doom provided readers with an unprecedented inside look at id Software and the creation of the industry-shaping first-person shooter Doom. Next month,…
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3229 words)
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