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Homunculism

How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed by Ray Kurzweil Viking, 336 pp., $27.95
PUBLISHED: March 21, 2013
LENGTH: 2 minutes (533 words)

Requiem for a Dream

“This, I suppose, is the actual problem,” Swartz wrote, long before his suicide. “I feel my existence is an imposition on the planet.” Illustration by Michael Gillette.
PUBLISHED: March 11, 2013
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1019 words)

Life Inside the Aaron Swartz investigation

A reluctant witness's account of a Federal prosecution. If you haven't been following the case, start with the editor's note for context. Quinn Norton's grand jury subpoena (Quinn Norton). Once your…
PUBLISHED: March 3, 2013
LENGTH: 27 minutes (6857 words)

Sell Out: Part Four

By the time I cart pickles back to Vortex Factory, my roommates are awake. “Herschel’s in the house!” says the green-haired man. “Where’ve you been, killer?”…
AUTHOR:Simon Rich
PUBLISHED: Feb. 1, 2013
LENGTH: 15 minutes (3786 words)
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The Best BuzzFeed Longreads Of 2012

If you're burned out after a long week of talking, or not talking, to your family, or even from looking at adorable photos and GIFs on the Internet, perhaps we could interest you in a select handful…
SOURCE:BuzzFeed

The Brief

This was a great year for strong, in-depth feature articles on the world of technology. Most of us don’t have the time or inclination to keep up with the news on a daily basis and these…
LENGTH: 2 minutes (575 words)

The 25 best reads on the web this year

Each week here at The Verge, we round up some of the best writing around the web, highlighting the stories, profiles, interviews, and ind-depth reporting that rise above the daily churn. And, like…
SOURCE:The Verge
PUBLISHED: Dec. 28, 2012
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2726 words)

The Year We Found Goatse and Visited the KKK: The Best of Gawker's 2012 Longreads

Sometimes, instead of writing 40 words to go along with a viral Internet video, we write many words. Thousands of words, even. Since we do this somewhat frequently, those pieces can be easy to miss.…
SOURCE:gawker.com
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1378 words)

The Top 10 Longreads of 2012

9. The Semplica-Girl Diaries George Saunders | The New Yorker | October 8, 2012 | 35 minutes (8,979 words) A father uses his lottery winnings for an extravagant birthday party for his teenage…
LENGTH: 1 minutes (283 words)
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