Articles Tweeted

Newest Picks

Bringing Them Back to Life

On July 30, 2003, a team of Spanish and French scientists reversed time. They brought an animal back from extinction, if only to watch it become extinct again. The animal they revived was a kind of…
PUBLISHED: April 19, 2013
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3615 words)

Generation Why?

Merrick Morton/Columbia Pictures Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, and Rooney Mara as his girlfriend Erica in The Social Network How long is a generation these days? I must…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 25, 2010
LENGTH: 22 minutes (5690 words)

Utopian for Beginners

Quijada’s invented language has two seemingly incompatible ambitions: to be maximally precise but also maximally concise. Photograph by Dan Winters. There are so
PUBLISHED: Dec. 24, 2012
LENGTH: 36 minutes (9011 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)

Cocaine, Incorporated

One afternoon last August, at a hospital on the outskirts of Los Angeles, a former beauty queen named Emma Coronel gave birth to a pair of heiresses. The twins, who were delivered at 3:50 and 3:51,…
PUBLISHED: June 15, 2012
LENGTH: 30 minutes (7640 words)

The Proxy Marriage

William was tall and thin and shy and awkward in school. His best social tool was that he played the piano, and so was recruited for school musicals, which placed him at rehearsals and cast parties…
PUBLISHED: May 21, 2012
LENGTH: 25 minutes (6300 words)

Nicholas Thompson, newyorker.com editor: 'our capacity to absorb information is growing'

Nicholas Thompson's a busy guy. He's the newly-appointed editor of newyorker.com, the website companion to The New Yorker. He's also co-founder of The Atavist, an ASME-nominated company experimenting…
SOURCE:The Verge
PUBLISHED: May 4, 2012
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1369 words)

incredible stories of the boys who walked to Europe

Behind the security bars of a spartan, white-tiled room, 25 youths are arranging bedrolls on the floor. The workers on the Salvation Army nightshift, who watch over these lone foreign teenagers in a…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 29, 2012
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2797 words)

Transformation And Transcendence: The Power Of Female Friendship

In 1997 I arrived in Geneva to work for a year at the headquarters of a relief organization. Feeling overwhelmed by my job and lonely in a city of overworked expats passing through for two to three…
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2583 words)
}