The man who invented exercise

Source: Financial Times
Published: Sep 11, 2009
Length: 16 minutes (4,074 words)

End State

Is California finished?

Published: Oct 26, 2009
Length: 33 minutes (8,405 words)

Robots That Care

Advances in technological therapy.

Source: The New Yorker
Published: Nov 2, 2009
Length: 21 minutes (5,472 words)

The Indecider

About New York’s governorship, as about so much in his recent political career, Rudy Giuliani can’t fully, wholeheartedly make up his mind.

Published: Oct 25, 2009
Length: 11 minutes (2,863 words)

A Place Where Cancer Is the Norm

Some 90,000 patients and their families arrive in Houston at the world’s largest freestanding cancer hospital from around the world, often leaving behind jobs and stashing children with relatives for months. Some rent apartments or stay in mobile home parks near the hospital.

Published: Oct 24, 2009
Length: 11 minutes (2,838 words)

On the Waterfront

The Gowanus Canal runs one and a half miles through brownstone Brooklyn, cutting a disreputable gash between two of the most desirable residential neighborhoods in New York City. Sunken below street level, no more than 100 feet across at most points, the canal does not really flow — it skulks.

Published: Oct 21, 2009
Length: 29 minutes (7,354 words)

Mark Zuckerberg on how to build hacker culture inside a company

For the first two years, the only advice he gave me was don’t mess it up. The YCombinator motto is build something that people want. We were never that great at building a company. Now we’ve built this sort of hacker culture. Early on, we were clueless. All of this came from having users and serving them well and growing at a sustainable rate.

Source: VentureBeat
Published: Oct 24, 2009
Length: 21 minutes (5,294 words)

Why California is Still America’s Future

Source: Time
Published: Oct 23, 2009
Length: 17 minutes (4,274 words)

Hope Springs Eternal

Assessing a young presidency. Barack Obama campaigned as a populist firebrand but governs like a cerebral consensus builder. The founding fathers wouldn’t have it any other way.

Source: Newsweek
Published: Oct 24, 2009
Length: 11 minutes (2,933 words)

Growing season

Galvanized by the local food movement, 20-somethings are turning to small farms to make a fresh start

Author: Mara Lee
Source: Washington Post
Published: Oct 25, 2009
Length: 9 minutes (2,492 words)