Inside the Dyson Dynasty

A profile of the family behind the British technology company that designs and manufactures vacuum cleaners, fans and more.

Source: Financial Times
Published: Apr 10, 2015
Length: 15 minutes (3,755 words)

How Israel Hid Its Secret Nuclear Weapons Program

Newly declassified documents help shed light on the Eisenhower-era story of how Israel hid their secret nuclear project in the Negev Desert.

Source: Politico
Published: Apr 15, 2015
Length: 16 minutes (4,150 words)

The Nun’s Story

The Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk was a bestselling book about sexual abuse in a convent, and it became one of the great literary frauds of the 19th century.

Published: Apr 17, 2015
Length: 7 minutes (1,760 words)

​The Girl Who Would Live Forever

The story of the youngest person ever to be cryonically frozen.

Source: Vice Magazine
Published: Apr 16, 2015
Length: 12 minutes (3,100 words)

Is Slack Really Worth $2.8 Billion? A Conversation With Stewart Butterfield

With his startup Slack raising $160 million on a valuation of nearly $3 billion, CEO Stewart Butterfield offers a brutally honest assessment of VC funding and the state of tech startups.

Published: Apr 16, 2015
Length: 6 minutes (1,600 words)

Being Ringo: A Beatle’s All-Starr Life

After five decades, Richard Starkey is finally getting his solo moment in the sun.

Source: Rolling Stone
Published: Apr 15, 2015
Length: 22 minutes (5,700 words)

HBO to Netflix: Bring It On

Inside HBO’s quest to win the streaming wars.

Source: Fast Company
Published: Apr 7, 2015
Length: 18 minutes (4,500 words)

Tennessee Williams on His Women, His Writer’s Block, and Whether It All Mattered

Tennessee Williams tasked James Grissom with seeking out each of the women (and few men) who had inspired his work—Maureen Stapleton, Lillian Gish, Marlon Brando and others—so that he could ask them a question: had Tennessee Williams, or his work, ever mattered?

Source: Longreads
Published: Apr 16, 2015
Length: 28 minutes (7,038 words)

Who Owns the Copyright to ‘Happy Birthday’?

The answer is more complicated than one might think.

Source: Priceonomics
Published: Apr 14, 2015
Length: 7 minutes (1,970 words)

Fish Out of Water

How a gay former academic who grew up in Puerto Rico became the most talked-about political operative in the Twin Cities.

Source: MinnPost
Published: Apr 13, 2015
Length: 20 minutes (5,000 words)