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Annie Lowrey

History

Tossing a Bird That Does Not Fly Out of a Plane

A Thanksgiving story about the limits of human empathy.

Annie Lowrey The Atlantic Nov 2018 20min Permalink

Best Article

Where's _why? : The Disappearance of One of the World’s Most Beloved Computer Programmers

On the mysterious disappearance of a beloved coding legend (and his code) with stops along the way for a short history of programming languages, an ethnography of code-based communities, and an inquiry into what it means to “die young without artifact.”

Annie Lowrey Slate Mar 2012 30min Permalink

Business

The Madoff of the Midwest

How Tim Durham funded a libertine lifestyle—dozens of luxury cars, Playboy-themed parties, a plethora of failed businesses—on the backs of unwitting Ohioans, many of them Amish.

Annie Lowrey Businessweek Jul 2011 15min Permalink