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An overachiever on what he did and didn’t learn at Princeton.
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An overachiever on what he did and didn’t learn at Princeton.
Walter Kirn The Atlantic Jan 2005 35min Permalink
The story of a tobacco industry whistleblower.
Marie Brenner Vanity Fair May 1996 1h15min Permalink
A profile of the greatest checkers player of all time.
Adam Langer Chicago Reader Feb 1993 20min Permalink
On artists using their bodies to blur the line between human and machine.
Sally Davies Nautilus Apr 2013 15min Permalink
Inside the growth of intelligence contracting.
Drake Bennett, Michael Riley Businessweek Jun 2013 15min Permalink
Embedded with the “hotshots” trying to battle forest fires.
Kyle Dickman Outside Jun 2013 20min Permalink
The “blood sport” of classical music reviews.
John Fram Pacific Standard Jul 2013 15min Permalink
Script doctor Damon Lindelof explains the new rules of blockbuster screenwriting.
Scott Brown New York Aug 2013 15min Permalink
At the annual meeting of Berkshire Hathaway in Omaha.
Mattathias Schwartz Harper's Jan 2010 30min Permalink
On the fast food workers of St. Louis.
Sarah Kendzior Medium Apr 2014 20min Permalink
The hedge funders who tried to give away a fortune anonymously.
Zachary R. Mider Businessweek May 2014 15min Permalink
Taking a taxi across the Saudi desert.
Dave Eggers New Statesman May 2014 45min Permalink
Life on a weed farm in Humboldt County.
Lee Ellis The Believer Jun 2014 30min Permalink
What the gospel of innovation gets wrong.
Jill Lepore New Yorker Jun 2014 25min Permalink
Catching up with Edward Snowden in Moscow.
James Bamford Wired Aug 2014 10min Permalink
On Wonder Woman’s feminist past.
Jill Lepore The New Yorker Sep 2014 30min Permalink
The battle over a New York Picasso.
Suzanna Andrews Vanity Fair Oct 2014 25min Permalink
The complexities of offering aid to a Syrian refugee camp.
Joshua Hersh VQR Oct 2014 30min Permalink
The bungled theft of a $6 million violin.
Buzz Bissinger Vanity Fair Nov 2014 20min Permalink
The thin moral line between collecting and stealing plants.
Sam Knight Guardian Oct 2014 25min Permalink
The story, so far, of First Look Media.
Andrew Rice New York Nov 2014 25min Permalink
Scenes of grief, from the sister of comedian Harris Wittels.
Stephanie Wittels Wachs Medium Jun 2015 15min Permalink
One rancher has a plan to save the endangered rhinoceros: domesticate them.
Carly Nairn Guernica 20min Permalink
Who killed four people in the French Alps?
Sean Flynn GQ Sep 2015 35min Permalink
Talking about hope and the environment with a photographer who takes pictures of birds killed by plastic.
Brooke Jarvis Pacific Standard Sep 2015 10min Permalink