The Untold Story of ILM
An oral history of Industrial Lights & Magic, which gave birth to Star Wars and countless films, as well as playing a hand in the creation of Photoshop and Pixar.
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An oral history of Industrial Lights & Magic, which gave birth to Star Wars and countless films, as well as playing a hand in the creation of Photoshop and Pixar.
Alex French, Howie Kahn Wired May 2015 Permalink
Foursquare and Gowalla are in a VC-funded race to become the dominant location-based social network. But their founders say both companies have a larger purpose.
Neal Pollack Wired (UK) Jun 2010 Permalink
Roy Petersen was blind in one eye, had two replaced hips, and was twice divorced. His job was to solve a gold mine robbery case in the Peruvian Andes. He would need some help.
Joshua Davis Epic Aug 2013 Permalink
On August 1, 1966, Charles Whitman entered the University of Texas at Austin’s Main Building. Armed with a number of rifles, he proceeded to kill 14 people and wound 32. Among them was a pregnant Claire Wilson.
Pamela Colloff Texas Monthly Mar 2016 50min Permalink
An East German weightlifter ingested more anabolic steroids than any other athlete in recorded history. It didn’t end well.
Brian Blickenstaff Vice Aug 2016 15min Permalink
An investigation into how “Mr. Putin, a student of martial arts, had turned two institutions at the core of American democracy — political campaigns and independent media — to his own ends.”
Eric Lipton, David E. Sanger, Scott Shane New York Times Dec 2016 Permalink
A discovery in a Lithuanian forest brings a tale of survival back to life.
Matthew Shaer Smithsonian Magazine Mar 2017 20min Permalink
A profile of Missy Elliott.
Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah Elle May 2017 25min Permalink
A secretive hedge fund used the British court system to punish an IP thief‚ even though he was already in jail.
Kit Chellel, Jeremy Hodges Bloomberg Businessweek Nov 2018 20min Permalink
A glimpse of life on the suburban road, featuring Russian mobsters, Fox News rage addicts, a caged man in a sex dungeon, and Dick Cheney.
Lauren Hough Huffington Post Dec 2018 25min Permalink
In El Salvador, Jucuapa is home to dozens of small factories that churn out what some locals call the “wooden pajamas.”
Matthew Bremner Bloomberg Businessweek Mar 2019 15min Permalink
A profile of the actor following a car accident that left him briefly in a coma and ultimately with a settlement so large he never has to work again.
Vinson Cunningham New Yorker May 2019 40min Permalink
“Three giant telecoms are gonna make and own all the content, and they’re not gonna want anyone else to make it.”
Jonah Weiner New York Times Magazine Jul 2019 30min Permalink
Iranian operative Qassem Suleimani has been reshaping the Middle East. Now he’s directing Bashar al-Assad’s war in Syria.
Dexter Filkins New Yorker Sep 2013 40min Permalink
Headlines have portrayed Australia’s bucket-list destination as dead, or dying. But that’s an oversimplification of a complex story—and the most dire threat from tourism may be what you least expect.
Juli Berwald Afar Apr 2020 15min Permalink
African-Americans are 75 percent more likely than others to live near facilities that produce hazardous waste. Can a grass-roots environmental-justice movement make a difference?
Linda Villarosa New York Times Magazine Jul 2020 30min Permalink
Against all odds, it really was a refuge of competence, normalcy and transcendent play. But the outside world has a way of sneaking in.
Sam Anderson New York Times Magazine Sep 2020 20min Permalink
Brian Kelly, The Points Guy, has created an empire dedicated to maximizing credit-card rewards and airline miles. What are they worth in a global pandemic — and why are they worth anything at all?
Jamie Lauren Keiles New York Times Magazine Jan 2021 35min Permalink
The once-utopian accommodations site, now headed by an alum of surveillance-analytics firm Palantir, has gone back on its always-free ethos.
Andrew Fedorov Input Magazine Sep 2021 30min Permalink
In the 1950s, L.S.D. became a Beverly Hills’ therapy fad, and it profoundly changed idols like Cary Grant.
Judy Balaban, Cary Beauchamp Vanity Fair Jul 2010 25min Permalink
A 29-year-old Jobs on the culture that gave birth to Apple.
David Sheff Playboy Feb 1985 1h5min
Having departed Apple, a slightly disillusioned Jobs describes his new project, NeXT, and his views on the future of technology.
Jobs, having been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, addresses the graduating class of 2005.
Steve Jobs Jun 2005 10min
The legendary rivals meet, in conversation.
Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg All Things D Aug 2011 55min
A former Gizmodo editor at the center of the lost iPhone 4 scandal recalls his relationship with Jobs.
Brian Lam Wirecutter Oct 2011
Feb 1985 – Oct 2011 Permalink
An account of the chaos published the following day.
Michael Ellison, Ed Vulliamy, and Jane Martinson The Guardian Sep 2001 15min
The life story of Rick Rescorla: immigrant, war hero, husband, and head of security at Morgan Stanley/Dean Witter, which occupied 22 floors in the south tower.
James B. Stewart New Yorker Feb 2002 40min
The story of 16 people, 12 of whom were firefighters, who somehow made it out alive despite being inside the north tower when it collapsed.
Steve Fishman New York Sep 2003 25min
In the days after 9/11, a photo of an unknown man falling from the South Tower appeared in publications across the globe. A search for the story of that photograph, and the man it captured.
An essay on the old and new in New York.
Colson Whitehead New York Times Nov 2001 10min
Sep 2001 – Sep 2003 Permalink
Searching for Jimmy Robinson, a boxer who fought Muhammad Ali in 1961, then disappeared.
Wright Thompson ESPN Dec 2009 35min
An investigation into the disappearance of 24-year-old Rebecca Coriam from aboard the Disney Wonder opens the strange and insular world of cruise employees, who vanish mysteriously at alarming rates.
Jon Ronson Guardian Nov 2011 20min
In 1938, Gaines was the catalyst for a pivotal civil rights court case. One year later, he was gone.
Chad Garrison Riverfront Times Apr 2007 15min
The father of the first kid featured on a milk carton thinks he knows who kidnapped the him 30 years ago.
Lisa R. Cohen New York May 2009 15min
The search for Raoul Wallenberg, who saved thousands of Jews during the Holocaust, began in 1945. The unending quest tore his family apart.
Joshua Prager Wall Street Journal Feb 2009 20min
In 1926, at the age of 12, Barbara Follett published a critically acclaimed novel. Fourteen years later, she disappeared.
Paul Collins Lapham's Quarterly Dec 2010
Apr 2007 – Nov 2011 Permalink
Russian serial killer Alexander Pichushkin was so prolific that even he doesn’t know how many he killed.
Peter Savodnik GQ May 2009 20min
Sixteen years ago, William Dranginis saw Bigfoot. He’s still trying to prove it.
Eric Wills Washington City Paper Jul 2008 20min
Three weeks after Hannah Emily Upp, a 23-year-old Spanish teacher, disappeared while on a run, she was found alive, floating in New York Harbor. Upp had no idea how she got there.
Rebecca Flint Marx and Vytenis Didziulis New York Times Oct 1979 10min
On the Holocaust origins of a lampshade pulled from the ruins of Katrina.
Marc Jacobson New York Sep 2011 30min
Odessa High School students know her as “Betty,” a ghost that haunts the auditorium at night. But there’s more to the story.
Pamela Coloff Texas Monthly Feb 2006
On Joe Francis—creator of “Girls Gone Wild,” assaulter of reporters, creep extraordinaire.
Claire Hoffman Los Angeles Times Aug 2006 25min
Oct 1979 – Sep 2011 Permalink
Investigating an insecure billionaire’s true worth.
Kerry A. Dolan Forbes Mar 2013 Permalink