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A collection of articles about the creative geniuses behind the most important video games ever made, from Donkey Kong to Grand Theft Auto to Pong.
A profile of Shigeru Miyamoto, the man who invented Donkey Kong, Mario, and the Wii.
Nick Paumgarten New Yorker Dec 2010 35min
How a group of roommates in Minneapolis created the most enduring educational game ever.
Jessica Lussenhop City Pages Jan 2011 15min
Chronicling the viral spread of the early video game Spacewar through computer science departments around the country, with students hacking in their own variations on the game and passing it on, until it eventually arrived in coffee shops at 25 cents per play.
Stewart Brand Rolling Stone Dec 1972 35min
Duke Nukem 3D made its creators filthy rich. Trying to complete its sequel nearly destroyed them.
Clive Thompson Wired Dec 2009 20min
A profile of Dave Jones, the designer of Lemmings and Grand Theft Auto.
David Kushner GamePro Jul 2010
A “crude table-tennis arcade game” called Pong and the birth of the video game industry.
Chris Stokel-Walker Buzzfeed Nov 2012 20min
Dec 1972 – Nov 2012 Permalink
How Tony Galeota went from mobbed-up teen on Long Island to legendary strip club manager in Miami to distraught prisoner in a Panamanian jail.
Michael E. Miller The Miami New Times Oct 2012 20min Permalink
“Over and over again, records show, predatory physicians took advantage of a doctor’s special privilege — the daily practice of asking trusting people to disrobe in a private room and permit themselves to be touched.”
A case in Baltimore — in which two men were convicted of the same murder and cleared by DNA 20 years later — shows how far prosecutors will go to preserve a conviction.
Megan Rose ProPublica Sep 2017 30min Permalink
She’s trying to keep comedy alive at a moment when Hollywood—and its audience—can’t seem to crack a smile.
Taffy Brodesser-Akner New York Times Magazine Oct 2018 25min Permalink
“My entire vocation as an investigative reporter was predicated on being able to reveal truths, and yet I could not even rustle up the evidence to convince my own mother.”
Albert Samaha Buzzfeed Mar 2021 25min Permalink
About 100 miles from Galveston, Flower Garden Banks is home to some of the healthiest coral communities in the world. Some unlikely allies came together to help expand protections, but will it be enough?
Juli Berwald Texas Monthly Aug 2021 30min Permalink

A collection of articles by and about the Paris Review founder, who died 10 years ago this week.</p>

A collection of picks about the pills we swallow and the people who make them, take them and sell them.</p>

The economy’s impact on a brothel, the real lives of cam girls, and an interview with a john—a collection of articles on the business of sex.</p>

A collection of picks by and about the former editor of the New York Observer, who died Friday.</p>
The Perfect Storm, Argo and Dog Day Afternoon — a collection of great articles that became (mostly) great movies, presented by MUBI. Think life is too short for bad films? Try MUBI, a different kind of streaming service, free for 30 days.
The motley gang of L.A. teens that cat-burgled celebrities, sometimes repeatedly, in search of designer clothes, jewelry, and something to do.
Film: The Bling Ring
Nancy Jo Sales Vanity Fair Mar 2010 20min
An orchid-enthusiast goes to battle in Florida.
Film: Adaptation
Susan Orlean The New Yorker Jan 1995 25min
Nearly 20 years after its publication, the author revealed that this story, on the disco scene in Brooklyn, was a fake.
Film: Saturday Night Fever
The man who blew the whistle on big tobacco.
Film: The Insider
Marie Brenner Vanity Fair May 1996 1h15min
Adventures in bartending.
Film: Coyote Ugly
Elizabeth Gilbert GQ Mar 1997 20min
Six young men, a boat, and the worst gale in a century.
Sebastian Junger Outside Oct 1994 20min
At age 22, the author went undercover at his old high school. Here’s what he found.
Cameron Crowe Playboy Sep 1981 15min
A young Brooklyn man attempts a bank robbery to finance his lover’s sex change surgery.
Film: Dog Day Afternoon
P.F. Kluge, Thomas Moore LIFE Sep 1972
Hanging with surfer girls in Maui.
Film: Blue Crush
Susan Orlean Outside Sep 1998 20min
Drag racing in New York.
Film: The Fast and the Furious
Kenneth Li Vibe May 1998 10min
At 25, Stephen Glass was a reporter wunderkind, regularly filing incredible pieces for the largest magazines. When suspicion fell on his sources, things started to really get strange. It wasn’t just sources and organizations he was inventing, but whole stories.
Buzz Bissinger Vanity Fair Sep 1998 30min
How the CIA used a fake science fiction film to sneak six Americans out of revolutionary Iran.
Film: Argo
Joshuah Bearman Wired Apr 2007 20min
Sep 1972 – Mar 2010 Permalink
This guide is sponsored by The Second Machine Age, the New York Times bestseller by MIT's Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee.
The Second Machine Age is a book about how the technological revolution is reinventing our lives and our economy. But unlike so many writing about tech, Brynjolfsson and McAfee, two thinkers at the forefront of their field, are hopeful for our technological future. And they've come up with roadmap for how to navigate it.
Buy a copy today. And while you wait for it to arrive, check out this collection of great, optimistic articles about tech, curated by Brynjolfsson and McAfee, that helped inspire their book:
Way before Ray Kurzweil, Keynes showed us what happens as exponential growth accumulates over time. His projections about how big the economy would become after decades of compounded growth sounded like lunacy to readers during the Great Depression but were amazingly accurate, as was his prediction that humanity would move past its “struggle for subsistence” within a century. At the same time, he overestimated how quickly the work week would get shorter – most of us are working a lot more hours than he envisioned.
John Maynard Keynes Essays in Persuasion Jan 1930 15min
This description of what Usenet is and how it works, written shortly before the Web exploded into the mainstream, got important things right: the net’s great variety and utility, its unruliness, and the overall spirit of helpfulness and sharing that persists more than two decades later.
Robert Wright The New Republic Sep 1993 20min
Economist Julian Simon is an intellectual hero of ours. Throughout his underappreciated career he made the case that things were getting better instead of worse, backed up his arguments with masses of data, and won wagers against prominent Malthusians. This piece is a great introduction to his thinking, and gives him some of the recognition he’s due.
Before the Watson supercomputer trounced the two best human Jeopardy! players early in 2011, this article revealed its uncanny ability to mine vast amounts of text in search of answers to tough questions, and to navigate the punning and other wordplay that the quiz show throws at its contestants. This is one of the articles that made us say to each other “Something’s different now…”
Clive Thompson New York Times Magazine Jun 2010
Kasparov, a powerful writer, explains how computers came to dominate humans at chess and why this is not cause for alarm that they’ll soon be able to do everything better than we do. Chess has long been an exemplar of human intelligence, and increasingly a metaphor for how humans and machines may co-exist.
Garry Kasparov The New York Review of Books Feb 2010 15min
The digital economy is not just different, too often it’s invisible. Brian Arthur brings it to life with a description of all the ways it increasingly surrounds us. As “software eats the world”, to use Marc Andreessen’s evocative phrase, we’ll all need to get more and more familiar with this other economy.
Brian Arthur McKinsey Quarterly Oct 2011 10min
Captures the palpable energy coming from San Francisco’s young technology entrepreneurs, who by perceiving no barriers are knocking a lot of them down. We share Heller’s sense that things are happening more quickly there than just about anyplace else.
Nathan Heller New Yorker Oct 2013 35min
For the data lovers among us, here’s a slew of encouraging trends from falling poverty and crime, to rising life expectancy, literacy and computer power. There’s still a lot of work to be done, but the positive numbers feed our optimism.
Dylan Matthews Washington Post Nov 2013
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Jan 1930 – Nov 2013 Permalink
On the shady underworld of door to door magazine sales teams, in which teens roam the country in vans, con locals with sob stories, party constantly in cheap motels, and leave behind a trail of rapes, fiery crashes, and new subscriptions.
Craig Malisow Houston Press Jul 2008 25min Permalink
</h2>The voting booth, the jury box, the bench and the chair — a collection of picks on all sides of capital punishmet.
</h2>David Foster Wallace, Sheryl Sandberg, Jon Stewart — a collection of classic graduation speeches.
From grizzlies in Alaska to whales at SeaWorld, a collection stories of animals turning on humans.
On Timothy Treadwell, later immortalized in Grizzly Man, who lived and died by the bears of Alaska.
Ned Zeman Vanity Fair May 2004 40min
The life story of Travis the chimp and the family of tow truck operators who raised him like a human child before it all ended in tragedy.
Dan P. Lee New York Jan 2011 25min
The life story of Tilikum, a killer whale who dragged his SeaWorld trainer into the pool and drowned her in 2010. It was the third time the orca had been involved in a death during his 27 years in captivity.
Tim Zimmerman Outside Jul 2010 35min
Encountering a pack of wild dogs in Manhattan.
Rebecca Skloot New York May 2005 10min
“Joe’s hand began to tingle, and he called the group together. The toxins would leave his system in 48 hours, he said. He’d be conscious the whole time.”
Mark W. Moffett Outside Apr 2002 10min
After two people are found dead in Yellowstone National Park, a team of investigators tracks down the unlikely culprit: a grizzly bear.
Jessica Grose Slate Apr 2012 40min
Apr 2002 – Apr 2012 Permalink
Cancer, AIDS and weaponized smallpox—a collection of the best articles about disease.
How smallpox went from eradicated disease to the ideal weapon of bioterrorists.
Richard Preston New Yorker Jul 1999 50min
The author of The Hot Zone on how geneticists can help contain the current outbreak.
Richard Preston New Yorker Oct 2014 40min
The story of H1N1 and John Behnken, whose life it claimed.
Thomas Lake Atlanta Magazine Jun 2010 20min
New York during the early days of the AIDS epidemic.
Michael Daly New York Jun 1983 20min
Living on borrowed time, with liver cancer.
Marjorie Williams Vanity Fair Oct 2005 45min
Exploring the riddle of Morgellons disease: sufferers feel things crawling under their skin and hardly anyone believes them.
Leslie Jamison Harper's Sep 2013 25min
Jun 1983 – Oct 2014 Permalink
A team of researchers at Columbia believe that small changes to college life could make campuses safer.
Jia Tolentino The New Yorker Feb 2018 20min Permalink
The author, age 96, on the end.
Diana Athill The Guardian Sep 2014 10min Permalink
An interview with Pulitzer-winning food critic Jonathan Gold.
Andrew Simmons, Jonathan Gold The Believer Sep 2012 15min Permalink
Wandering through the Frankfurt Book Fair.
Gideon Lewis-Kraus Harper's Mar 2009 Permalink
He was an 18 year old Marine bound for Iraq. She was a high school senior in West Virginia. They grew intimate over IM. His dad also started contacting her. No one was who they claimed to be and it led to a murder.
Nadya Labi Wired Aug 2007 15min
John Dirr’s son Eli didn’t really have cancer. In fact, neither Eli nor John Dirr ever existed. The story of a decade-long hoax.
Adrian Chen Gawker Jun 2012
On an affliction for the digital age, “Munchausen by internet.”
Cienna Madrid The Stranger Nov 2012 35min
How a 19-year-old actress and a few struggling Web filmmakers created a star.
Joshua Davis Wired Dec 2006 15min
How a Massachusetts psychotherapist fell for a Nigerian e-mail scam.
Michael Zuckoff New Yorker May 2006 20min
The story was told by Sports Illustrated, CBS News, and countless others: linbeacker Manti Te’o, Heisman trophy candidate and the face of Notre Dame football, was playing brilliantly despite the tragic loss of his girfriend to leukemia early in the season. The reporters missed one key element of Te’o’s story, however: the girl hadn’t died. She couldn’t have. She didn’t exist.
Timothy Burke, Jack Dickey Deadspin Jan 2013 15min
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An obsessive marine biologist gambles his savings, family, and sanity on a quest to be the first to capture a live giant squid.
David Grann New Yorker May 2004 45min
On the grief that comes with losing livestock.
E.B. White Atlantic Jan 1948 15min
A profile of a 25-year-old Spanish sensation.
Susan Orlean Outside Dec 1996 25min
The inevitably tragic story of Travis the chimp and the family of tow-truck operators who raised him like a human child.
Dan P. Lee New York Jan 2011
A trip to a lobster festival in Maine leads to an examination of the culinary and ethical dimensions of cooking a live, possibly sentient, creature.
David Foster Wallace Gourmet Aug 2004
Jan 1948 – Jan 2011 Permalink