5 Intriguing Things
1. The translated poems of Xu Lizhi, a Foxconn worker who committed suicide. “On My Deathbed” I want to take another look at the ocean, behold the vastness...
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Hi. As most of you know, I left The Atlantic earlier this month and I'm starting at Fusion, the ABC-Univision joint venture, next month. I was going to keep...
5 Intriguing Things, 10/15
1. Gather round, kids, to hear the story of warez, a word that used to practically set my heart racing. "Warez is a virtual, global network of people...
5 Intriguing Things, 10/14
1. This is heavy and worthwhile. An anthropologist argues that one reason Ebola has spread is that public health spending now focuses on individual diseases...
5 Intriguing Things, 10/13
1. THE SEGWAY OF UNICYCLES. "I’ve used other futuristic rideables, like the Zboard and E-Go Cruiser, but this was my first interaction with a unicycle —...
5 Intriguing Things
1. Modeling the ebola outbreak with a "live" scientific paper. "We have developed in the past week a modeling approach aimed at assessing the progression of...
5 Intriguing Things
1. USA Today is kicking off serious coverage of the racial pay gap in the tech industry. "In the same high-skilled positions such as computer programmers and...
1 Intriguing Thing
Hey Friends, There was big news in my own little world yesterday. I announced that I am leaving The Atlantic for Fusion, the ABC/Univision joint venture....
5 Intriguing Things
1. Meet the Mosers, Nobel Prize winners for their work finding our brain's "inner GPS." "If anyone knows how we navigate home, it is the Mosers. They shot to...
5 Intriguing Things
1. These future scenarios are not implausible enough. "Ten years after the introduction of Google’s self-driving car, it still shows ads for businesses in...
5 Intriguing Things
1. Right this minute, these people are going looking for a lost town at the bottom of Lake Shasta with a remotely operated vehicle they made. "Based on an...
5 Intriguing Things
1. This guy mapped the microwave tower networks used for high-frequency trading. "I’ve researched and written about high-frequency trading (HFT) since 2012,...
5 Intriguing Things
Hello from Chicago. I want to apologize for the attenuation of the newsletter this week. These days have been the busiest of my life. Next week, I promise at...
5 Intriguing Things
1. India sent a satellite to Mars for only $74 million. "The Mangalyaan satellite was confirmed to be in orbit shortly after 0800, Indian time. It is,...
5 Intriguing Things
1. The GoPro genre. "The genre is characterized by point of view, by brevity, and by incident. The ones that go viral contain something extraordinary, be it...
5 Intriguing Things
1. A visit to China's shale gas country. "The clouds faded as we climbed, revealing a quilt of farmland dotted with pingfang, or flattop houses. We drove...
5 Intriguing Things
1. The body-cameras-for-cops movement is gaining steam. "The U.S. Border Patrol will begin wearing cameras this year at its training academy, a test to see...
5 Intriguing Things
1. What happened when the Nevada DMV tested one of Google's self-driving cars. "They have driven more than 1 million kilometers since the company started...
5 Intriguing Things
1. The lesson here: Refrigeration slows biological time. "Now doctors at the University of Pittsburgh are taking therapeutic hypothermia to a literally new...
5 Intriguing Things
1. Joi Ito, the head of the MIT Media Lab, visits Shenzhen. "We started in the section of the market where people were taking broken or trashed cellphones...