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23 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 12 years ago - ★★★★ - 63 ratingsEach week we bring you a new feature from Wired magazine.
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Heart of Darkness by Brian Raftery
December 16, 2011 22:56 - 28 minutes - 39.4 MBFilmmaker David Fincher takes angst and gloom and makes it beautiful. Who better to direct The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo? Issue 19.12, December 2011
Dave Sanders, (Not So) Special Agent by Joshua Davis
December 13, 2011 23:12 - 53 minutes - 73.7 MBFiber-optics exec by day, gun-toting defender of justice by night. Issue 19.12, December 2011
CEO of the Internet by Steven Levy
December 06, 2011 19:38 - 27 minutes - 37.9 MBAmazon founder Jeff Bezos talks about the new Kindle Fire, cloud computing, social media, and sending people into space. Issue 19.12, December 2011
Bitcoin's Rise and Fall by Benjamin Wallace
December 02, 2011 23:27 - 30 minutes - 41.9 MBThe story of the virtual currency you can actually spend—if it doesn't get stolen first. Issue 19.12, December 2011
Are We There Yet? by Bill Donahue
November 22, 2011 22:55 - 26 minutes - 36.6 MBSix men, locked in a capsule on a 520-day simulated mission to Mars. You should see what that does to a person. Issue 19.11, November 2011
Mystery Box by Andrew Curry
November 16, 2011 16:56 - 32 minutes - 44.2 MBLast year a cargo container arrived at an Italian port. It was emitting torrents of radiation. And no one knew what to do next. Issue 19.11, November 2011
The Second Coming by Steven Levy
November 07, 2011 23:54 - 25 minutes - 35.6 MBA decade ago, Napster's attempt to set music free was crushed by the record labels. Now, Facebook and Spotify (and a host of others) have resurrected the dream. Hallelujah. 19.11, November 2011
The Olfactory by Courtney Humphries
November 03, 2011 00:22 - 27 minutes - 37.3 MBMany of the ingredients prized by perfume companies—like oakmoss—are being regulated out of existence. So the industry is racing to produce replacements. Will they pass the smell test?
Enigma by Peter Savodnik
October 19, 2011 17:32 - 27 minutes - 38.4 MBA Russian shortwave radio station has been broadcasting mysterious patterns of beeps for decades. Why?
Scare Tactics by Benjamin Wallace
October 11, 2011 19:31 - 25 minutes - 34.5 MBHow two scammers built an empire by selling malevolent cures for fake computer viruses. Issue 19.10, October 2011
How to Hatch a Dinosaur by Thomas Hayden
October 04, 2011 17:17 - 24 minutes - 33.7 MBHow scientists are trying to reverse-evolve a chicken into a dinosaur. Issue 19.10, October 2011
The Cult of Bang & Olufsen by Rob Walker
September 27, 2011 01:20 - 20 minutes - 28.7 MBCan the Danish electronics company's far-out vision of the future survive in Apple's world? Issue 19.10, October 2011
Winging It by Adam Fisher
September 20, 2011 20:51 - 35 minutes - 48.5 MBRidiculously fast, hugely expensive, more than a little dangerous. The new America's Cup racers push the limits of what a sailboat can do. Issue 19.09, September 2011
Hey Pencil Neck! by Ben Austen
September 12, 2011 17:21 - 25 minutes - 35.4 MBWhat caricatures can teach us about facial recognition. Issue 19.08, August 2011
Let There Be LED by Dan Koeppel
September 06, 2011 18:40 - 32 minutes - 44.8 MBThe heir to the inefficient incandescent bulb isn't the mercury-laden CFL. Instead, it's a liquid-cooled creation that's radically different from anything ever screwed into a socket. Issue 19.09, September 2011
Going, Going, Gone by James Surowiecki
August 30, 2011 23:08 - 21 minutes - 30.1 MBAuctions were supposed to be the new way to buy and sell everything. It didn't turn out that way. Issue 19.06, June 2011
The One-Armed-Bandit Bandit by Brendan I. Koerner
August 22, 2011 22:03 - 27 minutes - 37.9 MBHow one man hacked his way into the super-secretive slot-machine industry. Issue 19.08, August 2011
Liquid Gold by Judy Dutton
August 15, 2011 20:34 - 22 minutes - 31.1 MBInside the booming market for nature's miracle: breast milk. Issue 19.06, June 2011
End of the Black Box by Jerry Adler
August 08, 2011 22:33 - 25 minutes - 34.8 MBWhen a plane goes down in the ocean, crucial info goes down with it. There's a better way to fly. Issue 19.07, July 2011
Bad Reputation by Jennifer Couzin-Frankel
August 03, 2011 00:36 - 25 minutes - 34.6 MBThe IUD is an ideal form of birth control, but in the 1970s one version made thousands of women sick and infertile. It's time to give the technology a second chance. Issue 19.08, August 2011
Half Life by Adam Higginbotham
July 26, 2011 20:18 - 34 minutes - 47.5 MBTwenty-five years after the Chernobyl meltdown, a scientific debate rages. Is the area around the reactor a death trap full of mutants or a new Eden for threatened species? Issue 19.05, May 2011
Meet Generation Y by Steven Levy
July 18, 2011 17:23 - 37 minutes - 52.2 MBMany of the hottest startups of 2011 will emerge from one place: Y Combinator, Paul Graham's Silicon Valley boot camp. Issue 19.06, June 2011
The Feedback Loop by Thomas Goetz
July 13, 2011 00:37 - 38 minutes - 52.9 MBHow technology has turned an age-old concept into an exciting new strategy for changing human behavior. Issue 19.07, July 2011