Wired Storyboard Audio Podcast
98 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 11 years ago - ★★★★ - 14 ratingsWired Storyboard: Are you Wired? Want to know what really went on in making this month's magazine? Wired's editors, writers and designers take you deep into the stories they've been working on for a behind-the-scenes look at the latest issue. Join this podcast for an in-depth look at the tech, science, gadgets and culture stories by the people behind Wired magazine.
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Storyboard: Episode 49 – Smart Jobs Report with Planet Money
May 25, 2011 20:56 - 24 minutes - 22.8 MBWhen Wired senior editor Bill Wasik and his pal Adam Davidson (who just happens to be the cohost of NPR’s awesome economics series, Planet Money) decided to team up on a special report about the future of work, big things were bound to happen. Planet Money has a reputation for turning even the most arcane business concepts into gripping radio, and Wired’s designers are the best in the biz at eye-popping infographics. Still, neither of them expected to be pushing the boundaries of human know...
Storyboard: Episode 48 – The Humor Code
May 02, 2011 12:00 - 20 minutes - 19.2 MBThe writer E. B. White famously remarked that “analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies.” Nevertheless, this week on the podcast writer Joel Warner and editor Chris Baker join host Adam Rogers to talk about one professor’s attempt to explain every joke ever. Tune in to go behind the scenes of “The Humor Code,” a story from the May special issue of Wired.
Storyboard: Episode 47 – Bonus Episode: Cityscapes
April 25, 2011 12:00 - 24 minutes - 22 MBThink of a city – Chicago, Los Angeles, New York. What defines it? The climate? The people? The food? Maybe it’s buildings. That’s the idea John King, urban design critic at the San Francisco Chronicle, explores today on the podcast with host Adam Rogers. To help the non-locals navigate all the San Francisco talk, we’ve created an annotated Google map with all the local landmarks: http://wrdm.ag/sfcityscape
Storyboard: Episode 46a – The Strain
April 11, 2011 12:00 - 30 minutes - 28.3 MBTen years ago, letters laced with anthrax killed five people. The FBI says it traced the spores to a single US scientist. But could the Feds have gotten the wrong man? Writer Noah Shachtman and editor Rob Capps join Adam Rogers to discuss “The Strain,” a feature from the April issue of Wired. Update: At the request of the Ivins family, this podcast was edited on 4/21/11 to remove language that implied Bruce Ivins had a negative relationship with his children.
Storyboard: Episode 45 – Bonus Episode: How To Survive
April 04, 2011 12:00 - 25 minutes - 23.7 MBDisaster: It’s not a matter of if, it’s a matter of when -- so you’d better get ready. That’s according to this week’s podcast guest, disaster-management guru Joseph Pred. “Being prepared is a civic duty,” he says. But it doesn’t have to be hard or cost a lot. In this special bonus episode, Pred sits down with regular host Adam Rogers to give you the straight scoop on what you’ll really want to have on hand when the next earthquake hits or the zombies attack.
Storyboard: Episode 44 – Modernist Cuisine
March 11, 2011 12:00 - 28 minutes - 26.4 MBThe kitchen is the lab in everybody’s house. But with his new cookbook Modernist Cuisine, former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold has taken the science of food to a whole new level. At six volumes, $625, and 50 pounds, it may be the last cookbook you’ll ever need - if you can handle it. Wired special projects editor Mark McClusky got exclusive access to Myhrvold and his kitchen lab for the story “Mad Science” in the March issue of the magazine. Today on the podcast, McClusky dishes to regular h...
Storyboard: Episode 43 – Bonus Episode: Al Jazeera English enters “The Stream”
March 04, 2011 12:00 - 14 minutes - 13.5 MBSocial media has been at the heart of popular uprisings sweeping across the Middle East, and one of the best sources for hearing what’s going on has been Al Jazeera English. Now the Qatar-based network is bringing the social media experience inside your TV with its new show “The Stream.” Scheduled to launch in May, the talk show will be like none other: no tape, no script, no satellite hookups. “It’s about people talking to each other,” says Shihab-Eldin, the show’s co-host. Today on the p...
Storyboard: Episode 42 – The Fury
March 01, 2011 21:56 - 25 minutes - 23.8 MBWhat makes a smart, well-educated mother of four go on a killing spree? That’s the question writer Amy Wallace set out to answer in her story “The Fury,” which appears in the March issue of Wired. The piece digs into the story of University of Alabama scientist Amy Bishop, who stands accused of shooting six of her colleagues last year. The tragic event, which left three professors dead, got lots of attention in the press, but Wallace wanted to take advantage of the magazine format to go deepe...
Storyboard: Episode 41 – Easy Money
February 16, 2011 12:00 - 27 minutes - 25.6 MBIn some scratch lottery games, it’s not that hard to beat the odds. For our February Underworld issue, Jonah Lehrer unravels the tale of a statistician who cracked the code and picked winning tickets 90 percent of the time – before scratching them. Today on the podcast, host Adam Rogers gets the inside scoop on this lottery saga from Lehrer and Wired features editor Mark Robinson. Could we have uncovered a new way the Mob launders money? “There disturbing anomalies,” says Lehrer. Listen in ...
Storyboard: Episode 40 – The Book Of Woe
February 01, 2011 21:56 - 23 minutes - 21.8 MBStick a fork in it: in the long term, the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is done for. That’s according to Gary Greenberg, a practicing psychotherapist and author of a feature in the January issue about the controversy surrounding the book’s future fifth edition. For decades, the DSM has been the definitive almanac of psychiatric disease. But the effort to update the book has highlighted the challenge of categorizing slippery, ...
Storyboard: Episode 39 – Drivers Not Wanted
January 19, 2011 12:00 - 21 minutes - 19.8 MBCrash avoidance and automatic parking are just the start; our future automobiles could redefine the term “smart car” and our understanding of artificial intelligence to boot. In this episode, podcast host Adam Rogers sits down with Gizmodo features editor (and former Wired staffer) Joe Brown to talk about Joe’s story on intelligent cars from the January issue. Fasten your seat belts, sit back, and enjoy the ride.
Storyboard: Episode 38 - Bonus Episode: Disaster Zone
January 18, 2011 21:56 - 15 minutes - 14.6 MBOn a recent visit to California, FEMA chief Craig Fugate's agenda read like an all-star roster of tech companies: Start the day at Twitter and Craigslist, drop by Wired at lunch, then on to visit Apple and Facebook. Why is this bureaucrat, head of the oft-maligned Federal Emergency Management Agency, on a tour of the techno-elite's offices? Because he's seen that when all hell breaks loose, disaster survivors turn to social networks -- both in their neighborhoods and online. Even in the rubb...
Storyboard: Episode 37 - Bonus Episode: CES Report
January 14, 2011 12:00 - 21 minutes - 19.4 MBThe glasses are goofy and the prices are still high, but Wired products editor John Bradley bets that your living room will soon feature the 3D experience. Why? One word: sports. Bradley is fresh off the floor of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, where every January, tens of thousands of tech industry insiders descend on Sin City for four days of gadget geekery. This week on the podcast Bradley sits down with senior editor Adam Rogers to share his stories from the trenches. Tune ...
Storyboard: Episode 35 - Tron:Legacy will be awesome
November 23, 2010 21:56 - 27 minutes - 31 MBUnless you've been living in an isolation chamber, you might have heard about this new movie, Tron:Legacy. It's hard to ignore the deluge of hype. There was a scavenger-hunt like viral campaign, a dead-on recreation of Flynn’s Arcade at Comic-con, an attraction at Disneyland and an old Jeff Bridges battling a young Jeff Bridges thanks to a computer-magic. How many Tron soundtrack fake-outs have you downloaded? The first Tron, never got this much love. Will the Tron re-boot make up for the ...
Storyboard: Episode 34 - All Natural: The unlikely key to a medical breakthrough
October 26, 2010 12:00 - 27 minutes - 31.3 MBThe cover story of the November issue takes a good hard look at breast augmentation, that’s right, boob jobs. But this is more than just a superficial read, this article takes a look at an ambitious new method of breast enhancement is a less controversial way to introduce stem cells usage to the mass market. The pursuit of the perfect breast could be the key to a major breakthrough in regenerative medicine. Filling in for Adam Rogers is Senior Editor, Jason Tanz. He sits down with ace scie...
Storyboard: Episode 33 - The Booze Edition
October 05, 2010 12:00 - 25 minutes - 29.6 MBWe at Wired love a good cocktail, not just a good cocktail, a great cocktail. And making a great cocktail is more than just art, it’s a science. You have to consider flavor combinations and liquor to mixer to ice ratios. And bar patrons pallets have expanded — vodka tonic or a Cosmo just doesn’t cut it anymore. What you imbibe has become a sophisticated blend of ingredients like infused syrups and egg whites. In this bonus podcast, host Adam Rogers geeks-out with San Francisco-based barten...
Storyboard: Episode 32 - The Electric Car That Could
October 04, 2010 12:00 - 32 minutes - 37.2 MBForget about other EV's, Elon Musk might have the sexiest electric vehicle out there. The Tesla Roadster, is a sleek, fast, high-performance electric car that almost didn't make it. The company, Tesla Motors was about to stall out but is now slated to win the race. (Yes, car puns) This dramatic rise, fall, rise, fall and rise again, is the topic of Wired's October cover story by Contributing Editor Josh Davis. On this week's Storyboard podcast, Josh takes us for a ride as he talks Tesla wi...
Storyboard: Episode 31 - The History of Technology
September 22, 2010 12:00 - 18 minutes - 20.9 MBThe much beloved Supersoaker (and Storyboard host Adam Rogers' college prank instrument of choice) started out as PVC piping and a 2-liter coke bottle. Some of our favorite inventions had the very humblest of origins — a few of which were photographed in this month's issue. This week on Storyboard, Adam interviews Special Projects Editor Mark McClusky to get the story on the coolest gadget prototypes of all time. If you want to hear the hidden history of the touch tone phone, listen in as M...
Storyboard: Episode 30 - How to Watch Television
September 15, 2010 12:00 - 18 minutes - 21.5 MBTelevision is supposed to be easy — there's a reason its called the idiot box. Somehow between cable, Hulu, Netflix, Itunes and all the rest, how you watch it has become riddled with too much choice and anxiety. Never fear, Adam Rogers to the rescue. In this week's Storyboard podcast, Adam sits down with Articles Editor, Rob Capps to discuss this month's TV package. Get expert advice on how to ditch cable and learn why Community is the best show on TV (as if you didn't know already.)
Storyboard: Episode 29 - Bonus Episode: Adam Goes to Comic-Con, Pt. 2
August 19, 2010 12:00 - 21 minutes - 24.7 MBIn between panels, movie screenings and general crowd-watching at this year’s Comic-Con International, Wired senior editor Adam Rogers found time to interview British “weird fiction” writer China Mievelle — A self professed “classic geek’, who grew up nurturing an “astonishing fidelity to a love of monsters” that inspires his work. Also in this bonus podcast, Adam discusses his own personal fixation with cities and the difference between British and American geekery.
Storyboard: Episode 28 - Bonus Episode: Adam Goes to Comic-Con
August 16, 2010 12:00 - 26 minutes - 36.2 MBIt’s your lucky day — a bonus edition of the Storyboard. This week Senior Editor Adam Rogers travels to interview Comi-Con to Namoi Novik, the brains behind the Temeraire series. Novik discusses how she re-imagined the Napoleonic wars with an air force of dragons, reveals details from her upcoming book Tongues of Serpents and gives fanfic all the love it deserves.
Storyboard: Episode 27 - Future Fails
August 06, 2010 12:00 - 13 minutes - 18.7 MBWhatever happened to my jetpack? What about my robot maid? Why on earth do I still have to chew food instead of taking my meal pill? And why is Will Ferrell on the cover of this month’s Wired with two white dogs! Hear the story behind the Future issue in this week’s Storyboard podcast as Adam Rogers talks shop with fellow Senior Editor Robert Capps.
Storyboard: Episode 26 - Bad Connection
July 19, 2010 12:00 - 17 minutes - 15.6 MBSenior editor Adam Rogers talks to Fred Vogelstein about the bad blood between the two companies, and the consumer uprising that's changing the way big companies respond to pissed off users. Turns out a little hashtag on Twitter packs more of a punch than those strongly worded letters you've been writing.
Storyboard: Episode 25 - Cockpits
July 07, 2010 12:00 - 13 minutes - 12.3 MBEver wonder what it’s like to maneuver a monster truck or pilot a supersonic spy plane? We can’t get you a test ride, but we can put you in the driver’s seat. Writer Steven Leckart discusses his photo essay "Cockpits" from the July issue along with the essay's photo editor Anna Alexander and Storyboard host Adam Rogers.
Storyboard: Episode 24 - Sergey's Search
June 25, 2010 12:00 - 17 minutes - 15.9 MBGoogle cofounder Sergey Brin has a 50 percent chance of developing Parkinson's. It's coded in his DNA. So he's pushing for a new kind of science—heavy on the data—to find a cure before the disease finds him. Executive editor Thomas Goetz discusses his cover story on the topic in the July issue of Wired with senior editor Adam Rogers.
Storyboard: Episode 23 - The Flesh Files
June 17, 2010 12:00 - 12 minutes - 11.3 MBPreserving human organic material is complicated. It doesn't help that the nations biobanks—Huge libraries of flesh—use out-moded and inadequate technology. Writer Steve Silberman discusses his feature from the June issue of Wired with Articles Editor Robert Capps.
Storyboard: Episode 22 - The Music of Lost
May 25, 2010 12:00 - 16 minutes - 15.3 MBIn the series finale, the score of Lost kept viewers on their toes and drew more than a few tears. Erik Malinowski talks to Nancy Miller about how composer Michael Giacchino and writer Eddy Kitsis orchestrated the sounds that kept us watching the series.
Storyboard: Episode 21 - The Island Paradox
May 18, 2010 12:00 - 18 minutes - 16.6 MBNancy Miller plumbs the depths of Lost with senior editor Joanna Pearlstein, who talks about her conversation with the creators of lost and a theoretical physicist.
Storyboard: Episode 20 - Tabula Rasa
April 27, 2010 12:00 - 17 minutes - 16.3 MBThe iPad is Apple's hot new thing, and we take a look at how it will change your life in the April issue of Wired.
Storyboard: Episode 19 - The Five Secrets of YouTube's Success
April 06, 2010 12:00 - 11 minutes - 10.2 MBYouTube recently celebrated its fifth birthday, and in the April issue of Wired we take a look a look back at the five secrets that have made YouTube one of the most successful sites on the internet.
Storyboard: Episode 18 - April Start Section
March 24, 2010 12:00 - 17 minutes - 15.7 MBDon your foil hats for a look at “Geeks Versus Spies”, Noah Shachtman’s essay about breaking up the NSA, and two other front-of-the-book pieces from Wired's April issue. Editors Robert Capps, Chris Baker, and Adam Rogers break down these three tasty chunks of Wired goodness and discuss how they arrived in the pages of your magazine.
Storyboard: Episode 17 - The Dotcom Boom: 10 Years After
March 16, 2010 12:00 - 18 minutes - 17.4 MBIt was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the time of scarce bandwidth, it was the time of 24 hour ice cream delivery. Senior Editor Joanna Pearlstein reminisces with contributors Matt Honan and Steven Leckart about the Dotcom era's major players, massive failures, and missed opportunities. And the schwag. Oh, the schwag.
Storyboard: Episode 15 - The Decision Tree
February 12, 2010 12:00 - 15 minutes - 14.6 MBLife is complicated—especially when it comes to our health. Once we reach a certain age, we start to realize that health is variable, not a constant. On this weeks Storyboard story editor Sarah Fallon hosts a conversation with executive editor Thomas Goetz about the exclusive excerpt from his book in the February issue of WIRED. It's called "The Decision Tree: Taking Control of Your Health in the New Era of Personalized Medicine"
Storyboard: Episode 16 - Extreme Test
February 12, 2010 12:00 - 23 minutes - 21.8 MBHow do you put products designed to withstand the most extreme conditions to the test? After all, burly bulletproof vests are all tested and rated by professionals before they're ever available to the public. So in the March issue of Wired, our testers took rugged gear designed for extreme conditions and pushed the limits of it's capabilities. On this episode of Storyboard, Associate Editor Joe Brown and Contributing Editor Mat Honan talk about unloading clips into bulletproof vests, getting ...
Storyboard: Episode 14 - Atoms are the New Bits
February 05, 2010 12:00 - 15 minutes - 14.6 MBIn an age of open source, custom-fabricated, DIY product design all you need to conquer the world-and to profit-is a brilliant idea. In his previous best seller Chris Anderson discussed the long tail of bits, that described how open source software products that served a niche market collectively take up a larger market share than the large bestselling products. In his latest Wired story he argues that thanks to the democratization of the tools of manufacturing, we're starting to see a new mo...
Storyboard: Episode 13 - How Success Killed Duke Nukem
January 19, 2010 12:00 - 10 minutes - 9.91 MBAfter more than 10 years of development and millions of dollars down the drain, Duke Nukem Forever will probably never see the light of day. It's the biggest video game failure ever. Released in 1996, Duke Nukem 3D changed the way the world thought about video games. So when it came time to make a sequel, the game's developer 3D realms set out to make Duke Nukem Forever surpass every other game that had ever existed. Thanks to the success of Duke Nukem 3D, the firm had unlimited time and mone...
Storyboard: Episode 12 - Rants and Raves about "An Epidemic of Fear"
January 08, 2010 12:00 - 9 minutes - 9.05 MBAmy Wallace's story debunking the theory that vaccines cause autism was so controversial that we received hundreds of letters, emails and online comments in response. Why is this debate so polarizing? It turns out there is a whole spectrum of opinions on the matter. This week assistant research Rachel Swaby and senior research editor Jonanna Pearlstein read some of the comments as well as well discussing the evidence on both sides of the debate.
Storyboard: Episode 11 - The End of the Air War in Afghanistan
December 29, 2009 12:00 - 14 minutes - 13.7 MBWhy is it so hard to call air strikes in Afghanistan? Wired sent Noah Shachtman to Afghanistan to learn about the war in the air. Shortly after taking control of US forces in Afghanistan, General Stanley A. McChrystal put an end to the air war by making it almost impossible to call air strikes. He argues that the United States' enormous technological advantage in the air makes it easy to win battles, but harder to win the war. Every dead Afghan civilian sets the war effort back. But with en...
Storyboard: Episode 10 - James Cameron's "Avatar"
November 24, 2009 12:00 - 15 minutes - 13.9 MBThe December issue of Wired has two feature stories about "Avatar." The first story, “The Creation” by Frank Rose examines the unique filmmaking technology behind Avatar. “Second Coming” by Joshua Davis delivers a penetrating profile of the man behind this $250 million science fiction thriller. On this weeks Storyboard, Nancy Miller is joined by Wired Articles Editor Mark Robinson and Joshua Davis to finally answer the question: what is "Avatar?" And will anybody care?
Storyboard: Episode 9 - The Answer Factory: Demand Media
November 10, 2009 12:00 - 7 minutes - 6.59 MBYou'll never guess the most profitable question on the internet. How do I donate I car in Dallas? Seriously. We don't know why, and we didn't figure it out, an did. algorithm Founded by veteran startup guru Richard Rosenblatt, Demand Media is a fiendishly clever firm that's revolutionizing, by shear mass, the way we find information online. The company knows what we're googling and churns out cheap videos and articles to meet our every demand. The company publishes more than 4,000 articles an...
Storyboard: Episode 8 - Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great job!
November 03, 2009 12:00 - 10 minutes - 9.91 MBWIRED staff love "Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!" Believe it or not, the demented antics of Tim Heidecker and Eric Warheim might be the future of comedy. Why? It's hard to explain. WIRED senior editors Chris Baker and Robert Capps discuss Brian Raftery's feature in the November 2009 issue.
Storyboard: Episode 7 - Intelligence Redesigned
October 20, 2009 12:00 - 12 minutes - 11.6 MBThe text books written by Roy A. Gallant taught a generation of students that science could also be art. Wired Senior Art Director Carl DeTorres discusses how "Intlleligence Redesigned" was born with a musty text at a flea market. Wired ditches the nostalgia and revises the work of classic artists with the help of graphic artists and researcher Timothy Leslie.
Storyboard: Episode 6 - An Epidemic of Fear
October 20, 2009 12:00 - 11 minutes - 19.7 MBClaims that vaccines cause autism are not only untrue, they're dangerous. Executive Editor Thomas Goetz joins Nancy Miller for a conversation about the "An Epidemic of Fear," Wired's November cover story by Amy Wallace.
Storyboard: Episode 5 - The Slow and The Furious
October 13, 2009 12:00 - 9 minutes - 19.7 MBNancy Miller is joined by Senior Editor Mark McClusky and Senior Photo Editor Zana Woods for a behind the scenes look at a feature in the October 2009 issue of Wired, "The Slow and the Furious." At Florida's largest retirement community, seniors are hot-rodding the the golf carts they use to get around- on and off the course.
Storyboard: Episode 4 - The 2009 Smartlist
October 09, 2009 12:00 - 13 minutes - 19.7 MBThis week Nancy Miller hosts a conversation between Wired Senior Editor Nick Thompson and Executive Editor Thomas Goetz about Wired Magazine's 2009 Smart List. 12 Dangerous (possibly brilliant) ideas.
Storyboard: Episode 3
September 29, 2009 12:00 - 24 minutes - 19.7 MBFirst a conversation between Wired Contributing Editor Daniel Roth and Senior Editor Nick Thompson. Nick wrote an article about a Soviet Doomsday Machine built at the end of the cold war and has a new book out called "The Hawk and the Dove." Next Nancy Miller talks to Chris Baker about the piece he edited, which describes in humorous detail the war between Project Chanology and The Church of Scientology.
Storyboard: Episode 2
September 15, 2009 12:00 - 23 minutes - 19.7 MBThe Placebo Problem: Sugar Pills Are Getting More Effective and Drug Companies are Desperate to Know Why-- Senior Editor Nancy Miller hosts a conversation between articles editor Mark Robinson and Steve Silberman about pharmaceutical advertising, bedside manner and why Italian men find little blue pills so invigorating (hint: It has to do with scoring!). The Good Enough Revolution: Why Lo-Fi High Tech Will Rule the World-- If you’re still clinging to your vinyl record collection and complaini...
Storyboard: Episode 1
August 28, 2009 12:00 - 17 minutes - 19.7 MBThe pressure is on. The boss notices you’ve maxed out the company credit card on “business trips” to Barbados and lavish dinners with important “clients” like your best friend’s wife. Some people fess up and face the music. Others fake their deaths, ditch their lives and try to start over. Senior Editor Nancy Miller hosts a discussion between Executive Editor Thomas Goetz and Evan Ratliff about what it takes to really disappear. Evan also details his vanishing act experiment. He’s currently o...