Wired Features
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Synopsis
Each week we bring you a new feature from Wired magazine.
Episodes
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Heart of Darkness by Brian Raftery
16/12/2011 Duration: 28minFilmmaker 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
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Dave Sanders, (Not So) Special Agent by Joshua Davis
13/12/2011 Duration: 53minFiber-optics exec by day, gun-toting defender of justice by night. Issue 19.12, December 2011
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CEO of the Internet by Steven Levy
06/12/2011 Duration: 27minAmazon founder Jeff Bezos talks about the new Kindle Fire, cloud computing, social media, and sending people into space. Issue 19.12, December 2011
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Bitcoin's Rise and Fall by Benjamin Wallace
02/12/2011 Duration: 30minThe story of the virtual currency you can actually spend—if it doesn't get stolen first. Issue 19.12, December 2011
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Are We There Yet? by Bill Donahue
22/11/2011 Duration: 26minSix 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
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Mystery Box by Andrew Curry
16/11/2011 Duration: 32minLast 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
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The Second Coming by Steven Levy
07/11/2011 Duration: 25minA 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
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The Olfactory by Courtney Humphries
03/11/2011 Duration: 27minMany 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?
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Enigma by Peter Savodnik
19/10/2011 Duration: 27minA Russian shortwave radio station has been broadcasting mysterious patterns of beeps for decades. Why?
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Scare Tactics by Benjamin Wallace
11/10/2011 Duration: 25minHow two scammers built an empire by selling malevolent cures for fake computer viruses. Issue 19.10, October 2011
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How to Hatch a Dinosaur by Thomas Hayden
04/10/2011 Duration: 24minHow scientists are trying to reverse-evolve a chicken into a dinosaur. Issue 19.10, October 2011
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The Cult of Bang & Olufsen by Rob Walker
27/09/2011 Duration: 20minCan the Danish electronics company's far-out vision of the future survive in Apple's world? Issue 19.10, October 2011
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Winging It by Adam Fisher
20/09/2011 Duration: 35minRidiculously 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
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Hey Pencil Neck! by Ben Austen
12/09/2011 Duration: 25minWhat caricatures can teach us about facial recognition. Issue 19.08, August 2011
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Let There Be LED by Dan Koeppel
06/09/2011 Duration: 32minThe 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
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Going, Going, Gone by James Surowiecki
30/08/2011 Duration: 21minAuctions were supposed to be the new way to buy and sell everything. It didn't turn out that way. Issue 19.06, June 2011
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The One-Armed-Bandit Bandit by Brendan I. Koerner
22/08/2011 Duration: 27minHow one man hacked his way into the super-secretive slot-machine industry. Issue 19.08, August 2011
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Liquid Gold by Judy Dutton
15/08/2011 Duration: 22minInside the booming market for nature's miracle: breast milk. Issue 19.06, June 2011
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End of the Black Box by Jerry Adler
08/08/2011 Duration: 25minWhen 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
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Bad Reputation by Jennifer Couzin-Frankel
03/08/2011 Duration: 25minThe 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