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Each week we bring you a new feature from Wired magazine.

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Episodes

  1. Heart of Darkness by Brian Raftery

    Filmmaker 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

  2. Dave Sanders, (Not So) Special Agent by Joshua Davis

    Fiber-optics exec by day, gun-toting defender of justice by night. Issue 19.12, December 2011

  3. CEO of the Internet by Steven Levy

    Amazon founder Jeff Bezos talks about the new Kindle Fire, cloud computing, social media, and sending people into space. Issue 19.12, December 2011

  4. Bitcoin's Rise and Fall by Benjamin Wallace

    The story of the virtual currency you can actually spend—if it doesn't get stolen first. Issue 19.12, December 2011

  5. Are We There Yet? by Bill Donahue

    Six 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

  6. Mystery Box by Andrew Curry

    Last 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

  7. The Second Coming by Steven Levy

    A 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

  8. The Olfactory by Courtney Humphries

    Many 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?

  9. Enigma by Peter Savodnik

    A Russian shortwave radio station has been broadcasting mysterious patterns of beeps for decades. Why?

  10. Scare Tactics by Benjamin Wallace

    How two scammers built an empire by selling malevolent cures for fake computer viruses. Issue 19.10, October 2011

  11. How to Hatch a Dinosaur by Thomas Hayden

    How scientists are trying to reverse-evolve a chicken into a dinosaur. Issue 19.10, October 2011

  12. The Cult of Bang & Olufsen by Rob Walker

    Can the Danish electronics company's far-out vision of the future survive in Apple's world? Issue 19.10, October 2011

  13. Winging It by Adam Fisher

    Ridiculously 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

  14. Hey Pencil Neck! by Ben Austen

    What caricatures can teach us about facial recognition. Issue 19.08, August 2011

  15. Let There Be LED by Dan Koeppel

    The 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

  16. Going, Going, Gone by James Surowiecki

    Auctions were supposed to be the new way to buy and sell everything. It didn't turn out that way. Issue 19.06, June 2011

  17. The One-Armed-Bandit Bandit by Brendan I. Koerner

    How one man hacked his way into the super-secretive slot-machine industry. Issue 19.08, August 2011

  18. Liquid Gold by Judy Dutton

    Inside the booming market for nature's miracle: breast milk. Issue 19.06, June 2011

  19. End of the Black Box by Jerry Adler

    When 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

  20. Bad Reputation by Jennifer Couzin-Frankel

    The 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

  21. Half Life by Adam Higginbotham

    Twenty-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

  22. Meet Generation Y by Steven Levy

    Many 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

  23. The Feedback Loop by Thomas Goetz

    How technology has turned an age-old concept into an exciting new strategy for changing human behavior. Issue 19.07, July 2011

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