OTL: Michael Jordan Has Not Left The Building
A 2013 profile of Michael Jordan as he turned 50 is a well-wrought study of one of the most high profile professional athletes of all time.
The haunting of Girlstown
The story of a strange outbreak at a Catholic school in Mexico in 2006. Girls reported pain in their legs, nausea, and fever. When the cases spread to hundreds of pupils, the government sent a psychiatrist specialised in adolescents experiencing psychosomatic illnesses to investigate. The story is currently being turned into a film.
Thirty-six Thousand Feet Under the Sea
An occasionally deeply tense read that examines the work of a “proper band of thieves” exploring deep parts of the sea.
When SimCity Got Serious: The Story of Maxis Business Simulations
The extraordinary story of how SimCity’s makers created business strategy simulation games for clients.
Google Research
Google has created a compulsively addictive word game built on an AI trained on “billions of conversations from the internet”, with the goal of better predicting what words will come next in a conversation (for anyone feeling competitive the current Journal high score is just over 6000).
Le Cantiche
A beatifully designed and developed tribute to Dante’s The Divine Comedy, released 700 years after the work was written.
Since I Met Edward Snowden, I’ve Never Stopped Watching My Back
A journalist writes about the alarming degree of surveillance and suspected hacking he was subject to after working with Edward Snowden on a major story, and the paranoia it engendered.