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.
The System That Actually Worked
The internet has dealt with unprecendented levels of traffic during lockdown, and has largely managed to cope.
Online collection
The British Museum has revamped its online collection and it is impressive, a treasure trove of high quality images from the collection accompanied with explanatory notes, curated and tagged for easy discovery.
The Confessions of Marcus Hutchins, the Hacker Who Saved the Internet
The compelling story of a hacker who stopped a massive cyber-attack, only to be arrested.