The remarkable story of the shipworm, a wood eating mollusk that has plagued mariners for hundreds of years, and has had a resurgence due to a variety of factors including the large quantities of debris washed out to sea by the 2011 Japanese tsunami.
A story looking at the sheer complexity and scale involved in designing the floating cities that make up modern cruise ships. http://bit.ly/wired-cruise
A piece revisiting the alternative virtual world Second Life, which is still surviving and even generating significant revenues, despite receding from popular consciousness in the last decade.
The story of Nasa’s evocatively named Operation IceBridge.
This piece, an artistic appreciation of computer screen savers, doesn’t hesitate to use three long words where one short one would suffice, and cites sources from Borges to Escher. Alongside that it retains an infectious enthusiasm for these artefacts of an earlier age of the web.
A reporter spends time with the highly armed, highly trained militias roaming the US-Mexico border on their own private missions.
The dark and unsettling story of a case of suspected Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome that had tragic consequences.
A piece looking at the potential impact of carbon capture technology on climate change including analysis of large scale trends across different energy sources, industries, and parts of the globe.
A man is walking by a graveyard in Oslo and hears a wail. It is a newborn baby, abandoned with only a plastic bag for protection, and close to death. This is the remarkable story of what happened next.