ALEX PASTERNACK
Η Γυναίκα που «Έπιασε» τον Snowden
Το ντοκιμαντέρ της Laura Poitras με θέμα την κατασκοπεία, που κατέληξε σε «θρίλερ».
Η Πατρίδα του Ελαιόλαδου και της Μοτσαρέλας Είναι η Χωματερή της Μαφίας
Ένα περιβαλλοντικό πρόβλημα με νομικές και κοινωνικές προεκτάσεις.
Toyo Ito's Biggest Building: A Stadium That's Secretly a Solar Power Plant
2013 Pritzker Prize winner Toyo Ito began his career with luminous and transparent houses in his native Japan. But a sports stadium put him on the map.
A Meteor Exploded Above Russia This Morning
While the world waits for an asteroid to graze the orbits of our television satellites, citizens of central Russia were greeted this morning by a more mortality shaking kind of astronomical event: a giant meteorite exploded across the atmosphere.
Impossible Is Dead
Aleksey Vayner, the Yale graduate who garnered the internet's mistrust for a video résumé he made called “Impossible is Nothing,” has died at the age of 29. According to IvyGate, the website that first reported on his fabrications in 2006, the cause of...
Was Lance Armstrong Taking Jerk-Enhancing Drugs?
The interview that Lance Armstrong gave to Oprah Winfrey was a masterful slice of a never-ending sports-fabulism spectacle, and while it made for good TV at times, it was also nearly infuriating to watch.
Censorship Protests Are Erupting in China Because No One Likes to Drink Toxic Chemicals
Last week, nine tons of aniline, a toxic chemical, poisoned Changzhi's water supply. After citizens took to the web to demand an explanation for why they hadn't been informed of the leak, Beijing started to clamp down on free speech.
'Zero Dark Thirty': Interrogating Reality
The "problem" with "Zero Dark Thirty"'s portrayal of torture isn't the portrayal itself, but what it represents. Even though waterboarding is now prohibited, that hasn't diminished its value for some in government. To assume torture is a thing of the...
The Other Shooter
A look at Abraham Zapruder's footage of the JFK hit, the saddest and most expensive 26 seconds of amateur film ever shot.
If WiFi Is Water, Electricity Is Fire
In Hurricane Sandy's wake, blacked-out New York City's biggest charging station was like a 21st Century bonfire.
The Kremlin Wants to Keep Kids Off Wi-Fi
Just who would be responsible for keeping young people off Wi-Fi – the service providers or owners of businesses – is unclear, especially in cities like Moscow, where the government has already begun a plan that would seem utterly at odds with this...