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For All to Seek
A Deadly Hunt for Hidden Treasure Spawns an Online Mystery
By David Kushner
An epic riddle. An eccentric storyteller. A missing person. When a man vanishes in the wilderness, his family takes to the internet to find him.
Physics
The Peculiar Math That Could Underlie the Laws of Nature
By Natalie Wolchover
New findings are fueling an old suspicion that fundamental particles and forces spring from strange eight-part numbers called “octonions.”
Times of Whoa
Elon Musk Is Broken, and We Have Broken Him
By Alex Davies
The CEO’s increasingly erratic behavior is putting Tesla at risk. And there’s blame to go around.
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Domination!
Sex, Beer, and Coding: Inside Facebook’s Wild Early Days
By Adam Fisher
When the young Mark Zuckerberg moved to Palo Alto in 2004, he and his buddies built a corporate proto-culture that continues to influence the company today.
Book Excerpt
The Ultra-Pure, Super-Secret Sand That Makes Your Phone Possible
By Vince Beiser
The processor that makes your laptop or cell phone work was fabricated using quartz from this obscure Appalachian backwater.
Ideas
The Genetics (and Ethics) of Making Humans Fit for Mars
By Jason Pontin
We could make people less stinky, more resistant to radiation, even less dependent on food and oxygen. But would the new creature be human?
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