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2008Atomic John: Truck driver uncovers secrets about first nuclear bombs (newyorker.com)
104 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 7 comments
2014A Gene That Makes You Need Less Sleep? (newyorker.com)
104 points | 4 years ago with 54 comments
2014“Person of Interest”: The TV Show That Predicted Edward Snowden (newyorker.com)
93 points | 8 years ago with 35 comments
2016How people learn to become resilient (newyorker.com)
93 points | 2 years ago with 79 comments
2014The Last Survivors of Meridian 59 (newyorker.com)
89 points | 6 years ago with 17 comments
2016On Reading Issues of Wired from 1993 to 1995 (newyorker.com)
87 points | 4 years ago with 32 comments
2008Late Bloomers: Why Do We Equate Genius with Precocity? (newyorker.com)
87 points | 5 years ago with 41 comments
2017Fernando Pessoa’s Disappearing Act (newyorker.com)
83 points | 3 years ago with 46 comments
1954The First Sherpa to Climb to the Top of Mt. Everest (newyorker.com)
81 points | 10 months ago with 43 comments
1981A.I. (newyorker.com)
81 points | 8 months ago with 50 comments
2016London’s Super-Recognizer Police Force (newyorker.com)
81 points | 5 years ago with 32 comments
2007Was the Antikythera Mechanism the world’s first computer? (newyorker.com)
80 points | 5 years ago with 56 comments
2012Altered States: Self-Experiments in Chemistry (newyorker.com)
80 points | 7 years ago with 8 comments
2013A Pickpocket's Tale (newyorker.com)
79 points | 5 years ago with 6 comments
2019The Histories Hidden in the Periodic Table (newyorker.com)
79 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 1 comments
2007The Checklist (newyorker.com)
78 points | 12 years ago with 25 comments
2015Can the Internet Be Archived? (newyorker.com)
78 points | 6 years ago with 65 comments
1996Why I Wrote “The Crucible” (newyorker.com)
77 points | 3 years ago with 86 comments
2012Decades after a Cold War experiment, a scientist lives with secrets (newyorker.com)
76 points | 7 years ago with 14 comments
2008Up and Then Down: The lives of elevators (newyorker.com)
76 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 13 comments
2017Before the Internet (newyorker.com)
74 points | 5 years ago with 31 comments
2011Portugal decriminalized drugs a decade ago – what have we learned? (newyorker.com)
73 points | 9 years ago with 63 comments
1982“Blade Runner” has its own look, and a place in film history (newyorker.com)
73 points | 1 year ago with 64 comments
2017The persistence of prog rock (newyorker.com)
73 points | 7 months ago with 54 comments
2010The Truth Wears Off (newyorker.com)
72 points | 6 years ago with 16 comments
2017A few words about that ten-million-dollar serial comma (newyorker.com)
69 points | 2 years ago with 89 comments
2014Which Is the Best John Le Carré Novel? (newyorker.com)
68 points | 4 years ago with 35 comments
2011The Libertarian Futurism of Peter Thiel (newyorker.com)
67 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 66 comments
2014A Canticle for Leibowitz Still Smolders (newyorker.com)
66 points | 5 years ago with 17 comments
2014The Story of “How About Never” (newyorker.com)
66 points | 6 months ago with 16 comments
2012Stanford – The Get Rich University (newyorker.com)
65 points | 8 years ago with 42 comments
2013A Prion Love Story (newyorker.com)
64 points | 5 years ago with 7 comments
2015Albert Einstein’s Sci-Fi Stories (newyorker.com)
64 points | 4 years ago with 19 comments
2011Creation Myth – Xerox PARC, Apple, and the truth about innovation (newyorker.com)
64 points | 9 years ago with 29 comments
2013The Chaos of the Dice: A backgammon hustler’s quest to gain an edge (newyorker.com)
63 points | 3 years ago with 34 comments
2010Why Is It So Difficult to Develop Drugs for Cancer? (newyorker.com)
63 points | 8 years ago with 71 comments
1930Heavier Than Air (newyorker.com)
62 points | 4 years ago with 16 comments
2015To Fall Out of Love, Do This (newyorker.com)
62 points | 3 years ago with 59 comments
2013The Cicada's Love Affair with Prime Numbers (newyorker.com)
62 points | 2 years ago with 13 comments
2010Cancer World: The making of a modern disease (newyorker.com)
61 points | 7 years ago with 9 comments
2014The dispute between radical feminism and transgenderism (newyorker.com)
60 points | 2 years ago with 249 comments
2007The Dark Side: Making War on Light Pollution (newyorker.com)
60 points | 9 years ago with 9 comments
2018Why Paper Jams Persist (newyorker.com)
59 points | 2 years ago with 23 comments
2007Has a remote Amazonian tribe upended our understanding of language? (newyorker.com)
59 points | 2 years ago with 82 comments
1975Hannah Arendt: Remembering W.H. Auden (newyorker.com)
59 points | 5 years ago with 9 comments
1970Autobiographical Notes by Jorge Luis Borges (newyorker.com)
58 points | 1 year ago with 15 comments
2017Remembering the Murder You Didn’t Commit (newyorker.com)
58 points | 5 years ago with 47 comments
1953Albert Camus: The Life of the Artist – A Mimodrama in Two Parts (newyorker.com)
57 points | 10 years ago with 26 comments
1993Secrets of the Magus (newyorker.com)
57 points | 10 years ago with 6 comments
1993Email from Bill (newyorker.com)
56 points | 1 year ago with 44 comments
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