A war on "prediabetes" has created millions of new patients and a
tempting opportunity for pharma. But how real is the condition?
By Charles Pillar
Copyright © 2019
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Read by David Erdody
34 minutes
Sue and Hector Badeau adopted twenty children who needed a home
—but there were always more.
By Larissa MacFarquhuar
Copyright © 2015 The New Yorker
Read by Teri Clark Linden
64 minutes
WHAT WE THINK ABOUT WHEN WE RUN
By Kathryn Schulz
Copyright © 2015 The New Yorker
Read by Jo Anna Perrin
19 minutes
In an era of high-stakes testing, a struggling school made a shocking choice
By Rachel Aviv
Copyright © 2014 The New Yorker
Read by Teri Clark Linden
62 minutes
How an industrial designer became Apple’s greatest product.
By Ian Parker
Copyright © 2015 The New Yorker
Read by David Erdody
109 minutes
Vegetarian cookbooks for carnivores.
By Jane Kramer
Copyright © 2014 The New Yorker
Read by Teri Clark Linden
30 minutes
PIXEL AND DIMED:
ON (NOT) GETTING BY IN THE GIG ECONOMY
For one month the author became the "micro entrepreneur" touted by companies like TaskRabbit, Postmates and Airbnb.
by Sarah Kessler
Copyright © 2014 Fast Company
Read by Jo Anna Perrin
60 minutes
How 3-D printing is revolutionizing medicine.
By Jerome Groopman
Copyright © 2014 The New Yorker
Read by David Erdody
29 minutes
Reading The Mind’s Eye, Oliver Sacks’s latest book, is like standing in that ray of sunlight: it questions perception.
by Sue Halpern
Copyright © 2011 The New York Review of Books
Read by Teri Clark Linden
22 minutes
One character most
frequently altered by writers, dramatists, and filmmakers is James
Barrie’s Peter Pan. As a result he and his adventures have become
immensely famous.
by Alison Lurie
Copyright © 2012 The New York Review of Books
Read by Teri Clark Linden
31 minutes
Thomas Piketty, professor
at the Paris School of Economics, isn’t a household name, although that
may change with the English-language publication of his magnificent,
sweeping meditation on inequality, Capital in the Twenty First Century.
by Paul Krugman
Copyright © 2014 The New York Review of Books
Read by David Erdody
28 minutes
How politics became a business.
by Jill Lepore
Copyright © 2012 The New Yorker
Read by Teri Clark Linden
50 minutes
HOW TO ESCAPE THE COMMUNITY-COLLEGE TRAP
More than half of community-colleges students never earn a degree. Here’s how to fix that.
By Ann Hulbert
Copyright © 2014 by The Atlantic Monthly
Read by Jo Anna Perrin
25 minutes
Has the self-driving car at last arrived?
by Burkhard Bilger
Copyright © 2013 The New Yorker
Read by David Erdody
66 minutes
How did we get so busy?
by Elizabeth Kolbert
Copyright © 2014 The New Yorker
Read by Jo Anna Perrin
25 minutes
The science of sleeplessness.
by Elizabeth Kolbert
Copyright © 2013 The New Yorker
Read by Teri Clark Linden
23 minutes
The Promise and Perils of the Synbio Revolution.
by Laurie Garrett
Copyright © 2013 the Council on Foreign Relations
Read by David Erdody
46 minutes
WHAT’S INSIDE AMERICA’S BANKS?
Some four years after the 2008 financial crisis, public trust in banks is as low as ever.
By Frank Partnoy and Jesse Eisinger
Copyright © 2013 by The Atlantic Monthly
Read by David Erdody
75 minutes
Lyndon Johnson and the events in Dallas.
by Robert A. Caro
Copyright © 2012 by The New Yorker
Read by David Erdody
92 minutes
One woman’s decision to go back to work.
By Caitlin Flanagan
Copyright © 2010 by The New Yorker
Read by Kaili Vernoff
31 minutes
Can the body’s immune response help treat cancer?
by Jerome Groopman
Copyright © 2012 by The New Yorker
Read by David Erdody
30 minutes
The Constitution and its worshippers.
by Jill Lepore
Copyright © 2010 by The New Yorker
Read by Jo Anna Perrin
45 minutes
How the new sciences of human nature can help make sense of a life.
by David Brooks
Copyright © 2011 by The New Yorker
Read by Johnny Heller
35 minutes
Top athletes and singers have coaches. Should you?
by Atul Gawande
Copyright © 2011 by The New Yorker
Read by David Erdody
48 minutes
The man who taught rulers how to rule.
by Claudia Roth Pierpont
Copyright © 2008 by The New Yorker
Read by Kaili Vernoff
39 mintues
Has the future of college moved online?
by Nathan Heller
Copyright © 2013 by The New Yorker
Read by David Erdody
60 minutes
Should we worry about the rise of the drone?
by Nick Paumgarten
Copyright © 2012 by The New Yorker
Read by David Erdody
39 minutes
THE SURE THING
How entrepreneurs really succeed.
By Malcolm Gladwell
Copyright © 2010 by The New Yorker
Read by David Erdody
34 minutes
FROM DICTATORSHIP TO DEMOCRACY
A Conceptual Framework for Liberation
by Gene Sharp
Copyright © 1993 The Albert Einstein Institution
Read by David Erdody
155 minutes
Are we losing the battle against cyber crime?
by John Seabrook
(strong language advisory)
Copyright © 2013 by The New Yorker
Read by David Erdody
40 minutes
(strong language advisory)
Washington State discovers that it’s not so easy to create a legal marijuana economy.
by Patrick Radden Keefe
Copyright © 2013 The New Yorker
Read by David Erdody
61 minutes
THE DOCTOR WHO MADE A REVOLUTION
By the
time Dr. Sara Josephine Baker retired from the New York City Health
Department in 1923, she was famous across the nation for saving the
lives of 90,000 inner-city children.
By Helen Epstein
Copyright © 2013 The New Yorker Review of Books
Read by Jo Anna Perrin
25 minutes
Young children—even toddlers—are spending more and more time with digital technology. What will it mean for their development?
By Hanna Rosin
Copyright © 2013 by The Atlantic Monthly
Read by Teri Clark Linden
50 minutes
Vince Lombardi and America’s game.
by Adam Gopnick
Copyright © 2011 by The New Yorker
Read by Scott Chapin
25 minutes
THE APOSTATE
(strong language advisory)
Paul Haggis vs. the Church of Scientology.
by Lawrence Wright
Copyright © 2011 by The New Yorker
Read by David Erdody
162 minutes
George Washington scales new heights.
by Jill Lepore
Copyright © 2010 The New Yorker
Read by Teri Clark Linden
In the race to build computers that can think like humans, the proving ground is the Turing
Test.
By Brian Christian
Copyright © 2011 by The Atlantic Monthly
Read by David Erdody
58 minutes
Is there something wrong with the scientific method?
by Jonah Lehrer
Copyright © 2010 by The New Yorker
Read by Raymond Todd
33 minutes
Is there a technological solution to global warming?
by Michael Specter
Copyright © 2012 by The New Yorker
Read by David Erdody
37 minutes
Why do people love Stieg Larsson’s novels?
by Joan Acocella
Copyright © 2010 by The New Yorker
Read by Jo Anna Perrin
28 minutes
Alzheimer’s researchers seek a new approach.
by Jerome Groopman
Copyright © 2013 by The New Yorker
Read by David Erdody
32 minutes
Julian Assange’s mission for total transparency.
By Raffi Khatchadourian
(strong language advisory)
Copyright © 2010 by The New Yorker
Read by David Erdody
63 minutes
THE END OF MEN
For years, women’s progress has been cast as a struggle for equality. But what if equality isn’t the end point?
By Hanna Rosin
Copyright © 2010 by The Atlantic Monthly
Read by Teri Clark Linden
62 minutes
To environmentalists, “clean coal” is an insulting oxymoron. The good news is that new technologies are making this possible.
By James Fallows
Copyright © 2010 by The Atlantic Monthly
Read by David Erdody
55 minutes
Disassembling the planet for Powder River coal
by John McPhee
Copyright © 2005 The New Yorker
Read by David Erdody
110 minutes
