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Book Excerpt
A New Look Inside Theranos’ Dysfunctional Corporate Culture
By John Carreyrou
When a chemist raised concerns about the blood testing machines’ high error rates, she was ignored. So she resigned.
Fish Farming
The Laser Battle Against Blood-Sucking Parasites of the Deep
By Amanda Little
What can salmon farmers do against the scourge of tiny fish-killing sea lice? Fry them with lasers.
Call of Duty
The Untold Story of Robert Mueller’s Time in Combat
By Garrett M. Graff
Mueller’s job is to make sense of how Russia hacked the 2016 election. But to make sense of Mueller, you have to revisit Vietnam’s bloodiest battles.
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Ideas
The Truth-Affirming Powers of a Good, Old-Fashioned Netflix Binge
By Virginia Heffernan
Online, the barriers between fiction and nonfiction blur. But there’s a throwback way to right this disorientation.
Ideas
The Catch-22 of Mass-Prescribing Antibiotics
By Maryn McKenna
Researchers have found that seemingly unnecessary drugs are saving lives in the developing world. Is that worth the threat of antibiotic resistance?
Xbox Underground
The Teens Who Hacked a Videogame Empire—And Went Too Far
By Brendan Koerner
Among those involved in David Pokora’s so-called Xbox Underground, one would become an informant, one would become a fugitive, and one would end up dead.
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