Wired Storyboard Audio Podcast

Preserving human organic material is complicated. It doesn't help that the nations biobanks—Huge libraries of flesh—use out-moded and inadequate technology. Writer Steve Silberman discusses his feature from the June issue of Wired with Articles Editor Robert Capps.

In the series finale, the score of Lost kept viewers on their toes and drew more than a few tears. Erik Malinowski talks to Nancy Miller about how composer Michael Giacchino and writer Eddy Kitsis orchestrated the sounds that kept us watching the series.

Nancy Miller plumbs the depths of Lost with senior editor Joanna Pearlstein, who talks about her conversation with the creators of lost and a theoretical physicist.

The iPad is Apple's hot new thing, and we take a look at how it will change your life in the April issue of Wired.

YouTube recently celebrated its fifth birthday, and in the April issue of Wired we take a look a look back at the five secrets that have made YouTube one of the most successful sites on the internet.

Don your foil hats for a look at “Geeks Versus Spies”, Noah Shachtman’s essay about breaking up the NSA, and two other front-of-the-book pieces from Wired's April issue. Editors Robert Capps, Chris Baker, and Adam Rogers break down these three tasty chunks of Wired goodness and discuss how they arrived in the pages of your magazine.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the time of scarce bandwidth, it was the time of 24 hour ice cream delivery. Senior Editor Joanna Pearlstein reminisces with contributors Matt Honan and Steven Leckart about the Dotcom era's major players, massive failures, and missed opportunities. And the schwag. Oh, the schwag.

Life is complicated—especially when it comes to our health. Once we reach a certain age, we start to realize that health is variable, not a constant. On this weeks Storyboard story editor Sarah Fallon hosts a conversation with executive editor Thomas Goetz about the exclusive excerpt from his book in the February issue of WIRED. It's called "The Decision Tree: Taking Control of Your Health in the New Era of Personalized Medicine"

How do you put products designed to withstand the most extreme conditions to the test? After all, burly bulletproof vests are all tested and rated by professionals before they're ever available to the public. So in the March issue of Wired, our testers took rugged gear designed for extreme conditions and pushed the limits of it's capabilities. On this episode of Storyboard, Associate Editor Joe Brown and Contributing Editor Mat Honan talk about unloading clips into bulletproof vests, getting lost in the sub-zero wilderness, and unleashing animals on bear resistant gear.

In an age of open source, custom-fabricated, DIY product design all you need to conquer the world-and to profit-is a brilliant idea. In his previous best seller Chris Anderson discussed the long tail of bits, that described how open source software products that served a niche market collectively take up a larger market share than the large bestselling products. In his latest Wired story he argues that thanks to the democratization of the tools of manufacturing, we're starting to see a new movement towards the long tail of stuff. Is this the new industrial revolution?

After more than 10 years of development and millions of dollars down the drain, Duke Nukem Forever will probably never see the light of day. It's the biggest video game failure ever. Released in 1996, Duke Nukem 3D changed the way the world thought about video games. So when it came time to make a sequel, the game's developer 3D realms set out to make Duke Nukem Forever surpass every other game that had ever existed. Thanks to the success of Duke Nukem 3D, the firm had unlimited time and money; a factor which granted 3D Realms chief George Broussard the luxury to feel that Duke Nukem Forever wasn't ever ready. The supposedly almost finished game is currently locked up in litigation as 3D Realms and the game's publisher Take-Two Interactive duke it out in court. This week, Senior Editors Chris Baker and Mark McClusky talk about "How Success Killed Duke Nukem" by Clive Thompson. The story is part of the January 2010 cover package about failure.

Amy Wallace's story debunking the theory that vaccines cause autism was so controversial that we received hundreds of letters, emails and online comments in response. Why is this debate so polarizing? It turns out there is a whole spectrum of opinions on the matter. This week assistant research Rachel Swaby and senior research editor Jonanna Pearlstein read some of the comments as well as well discussing the evidence on both sides of the debate.

Why is it so hard to call air strikes in Afghanistan? Wired sent Noah Shachtman to Afghanistan to learn about the war in the air. Shortly after taking control of US forces in Afghanistan, General Stanley A. McChrystal put an end to the air war by making it almost impossible to call air strikes. He argues that the United States' enormous technological advantage in the air makes it easy to win battles, but harder to win the war. Every dead Afghan civilian sets the war effort back. But with enormous political pressure upon McChrystal and President Obama to accelerate the United States' exit from the region, can this new policy work? This week, Nancy Miller is joined by Senior Editor Robert Capps and Noah Schachtman to discuss "The End of the Air War" from The January issue of Wired.

The December issue of Wired has two feature stories about "Avatar." The first story, “The Creation” by Frank Rose examines the unique filmmaking technology behind Avatar. “Second Coming” by Joshua Davis delivers a penetrating profile of the man behind this $250 million science fiction thriller. On this weeks Storyboard, Nancy Miller is joined by Wired Articles Editor Mark Robinson and Joshua Davis to finally answer the question: what is "Avatar?" And will anybody care?

You'll never guess the most profitable question on the internet. How do I donate I car in Dallas? Seriously. We don't know why, and we didn't figure it out, an did. algorithm Founded by veteran startup guru Richard Rosenblatt, Demand Media is a fiendishly clever firm that's revolutionizing, by shear mass, the way we find information online. The company knows what we're googling and churns out cheap videos and articles to meet our every demand. The company publishes more than 4,000 articles and videos a day, and makes millions of dollars by selling premium advertising based on the search terms. The content isn't perfect, but hey, it's good enough. Will this type cheaply produced, targeted media soon supplant the need for journalists? On this week's Storyboard, WIRED senior editor Nicholas Thompson asks senior writer Daniel Roth about his November 2009 feature "The Answer Factory."