Wired Storyboard Audio Podcast

WIRED staff love "Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!" Believe it or not, the demented antics of Tim Heidecker and Eric Warheim might be the future of comedy. Why? It's hard to explain. WIRED senior editors Chris Baker and Robert Capps discuss Brian Raftery's feature in the November 2009 issue.

Claims that vaccines cause autism are not only untrue, they're dangerous. Executive Editor Thomas Goetz joins Nancy Miller for a conversation about the "An Epidemic of Fear," Wired's November cover story by Amy Wallace.

The text books written by Roy A. Gallant taught a generation of students that science could also be art. Wired Senior Art Director Carl DeTorres discusses how "Intlleligence Redesigned" was born with a musty text at a flea market. Wired ditches the nostalgia and revises the work of classic artists with the help of graphic artists and researcher Timothy Leslie.

Nancy Miller is joined by Senior Editor Mark McClusky and Senior Photo Editor Zana Woods for a behind the scenes look at a feature in the October 2009 issue of Wired, "The Slow and the Furious." At Florida's largest retirement community, seniors are hot-rodding the the golf carts they use to get around- on and off the course.

This week Nancy Miller hosts a conversation between Wired Senior Editor Nick Thompson and Executive Editor Thomas Goetz about Wired Magazine's 2009 Smart List. 12 Dangerous (possibly brilliant) ideas.

First a conversation between Wired Contributing Editor Daniel Roth and Senior Editor Nick Thompson. Nick wrote an article about a Soviet Doomsday Machine built at the end of the cold war and has a new book out called "The Hawk and the Dove." Next Nancy Miller talks to Chris Baker about the piece he edited, which describes in humorous detail the war between Project Chanology and The Church of Scientology.

The Placebo Problem: Sugar Pills Are Getting More Effective and Drug Companies are Desperate to Know Why-- Senior Editor Nancy Miller hosts a conversation between articles editor Mark Robinson and Steve Silberman about pharmaceutical advertising, bedside manner and why Italian men find little blue pills so invigorating (hint: It has to do with scoring!). The Good Enough Revolution: Why Lo-Fi High Tech Will Rule the World-- If you’re still clinging to your vinyl record collection and complaining about the quality of MP3s, you’re in the minority. Nancy and Mark talk to Robert Capps about digital technology’s crappifying effect on almost everything—and why we’re better off this way.

The pressure is on. The boss notices you’ve maxed out the company credit card on “business trips” to Barbados and lavish dinners with important “clients” like your best friend’s wife. Some people fess up and face the music. Others fake their deaths, ditch their lives and try to start over. Senior Editor Nancy Miller hosts a discussion between Executive Editor Thomas Goetz and Evan Ratliff about what it takes to really disappear. Evan also details his vanishing act experiment. He’s currently on the lam. If you can find him before September 15th, you’ll win $5,000. From Crank calls, to viral YouTube pranksters, and tweets from celebrity-imposters, it’s never been easier to find suckers to fool. Nancy and fellow Senior Editor Jason Tanz discuss the anatomy of a perfect hoax.