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  1. From The Big Story: What 800 Nerds on a Cruise Ship Taught Me About Life

    45 min

    To hear stories three days earlier, listen on The Big Story: ⁠⁠⁠⁠http://swap.fm/l/wi-bigstorypod-feeddrop Here’s what I learned sailing the seas with a boat full of “Sea Monkeys” celebrating geek culture while …

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    Here’s what I learned sailing the seas with a boat full of “Sea Monkeys” celebrating geek culture while inverting classic rules of social hierarchy.


    Written by Adam Rogers. Originally published on December 19th 2014.


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  2. From The Big Story: She Got a Great Deal on Egg Freezing. Then She Spiraled

    46 min

    To hear stories three days earlier, listen on The Big Story: ⁠⁠⁠⁠http://swap.fm/l/wi-bigstorypod-feeddrop A new startup called Cofertility lets young women freeze their eggs—for free. But is anything ever truly …

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    A new startup called Cofertility lets young women freeze their eggs—for free. But is anything ever truly free?


    Written by Maia Hibbett. Originally published on September 9th 2026.


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  3. From The Big Story: The Genesis Engine

    42 min

    To hear stories three days earlier, listen on The Big Story: ⁠⁠⁠⁠http://swap.fm/l/wi-bigstorypod-feeddrop We now have the power to quickly and easily alter DNA. It could eliminate disease. It could solve world …

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    We now have the power to quickly and easily alter DNA. It could eliminate disease. It could solve world hunger. It could provide unlimited clean energy. It could get really out of hand. 


    Written by Amy Maxmen. Originally published in August 2015.


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  4. From The Big Story: You Finally Got a Wikipedia Page. Then It Vanished

    31 min

    To hear stories three days earlier, listen on The Big Story: ⁠⁠⁠⁠http://swap.fm/l/wi-bigstorypod-feeddrop Every day, Wikipedia biographies of living people are flagged for deletion because the subjects are not …

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    Every day, Wikipedia biographies of living people are flagged for deletion because the subjects are not “notable” enough. How do these poor souls take the news?


    Written by Duncan Fyfe. Originally published on October 26th 2026.


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  5. The Big Fight Over 403 Very Small Wasps

    39 min

    To hear stories three days earlier, listen on The Big Story: ⁠⁠⁠⁠http://swap.fm/l/wi-bigstorypod-feeddrop Earth is teeming with unknown species, and they’re dying off faster than ever. Now biologists are …

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    Earth is teeming with unknown species, and they’re dying off faster than ever. Now biologists are battling over an old question: how to catalog life?


    Written by Brooke Jarvis. Originally published on November 10th 2022.


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  6. From The Big Story: How the CIA Used a Fake Sci-Fi Flick to Rescue Americans From Tehran

    37 min

    To hear stories three days earlier, listen on The Big Story: ⁠⁠⁠⁠http://swap.fm/l/wi-bigstorypod-feeddrop Sneaking six Americans out of Iran in 1979 would take an audacious plan, false identities, and an epic …

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    Sneaking six Americans out of Iran in 1979 would take an audacious plan, false identities, and an epic Hollywood cover story.


    Written by Joshuah Bearman. Originally published on April 24th, 2007.


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  7. From The Big Story: She Was the DEA’s Premier Crypto Detective. The Clues Led Straight to Her Own Family

    1 h 25 min

    To listen to episodes a day early, follow The Big Story here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠http://swap.fm/l/wi-bigstorypod-feeddrop To escape the chaos of her Russian childhood, Lili Infante became an American law enforcement prodigy …

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    To escape the chaos of her Russian childhood, Lili Infante became an American law enforcement prodigy. She pioneered the DEA’s investigations of the dark web—never suspecting who she’d find hiding there.

    Written by Joshuah Bearman and Owen Long. Originally published on October 21st, 2026.

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  8. From The Big Story: Inside the Bitcoin Bust That Took Down the Web's Biggest Child Abuse Site

    1 h 48 min

    Listen to more of The Big Story here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠http://swap.fm/l/wi-bigstorypod-feeddrop They thought their payments were untraceable. They couldn’t have been more wrong. The untold story of the case that shredded …

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    They thought their payments were untraceable. They couldn’t have been more wrong. The untold story of the case that shredded the myth of Bitcoin’s anonymity.

    Written by Andy Greenberg. Originally published on April 7th, 2022.

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  9. From The Big Story: Evan Ratliff Tried to Vanish: Here's What Happened

    1 h 10 min

    Listen to more of The Big Story here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠http://swap.fm/l/wi-bigstorypod-feeddrop He shed his identity with the goal of disappearing for one month. Then the manhunt began. Written by Evan Ratliff. Originally …

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    He shed his identity with the goal of disappearing for one month. Then the manhunt began.

    Written by Evan Ratliff. Originally published on November 20th, 2009.

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  10. From The Big Story: Nathan Fielder Tells Us Everything

    50 min

    Including what Elizabeth Holmes said to him last week. A WIRED exclusive interview with the comic auteur, as his first feature film hits theaters. The conversation between Katie Drummond and Nathan Fielder is …

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    Including what Elizabeth Holmes said to him last week. A WIRED exclusive interview with the comic auteur, as his first feature film hits theaters.

    The conversation between Katie Drummond and Nathan Fielder is performed by voice actors. These are not their actual voices.

    Written by Katie Drummond. Originally published on October 19th, 2026.

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  11. From The Big Story: A College Girl Was Exploited on Camera. A Network of Anonymous Men Got to Work

    48 min

    Listen to more of The Big Story here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠http://swap.fm/l/wi-bigstorypod-feeddrop Maddie Kowalski is one of countless young women who’ve had their lives destroyed by the burnerverse, a loosely connected online …

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    Maddie Kowalski is one of countless young women who’ve had their lives destroyed by the burnerverse, a loosely connected online community of sports fans. Now she’s fighting back.

    Written by EJ Dickson. Originally published on September 14th, 2026.

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  12. From The Big Story: The Accidental Zillionaire

    1 h 1 min

    Listen to more of The Big Story here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠http://swap.fm/l/wi-bigstorypod-feeddrop Microsoft spawned two billionaires. Paul Allen is the other one. Written by Paulina Borsook. Originally published on August …

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    Microsoft spawned two billionaires. Paul Allen is the other one.

    Written by Paulina Borsook. Originally published on August 1st, 1994.

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  13. From The Big Story: In Search of the Heart of the Online-Cat Industrial Complex

    46 min

    Listen to more of The Big Story here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠http://swap.fm/l/wi-bigstorypod-feeddrop A cat wearing a short tie plays music on a cat-shaped keyboard (“Pancake Meowsic Video,” 185,459 views). A woman performs sun …

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    A cat wearing a short tie plays music on a cat-shaped keyboard (“Pancake Meowsic Video,” 185,459 views). A woman performs sun salutations with a cat on her back (“Cat Loves Yoga,” 1,539 views). A man slaps two cats on an ironing board to the beat of “Atmosphere” (“Cat Slap Joy Division,” 357,605 views).

    Written by Gideon Lewis-Kraus. Originally published on August 31st, 2012.

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  14. From The Big Story: The Internet Runs on Cats and Porn. It’s About to Get Cattier and Pornier

    33 min

    Listen to more of The Big Story here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠http://swap.fm/l/wi-bigstorypod-feeddrop Soon, hundreds of new top-level domains, including .meow and .fart, could be added to the internet. WIRED goes inside the …

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    Soon, hundreds of new top-level domains, including .meow and .fart, could be added to the internet. WIRED goes inside the backroom shenanigans of ICANN, the organization at the helm.

    Written by Pete Millspaugh. Originally published on October 6th, 2026.

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  15. From The Big Story: Billions Registered

    29 min

    Listen to more of The Big Story here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠http://swap.fm/l/wi-bigstorypod-feeddrop Right now, there are no rules to keep you from owning a bitchin’ corporate name as your own internet address. Written by Joshua …

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    Right now, there are no rules to keep you from owning a bitchin’ corporate name as your own internet address.

    Written by Joshua Quittner. Originally published on October 1st, 1994.

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  16. From The Big Story: Why the Future Doesn't Need Us

    1 h 18 min

    Listen to more of The Big Story here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠http://swap.fm/l/wi-bigstorypod-feeddrop Our most powerful 21st-century technologies—robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotech—are threatening to make humans an …

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    Our most powerful 21st-century technologies—robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotech—are threatening to make humans an endangered species.


    Written by Bill Joy. Originally published on April 1st, 2000.


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  17. From The Big Story: Choke Points

    37 min

    Listen to more of The Big Story here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠http://swap.fm/l/wi-bigstorypod-feeddrop Lost time. Lost jobs. Lost friends. Lost family. Lost Lives. How Israeli checkpoints suffocate Palestinian life in the occupied …

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    Lost time. Lost jobs. Lost friends. Lost family.

    Lost Lives.

    How Israeli checkpoints suffocate Palestinian life in the occupied West Bank.


    Written by Lama Rabah, Sabrina Slipchenko, Charles Boutaud, Firas Tawil and Elena DeBre. Originally published on September 30th 2026.


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  18. From The Big Story: How a Research Blog Took on Big Surveillance in China—and Won

    39 min

    Listen to more of The Big Story here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠http://swap.fm/l/wi-bigstorypod-feeddrop Digging through manuals for security cameras, a group of gearheads found sinister details and ignited a new battle in the …

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    Digging through manuals for security cameras, a group of gearheads found sinister details and ignited a new battle in the US-China tech war.


    Written by Amos Zeeberg. Originally published on April 4th, 2023.


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  19. From The Big Story: Greetings From Burning Man!

    31 min

    Listen to more of The Big Story here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠http://swap.fm/l/wi-bigstorypod-feeddrop Dispatches from the New American Holiday: Writer Bruce Sterling takes the kids to the Temporary Autonomous Zone, where survival …

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    Dispatches from the New American Holiday: Writer Bruce Sterling takes the kids to the Temporary Autonomous Zone, where survival is a personal choice.


    Written by Bruce Sterling. Originally published in WIRED on November 1st, 1996.

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  20. From The Big Story: She's 28, Loves God and Her Family, and Might Be the Reason You Can't Have Kids

    39 min

    No IVF. No surrogacy. No polygenic tests. Emma Waters is leading a national fight against fertility tech—with her hot husband’s permission, of course.For more of the most ambitious, future-defining stories from …

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    No IVF. No surrogacy. No polygenic tests. Emma Waters is leading a national fight against fertility tech—with her hot husband’s permission, of course.
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  21. From The Big Story: Sayaka Murata Inhabits a Planet of Her Own

    27 min

    Listen to more of The Big Story here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠http://swap.fm/l/wi-bigstorypod-feeddrop The novelist makes the Earthly rituals of sex, marriage, childbirth—and all of human life—appear delightfully outlandish. For …

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    The novelist makes the Earthly rituals of sex, marriage, childbirth—and all of human life—appear delightfully outlandish.

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  22. Open Source AI Has Founders—and the FTC—Buzzing

    11 min

    DC went to YC to talk OS. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

  23. Bitcoin Bros Go Wild for Donald Trump

    15 min

    At the Bitcoin 2024 conference in Nashville, Trump told crypto enthusiasts exactly what they want to hear. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

  24. Polluted Lakes Are Being Cleansed Using Floating Wetlands Made of Trash

    14 min

    Platforms combining plants and recycled garbage could offer a cut-price solution for reviving polluted bodies of water. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

  25. At The Olympics, AI Is Watching You

    10 min

    A controversial new surveillance system in Paris foreshadows a future where there are too many CCTV cameras for humans to physically watch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

  26. Here's What Happens When You Give People Free Money (They Get Poorer)

    8 min

    OpenResearch released the first results of the most comprehensive study on giving unrestricted cash grants to impoverished Americans. Researchers say it will flame both sides of the debate over welfare. Learn …

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    OpenResearch released the first results of the most comprehensive study on giving unrestricted cash grants to impoverished Americans. Researchers say it will flame both sides of the debate over welfare.

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  27. RealPage Says Rental Pricing Tech Is Misunderstood, but Landlords Aren’t So Sure

    14 min

    The software company has pushed back hard against claims that its algorithms helped make rent in the US too damn high. Property owners and managers aren't entirely convinced. Learn more about your ad choices …

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    The software company has pushed back hard against claims that its algorithms helped make rent in the US too damn high. Property owners and managers aren't entirely convinced.

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  28. Waymo Is Suing People Who Allegedly Smashed and Slashed Its Robotaxis

    9 min

    The Alphabet-owned driverless car service is getting aggressive against alleged vandals after a series of violent incidents in San Francisco. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

  29. J.D. Vance Left His Venmo Public. Here’s What It Shows

    12 min

    The Republican VP nominee's Venmo network reveals connections ranging from the architects of Project 2025 to enemies of Donald Trump—and the populist's close ties to the very elites he rails against. Learn more …

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    The Republican VP nominee's Venmo network reveals connections ranging from the architects of Project 2025 to enemies of Donald Trump—and the populist's close ties to the very elites he rails against.

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  30. Spotify, Stop Trying to Become a Social Media App

    9 min

    The music streaming service has added a comment function under podcasts. Who is it for, anyway? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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