CURRENT ISSUE
November 2014
Features
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Giant Steps
His robotic lower limbs have already revolutionized life for amputees (including himself). Now he’s envisioning new capabilities for everyone else
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The Great Escape
Prison reform activist max kenner champions the transformative power of college degree programs for inmates nationwide
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High Wire
Her sky-high sculptures, created from miles of twine and manipulated by cutting-edge technology, transform urban space
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Flood of Time
The filmmaker’s brilliant new documentary plunges us into one of the greatest natural disasters in American history
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Total Recall
For the first time, two pioneering neuroscientists have implanted a memory of an event that never happened
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Cracking the Code
By teaching young girls of color how to program computers, one engineer hopes to change the face of technology
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The Long Way Home
In the land of her ancestors, she discovered new terrain—and came away with a different kind of concept album
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Cosmic Voyage
How a physicist’s dogged pursuit of a basic question about the cosmos led him to the ends of the earth
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The Visionary
How a self-taught inventor’s homemade headset may transform everything from gaming to medical treatment to engineering—and beyond
Departments
The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge
The life of the one-time world’s longest suspension bridge, at 50 years old