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Scientists' obsession with one particular man - and with the tiny scraps of evidence left in the wake of his death - gives us a surprisingly intimate peek into the life of someone who should've been lost to the ages.

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• John's new Museum of Mediocre Reading Devices.
• The confusing Photo Stream limits, and all of these links in the show notes.
• Stephen Elop's If-I-Were-CEO Plan.
• A story about enterprise software.
• The four big assumptions about using enterprise software, why it's usually so terrible, and why big companies buy it.

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I posted a video earlier today of a Super Cub airplane landing on the side of a mountain. Super Cubs are ideal for that undertaking because of their low stall speed and short take-off and landing distances. But I had no idea you could land and take off in one in the space of...

• Thanks to Jim Pierce for extending John's dog. (Also mentioned: AntiCrop, Glide)
• Everpix's failure and impending shutdown:
  • The Verge's profile of the failure
  • Shutdown FAQ
  • Staff tweet about compression and average usage
  • Staff tweet about "3x userbase" needed
  • Somewhat similar services: Loom, Picturelife, Adobe Revel
• Everpix's critical strategic error, and how tech business and funding strategies should resemble Puerto Rico game strategies).
• Revisiting the challenges of online photo storage and why Apple isn't offering something like Everpix with iCloud.
• Answers to the last listener questions about John's Mavericks review.

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Legions of athletes, sports gurus, and scientists have tried to figure out why Kenyans dominate long-distance running. In this short, we stumble across a surprising, and sort of terrifying, explanation.

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Some light Mac Pro waffling and the red one. iOS 7.0.3's new crossfade animations in "Reduce Motion" mode. Little tidbits and windows into the life of John Siracusa buried in his OS X Mavericks review. Noodling John with random questions. Dragon Drop and Cocoapods don't su...

• The John Siracusa Mavericks review is up!
• Apple's event, the presenters' pacing and enthusiasm, Casey's bag of hearts, and yet another showing of the dots video.
• The Retina MacBook Pro update.
• The Mac Pro base price, CPU options, and speculation on SSD pricing.
• The iPad Air, Retina iPad Mini, iPad 2 (LOL), and iPod Classic.
• Apple's prod of free software.
• John's high-level summary of Mavericks and recommendation on upgrading.
• Listener homework: Read the review before next week's episode.

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When we first released Famous Tumors, Rebecca Skloot's book about the life and legacy of Henrietta Lacks (and her famous cells) had just hit the shelves. Since then, some interesting things have happened to both Henrietta's cells and her family. So, 4 years later, we have a newly updated show!

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• Ebook-publishing woes and trying to coordinate a specific release date.
• Apple hiring the CEO of Burberry to head their retail division, and the Louis Vuitton logo.
• The challenges of retail leadership.
• Touch ID impressions after a weekend of heavy use, and whether you should keep your phone secure for other people's benefit.
• How Touch ID could be used in Macs, and whether ARM MacBooks would be worth the transition costs.
• Speculation on next week's product announcements.
• Where a potential 12" Retina MacBook Pro could fit in the lineup.

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For many of us, quicksand was once a real fear -- it held a vise-grip on our imaginations, from childish sandbox games to grown-up anxieties about venturing into unknown lands. But these days, quicksand can't even scare an 8-year-old. In this short, we try to find out why. 

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• Siri expectations and unreliability in popular culture.
• Can Apple ever dramatically improve their web services, and how much pressure do they feel to do so?
• The sorry state of online payment processing before Stripe, and improving the current sorry state of money transfers (especially in the U.S.) with services such as Dwolla and Square Cash.
• The Mavericks GM.
• Drawbacks of a Readability-like model for paying podcast producers in Overcast, and Instacast's 2012 rejection for Flattr integration.
• Different priorities for podcast playback and management.

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When we expected the Mavericks GM (recorded two hours before this). Apparent new E5-1680 Mac Pro in Geekbench and what CPU tradeoffs to expect in the new Mac Pro. Speculating on the new Mac Pro's fan noise, rotating cable management, and intended desk location. FU on John'...

• Casey's exclusive new iPhone 5S.
• Low stock levels of the gold 5S and Apple's potential motivations.
• How good the iPhone 5 (and therefore the 5C) still is today.
• John's review of iOS 7.
• Locking your kitchen.
• Marco's upcoming podcast app, Overcast, as announced at XOXO 2013, and why he preannounced it.
• The parallels between Portland and the Hofbräuhaus.
• John's logarithmic-scrubber idea. (and Marco's logarithmic calendar)
• Dr. Drang on parallax.
• Post-show Neutral: the F80 M3/M4 specs.

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You may not give a second thought (or backward glance) to what the toilet whisks away after you do your business. But we got wondering -- where would we wind up if we thought of flushing as the start, and not the end, of a journey? In this short, we head out to trace the trail of sludge...from Manhattan, to wherever poop leads us.

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• Casey goes to an Apple Store.
• FU on SnappyCam, Synology and ZFS, and the likelihood of a new Mac filesystem.
• The 16/32/64 GB iPhone capacities may be overstaying their welcome.
• Each host's planned iPhone upgrades.
• How to get an iPhone on launch day.
• Long Island Lexus trim.
• Who's fabbing the A7? Intel? Probably not.
• iOS 7 adoption stats so far from Mixpanel and _DavidSmith.

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• iPhone 5c and iPhone 5s.
• The possible Sherlocking of SnappyCam and the 5s' two-tone flash in practice.
• AnandTech's Touch ID hands-on video.
• Economics of iPhone cases.
• 64-bit in practice.
• Speculation on what the M7 does and its potential.
• White iOS devices.
• Apple secrecy.
• After-show: "non" vs. "hon" and the Micro-USB 3.0 connector.

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We've all felt it, that irresistible urge to point the finger. But new technologies are complicating age-old moral conundrums about accountability. This hour, we ask what blame does for us -- why do we need it, when isn't it enough, and what happens when we try to push past it with forgiveness and mercy?

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• John's Mavericks review progress.
• iPhone event predictions.
• Design and security tradeoffs of a theoretical iPhone fingerprint lock.
• iPhone 5S colors.
• Will the 5C be the mainstream, best-selling model?
• Cell towers near rich people.
• The Apple TV shipment rumor.
• Tim Cook's "new product categories" statement earlier this year: What might that be that could plausibly come this fall "and into 2014"?
• Our Synology experiences and disk-layout strategies so far.
• The OmniKeyMaster Mac App Store saga.
• Microsoft and Nokia: Stratechery 1, Stratechery 2, Asymco: Who's buying whom?

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• Follow-up: Time Capsule vs. Siracusa. Casey was right!
• The state of Microsoft: How much was Ballmer's fault?
• Ben Thompson on Steve Ballmer.
• Microsoft's enterprise business.
• Should Microsoft pull an IBM and/or spin off its consumer business?
• What could Microsoft do to regain momentum and marketshare in phones and tablets?
• John on the Nintendo 2DS announcement. (Side-by-side with 3DS, 3DS XL, the Kid Icarus: Uprising stand).
• After-show: Jeff Atwood's CODE Keyboard, Truly-Ergonomic, and Marco's initial thoughts on the Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic Desktop keyboard vs. the Kinesis Freestyle 2 for Mac and the Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000.

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In this short, Jad puts on his music hat and shares his love of Dawn of Midi, a band that he recently started using on the show.

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