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Serial is a new podcast from the creators of This American Life, hosted by Sarah Koenig. Serial will follow one story – a true story – over the course of a whole season.

Season 1 of Serial centers around a girl named
Hae Min Lee, a senior at Woodlawn High School in Baltimore County, Maryland – who disappeared January 13, 1999. A month later, her body turned up in a city park. She’d been strangled. Her 17-year-old ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed, was arrested for the crime, and within a year, he was convicted and sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison.

You can listen to the podcast in full here.

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Serial is a new podcast from the creators of This American Life, hosted by Sarah Koenig. Serial will follow one story – a true story – over the course of a whole season.

Season 1 of Serial centers around a girl named
Hae Min Lee, a senior at Woodlawn High School in Baltimore County, Maryland – who disappeared January 13, 1999. A month later, her body turned up in a city park. She’d been strangled. Her 17-year-old ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed, was arrested for the crime, and within a year, he was convicted and sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison.

You can listen to the podcast in full here.

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Serial is a new podcast from the creators of This American Life, hosted by Sarah Koenig. Serial will follow one story – a true story – over the course of a whole season.

Season 1 of Serial centers around a girl named
Hae Min Lee, a senior at Woodlawn High School in Baltimore County, Maryland – who disappeared January 13, 1999. A month later, her body turned up in a city park. She’d been strangled. Her 17-year-old ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed, was arrested for the crime, and within a year, he was convicted and sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison.

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Serial is a new podcast from the creators of This American Life, hosted by Sarah Koenig. Serial will follow one story – a true story – over the course of a whole season.

Season 1 of Serial centers around a girl named
Hae Min Lee, a senior at Woodlawn High School in Baltimore County, Maryland – who disappeared January 13, 1999. A month later, her body turned up in a city park. She’d been strangled. Her 17-year-old ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed, was arrested for the crime, and within a year, he was convicted and sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison.

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Serial is a new podcast from the creators of This American Life, hosted by Sarah Koenig. Serial will follow one story – a true story – over the course of a whole season.

Season 1 of Serial centers around a girl named
Hae Min Lee, a senior at Woodlawn High School in Baltimore County, Maryland – who disappeared January 13, 1999. A month later, her body turned up in a city park. She’d been strangled. Her 17-year-old ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed, was arrested for the crime, and within a year, he was convicted and sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison.

The case against him was largely based on the story of one witness, Adnan’s friend Jay, who testified that he helped Adnan bury Hae’s body. But Adnan has always maintained he had nothing to do with Hae’s death. Some people believe he’s telling the truth. Many others don’t.

Sarah Koenig, who hosts Serial, first learned about this case more than a year ago. In the months since, she’s been sorting through box after box (after box) of legal documents and investigators' notes, listening to trial testimony and police interrogations, and talking to everyone she can find who remembers what happened between Adnan Syed and Hae Min Lee fifteen years ago. What she realized is that the trial covered up a far more complicated story, which neither the jury nor the public got to hear. The high school scene, the shifting statements to police, the prejudices, the sketchy alibis, the scant forensic evidence – all of it leads back to the most basic questions: How can you know a person’s character? How can you tell what they’re capable of? In Season One of Serial, she looks for answers.

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Serial is a new podcast from the creators of This American Life, hosted by Sarah Koenig. Serial will follow one story – a true story – over the course of a whole season.

Season 1 of Serial centers around a girl named
Hae Min Lee, a senior at Woodlawn High School in Baltimore County, Maryland – who disappeared January 13, 1999. A month later, her body turned up in a city park. She’d been strangled. Her 17-year-old ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed, was arrested for the crime, and within a year, he was convicted and sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison.

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The Giant Robots Smashing into Other Giant Robots podcast is a weekly technical podcast discussing development, design, and the business of software development.

Hosted by Ben Orenstein, who is joined each week by developers and designers from thoughtbot and beyond.

On this episode, he talks with Genius’s own Tom Lehman, aka @LEMON. Listen to the podcast in full here.

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The idea of focusing on “non-sexy” problems was also touched on in this conversation between Jim Goetz and Jan Koum (of Whatsapp)!

I think it’s interesting people have to chime in to remind people that the bulk of startup work is, in fact, not sexy – as if the sparkly, ~get rich fast~ veneer to startup culture has overshadowed the fact that it takes a lot of real, hard, overtime work!

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The idea of a “Silicon Valley” startup/“anti-Silicon Valley” startup is really interesting to me. The culture of Silicon Valley and the startups that emerge from it is a unique one and, in many cases, one to be critiqued – take the TV show “Silicon Valley”, which provides a cuttingly accurate satire, for instance!

But what really comprises this label, and what makes a company break free from it? In Whatsapp’s case, there are three aspects to it: the anti-marketing stance, the anti-growth stance, and the decision to make people pay for the app. The wording that struck me here the most though, was “authentic” – implying that there is a falseness to Silicon Valley/startup culture. Does fitting into this mold and this structure prove detrimental to a fledgling company? Are companies affected by unnatural attempts to fit into this mold?

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The man here, identified in the following paragraph, is Sarah and Todd Palin’s son, Track. This account clearly implies that the Palins attempted to hide Track from the police – only allowing the officer access to him once the officer approached the limo and directly asked Track to step out.

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