Deadlifting in Your Nineties, in “Strong Grandma”

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Watch “Strong Grandma.” The New Yorker Documentary View the latest or submit your own film. At ninety-five years old, Catherine Kuehn was a world-record-holding powerlifter. “It’s been very easy for me,”…

The Flawed Heart of “Adolescence”

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Netflix is currently ranking the British miniseries “Adolescence” as its most-watched television show among Americans. The streaming service shrouds the methods by which it reaches these metrics in a lot of…

Could We Store Our Data in DNA?

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story A zettabyte is a trillion gigabytes. That’s a lot—but, according to one estimate, humanity will produce a hundred and eighty zettabytes of digital data this year. It all adds up: PowerPoints…

The Game Designer Playing Through His Own Psyche

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story A little more than a decade ago, the video-game designer Davey Wreden experienced a crippling success. In October, 2013, he and a collaborator, William Pugh, released the Stanley Parable HD, a…