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Alexis Madrigal - Alexis Madrigal is a senior editor at The Atlantic. He's the author of Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology.
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The New York Observer calls him, "for all intents and purposes, the perfect modern reporter." Madrigal co-founded Longshot magazine, a high-speed media experiment that garnered attention from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and the BBC. While at Wired.com, he built Wired Science into one of the most popular blogs in the world. The site was nominated for best magazine blog by the MPA and best science Web site in the 2009 Webby Awards. He also co-founded Haiti ReWired, a groundbreaking community dedicated to the discussion of technology, infrastructure, and the future of Haiti.

He's spoken at Stanford, CalTech, Berkeley, SXSW, E3, and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and his writing was anthologized in Best Technology Writing 2010 (Yale University Press).

Madrigal is a visiting scholar at the University of California at Berkeley's Office for the History of Science and Technology. Born in Mexico City, he grew up in the exurbs north of Portland, Oregon, and now lives in Oakland.
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Video of the Day: Metrodome Roof Collapses

By Alexis Madrigal

Dec 12 2010, 1:46 PM ET Comment

This is one of the most jaw-dropping videos you're going to see this year. It shows the collapse of the Metrodome roof. The Minneapolis sports stadium is (quite appropriately) also known by its full name, The Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome.

This actually marks the fifth time that the roof has collapsed or deflated. It's made of teflon-coated fiberglass fabric. It's held up by air pressure and was considered something of a marvel when it was built in 1982.



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