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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: What Helmet Cam Combat Footage Looks Like

By Alexis Madrigal

May 2 2011, 12:41 PM ET Comment

President Obama watched a live-feed of the raid on Osama Bin Laden's residence from the White House, a source told Business Insider. The elite Navy Seals team that did the job was probably wired up with helmet cameras that recorded the action as it happened. In fact, helmet cam videos are their own genre on YouTube. Here's one from Afghanistan that shows the intimacy of what Obama saw, if not the event itself:



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