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Maria Streshinsky

Maria Streshinsky is the executive editor at WIRED. Before joining WIRED she was the editor in chief of Pacific Standard, a magazine she launched in 2012. Streshinsky also served for many years as the managing editor of The Atlantic, where she won the Atlantic Media Company award for editing excellence.

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Three days before Thanksgiving, Brian Whisman slowly lifted the gates that were holding back the Muskingum River, and a rush of water began turning two 40-inch turbines deep below the Stockport Mill Country Inn, in southeastern Ohio. That day the 100-year old former gristmill became the only…