It's almost certainly my adblocker playing poorly with their "subscribe to read" stuff, but I had to lol at the failure mode. When I load the page, I get the splash image/headline, and below it:

> Subscribe to listen [9 minutes]

> Aerodynamic drag is a major “barrier” in high-speed airplanes, automobiles, and bullet trains. This is because a design with less aerodynamic drag allows the aircraft to move at higher speeds with less energy.

And then just comments and links to other articles. No indication at all that there's more to the article beyond (apparently) an audio recording.

This might explain some of the "didn't read the article" comments? Not that it doesn't happen anyway tho.