Lord of the Rings–quoting performance wins this year’s ‘Dance Your PhD’ contest ~science Article 783 words 5 votes
One-hour operation could cure prostate cancer by destroying tumours with electric currents ~health medicine Article 600 words, published Jan 2 2022 11 votes
KPMG gave SVB, Signature Bank clean bill of health weeks before collapse. Accounting firm faces scrutiny for audits of failed banks. ~finance banking Article 56 words, published Mar 13 2023 6 votes
The incredible tantrum venture capitalists threw over Silicon Valley Bank ~finance banking Article 2791 words 5 votes
Major League Baseball is making a handful of radical rule changes designed to make games faster and more action-packed ~sports.baseball Link 11 votes
Why Sweden is (still) betting on the metaverse – we chatted to the experts on why Swedes are so keen on virtual worlds ~tech Article 1139 words, published Feb 9 2023 3 votes
Forget designer babies. Here’s how CRISPR is really changing lives. ~health medicine Article 1264 words 6 votes
Can a booming start-up scene help Norway turn its back on oil's poisoned pill? The oil-rich nation's green surge is not as big as it should be ~enviro climate change energy.renewable Article 1225 words 4 votes
Covid backlash hobbles US public health and future pandemic response ~health Article 2189 words 8 votes
How Californians are weaponizing environmental law ~enviro Article 1728 words, published Mar 12 2021 9 votes
The internet’s richest fitness resource is a site from 1999. ExRx.net is little changed since the days of GeoCities yet beneath its bare-bones interface is a deep physiological compendium. ~tech Article 1078 words, published Mar 3 2023 16 votes
Sacramento recycle center shutters, blames California agency for ‘irate’ customers ~enviro recycling Article 1118 words 8 votes
Black holes are accelerating the expansion of the Universe, say cosmologists ~space astronomy Article 957 words 9 votes
‘Dilbert’ author Scott Adams tells White people to get away from Black people, gets dropped from US newspaper ~comics Article 806 words 19 votes
Alone and exploited, migrant children work brutal jobs across the US ~life work Article 3774 words 11 votes
Tennessee becomes the first state to pass a ban on drag shows. The bill is so vaguely worded it could also target trans people and Pride celebrations generally. ~lgbt transgender Link 12 votes
Welcome to the oldest part of the metaverse - Ultima Online, which just turned 25, offers a lesson in the challenges of building virtual worlds ~games Article 2530 words 12 votes
How should we think about our different styles of thinking? ~humanities Article 4644 words, published Jan 9 2023 4 votes
Meta launching paid subscription service for Facebook, Instagram ~tech social media facebook Article 73 words 11 votes
The greatest tax system in the world – why can't America be as great as the Faroe Islands? ~finance business Article 1242 words, published Jan 2 2023 14 votes
Norway has seized a record $5.8 million worth of cryptocurrency that was stolen by North Korean hackers last year ~finance cryptocurrency Article 352 words 5 votes
Long COVID now looks like a neurological disease, helping doctors to focus treatments ~health medicine.interdisciplinary Article 4228 words 4 votes
War and subsidies have turbocharged the green transition ~enviro climate change Article 1806 words 4 votes
Charles Silverstein, who helped declassify homosexuality as mental illness, dies at 87 ~lgbt history activism Article 1112 words 8 votes
Beijing needs to junk its economic playbook ~finance economics Article 2514 words, published Feb 2 2023 4 votes
What’s the correct color of bees? In Austria, it’s a toxic topic. ~enviro Article 1476 words 15 votes
A murder roils the cycling world: In gravel racing—the sport’s hottest category—the killing has exposed a lot of dirt ~sports Article 8225 words, published Nov 7 2022 6 votes
The Florida High School Athletics Association said student athletes should be required to give detailed information about their periods to school administrators when they register to play ~sports Article 490 words, published Jan 26 2023 6 votes
US school librarians vilified as the 'arm of Satan' in book-banning wars ~books libraries.school Article 1971 words 8 votes
New Yorkers never came ‘flooding back.’ Why did rents go up so much? ~finance Article 4096 words 18 votes
IKEA is using more wood from Sweden and the Baltics to make up for not sourcing it from Russia and Belarus, which the company has shunned due to Moscow's war in Ukraine ~finance business Article 504 words 4 votes
Nobody has my condition but me - Medical researchers find my genetic mutation endlessly fascinating. But being unique isn’t a plus when you’re a patient. ~health medicine healthcare Article 5280 words, published Jan 23 2023 6 votes
Outrage around the US as Memphis Police release footage of fatal assault on Tyre Nichols ~news usa.tn.memphis crime Article 666 words 9 votes
Pope Francis calls for the decriminalization of homosexuality worldwide ~lgbt Article 1051 words 13 votes