Electric bike, stupid love of my life
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Other dads once gave me a bigger life. Now I could do the same for Arturo.
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I hired five people to sit behind me and make me productive for a month
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I’ve reported on gun violence in the US for more than a year and I just can’t get used to it
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How I hacked CASIO F-91W digital watch to support NFC payments
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Making games
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Hidden pain, controlled bodies: Does ballet have to be like this? A recent explosion of revelations from ballet dancers confronts an art form afraid to look itself in the mirror
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The fake poor bride: Confessions of a luxury-wedding planner
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My son was a Columbine shooter. This is my story
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The last egg
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I’m an ER doctor. Here’s how I’m already using ChatGPT to help treat patients.
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I spent three weeks trying to port Super Auto Pets to the Game Boy Advance
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Confessions of a slaughterhouse worker
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Elliot Page: Embracing my trans identity saved me
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I’m a Luddite. You should be one too
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I just bought the only physical encyclopedia still in print, and I regret nothing
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I tracked down my anonymous landlord... Here's what happened
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Bad waitress
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Let kids be kids
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From playwright to pandemic Queen: How D’Arcy Drollinger became the first drag laureate
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Three generations of trans Americans reflect on what has (and hasn't) changed
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How two friends sparked LA’s sushi obsession — and changed the way America eats
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Welcome to America’s most elite girls boarding school. Let the hazing begin.
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George Takei: Love and justice beyond the stars
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How Freddie Wong built RocketJump to nine million subscribers…and then left Youtube
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Things I noticed while visiting the ICU
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How two people spent twenty years creating gaming’s most complex simulation system
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'Landlords are a scum class': Everything I've learnt about London renting
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I was a sensitivity reader – until I realised why I was hired
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The people who live inside airplanes
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When Leo Babler was born with a deadly genetic disorder his parents built an adventure van, and made sure their son experienced the most beautiful wild places in the country during the time they had
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Eight times when strangers misread my gender, ranked
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I lost my finger.. so I made a new one
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The Violin Doctor. He’s trusted to repair some of the world’s most fabled — and expensive — instruments. How does John Becker manage to unlock the sound of a Stradivarius?
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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.
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The first family of human cannonballing
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I lost my boyfriend to cancer conspiracy theories
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I thought sex parties would free my sexuality. The reality was more dystopian than utopian.
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Thousands of women in Greenland, including some as young as twelve, had a contraceptive device implanted in their womb, often without consent
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Nine hard-earned lessons from 365 days of sobriety
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Bed Habits - One insomniac’s descent into the world of sleep research to understand what screens before bed are doing to our brains
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I fought the PayPal and I won
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That time when my skin changed color: A Spaniard in the USA
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Constant cravings - My feeding tube means I can no longer enjoy the feeling of being sated after a meal. But there are other ways to nourish myself beyond my body.
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Catching up with new Norwegians, twenty-five years on – in 1996, a group of young people living in Norway were interviewed about what it meant to be Norwegian
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Last year I secretly ghost-wrote and published my best friend's autobiography as a joke. This year I recorded the audiobook version using a deepfake of his voice, and released it for charity.
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The art of bidding, or how I survived Federal prison
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Darius McCollum - How and why he stole 100s trains and busses
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Lord of the pings: How I turned off my phone notifications, and got my life back
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What’s the strangest thing you ever found in a book?
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