The quiet death of Ello’s big dreams
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Five of the best Terry Pratchett books and suggestions for how to read Pratchett's work
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Which word begins with "y" and looks like an axe in this picture?
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Before I reach my enemy, bring me some heads
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‘Succession’ wins Outstanding Drama Series, 'The Bear' wins Outstanding Comedy Series, 'Beef' wins Outstanding Limited Series at the Emmy's
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A theory of grift
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He spent his life building a $1 million stereo. The real cost was unfathomable.
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To fight absenteeism, US schools turn to private companies
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Utility by Jack Nicholls - fun sci fi short in which a super powerful future human tries very hard to impress and reassure a 21st century human
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Will US companies hire fewer engineers due to Section 174?
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Predictions from 2018 reviewed
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Patrick McKenzie on navigating complex systems
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The perfect webpage: How the internet reshaped itself around Google’s search algorithms
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Silent Spring (Rachel Carson, 1962)
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My parents’ dementia felt like the end of joy. But when they got sick, I turned to a new generation of roboticists—and their glowing, talking, blobby creations.
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How ‘cherry-picking’ policies let one insurer win big in Florida’s insurance crisis
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Fixing Macs door-to-door
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Norway's Melodi Grand Prix 2024: The eighteen artists and songs
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Give us something to look at: Why ornament matters in architecture
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Notes on the Ivory Coast
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Each year from 2014 to 2114, a manuscript is sealed in The Silent Room of Norway's Future Library – the goal: greater hope for humankind
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Lisica - Weekly episodes of a scientist soap opera
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The forecasting fallacy
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How Tesla, BMW, Ford, GM and Mercedes driver assist systems compare
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India targets Apple over its phone hacking notifications
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A quiet merger trial between antitrust enforcers and a pharma data giant called IQVIA reveals how bro-style executives control US medical data
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AI and trust
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Overtime — Charles Stross [A Christmas Story]
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Donkey Kong: A record of struggle
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Fifty-five books Scientific American recommends in 2023
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Conan O’Brien’s wild first year: An oral history - In 1993, NBC made a historic decision—and gave Late Night to a nobody. O’Brien, Letterman, Lorne Michaels, Lisa Kudrow, and more tell all.
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Charity for profit: Brandfluence/Softgiving, the marketing agency behind some of Twitch's most successful fundraising streams quietly collected 42% of donations
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The personal, political art of board-game design
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Mark Zuckerberg is building a top-secret compound in Hawai'i
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Largest dataset powering AI images removed after discovery of Child Sexual Abuse Materials
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Sixty-six good news stories you didn't hear about in 2023
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The divorce colony
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Why books donʼt work
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When the New York Times lost its way
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Why is the Colorado River running dry?
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My doomed career as a North Korean novelist
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Taylor Swift named as Time's Person of the Year - 2023
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The long shadow of checks
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The red US state brain drain isn’t coming. It’s happening right now.
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A new internet standard called L4S could significantly lower the amount of time we spend waiting for things to load
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A matter of millimeters: the story of Qantas flight 32
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New lives in the city: How Taleban have experienced life in Kabul
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How millennials learned to dread motherhood
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When the great apes at Furuvik Zoo in Sweden broke free from their enclosure last winter, the keepers faced a terrible choice
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Muse Group acquires Hal Leonard
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