A professor claimed to be Native American. Did she know she wasn’t? ~life Article 6796 words, published Feb 26 2024 25 votes
MRI research shows live music makes us more emotional than recordings ~music Article 407 words 21 votes
Bitcoin tops $57,000 price level for first time since late 2021 ~finance cryptocurrency Article 77 words 32 votes
The DVD biz has circled the drain for years. In 2024, it goes down the tubes. ~movies Article 1485 words, published Feb 20 2024 22 votes
The endangered languages of New York ~humanities.languages Article 1638 words, published Feb 22 2024 16 votes
Shell to permanently close all of its hydrogen refuelling stations for cars in California ~transport Article 423 words, published Feb 8 2024 37 votes
Elon Musk’s Vegas tunnel project has been racking up safety violations ~transport Article 77 words 23 votes
How the Pentagon learned to use targeted ads to find its targets—and Vladimir Putin ~tech Article 5350 words 29 votes
Rooftop solar drives out coal, wind and grid-scale solar in Australia ~enviro energy.renewable Article 895 words, published Jan 7 2024 21 votes
Wasabi could help preserve ancient Egyptian papyrus artefacts ~science archaeology biology Article 377 words 9 votes
The US Army is slashing thousands of jobs to focus on Russia and China ~news usa russia china politics.usa Article 554 words 8 votes
Philadelphia SEPTA won a $317 million federal grant to help replace aging Market-Frankford Line cars ~transport Article 459 words, published Feb 16 2024 16 votes
A US drugmaker’s feud with the DEA is exacerbating the ADHD meds crisis ~health.mental Article 2737 words 36 votes
$1 billion donation will provide free tuition at a Bronx medical school ~life education.higher Article 1516 words 21 votes
Three long-term effects of a "plastic wrap parenting" style ~life parenting.plastic wrap Article 810 words 21 votes
US returns to the Moon with commercial moon landing (gifted link) ~space spaceflight.commercial Article 372 words 36 votes
US journalist Tim Burke indicted for accessing unaired footage of Tucker Carlson and others at Fox News ~news usa journalism crime Article 667 words 36 votes
Capital One to buy Discover Financial in $35.3 billion all-stock deal ~finance banking business Article 978 words 32 votes
Why Lionel Messi’s Inter Miami will open the new Major League Soccer season with replacement match officials ~sports.football Article 2001 words 5 votes
American teachers are missing more school, and there are too few substitutes ~life education work Article 1135 words 46 votes
Frequent/long-term use of the Apple Vision Pro may rewire our brains in unexpected ways ~tech apple Article 1706 words 17 votes
Niacin has long been a public health darling. But an excess could be bad for the heart, study suggests. ~health medicine Article 1023 words 15 votes
Robots.txt governed the behavior of web crawlers for over thirty years; AI vendors are ignoring it or proliferating too fast to block ~tech internet Article 3069 words, published Feb 14 2024 41 votes
California's push for mandatory ethnic studies classes runs into the Israel-Palestine conflict in designing a curriculum ~humanities religion Article 2388 words 22 votes
As Bitcoin rallies, banks are pushing US regulators to change crypto guidance ~finance banking cryptocurrency Article 77 words 8 votes
Gen Z and millennials proudly wear ‘lab-grown’ diamonds, oblivious to the fact they’re made from burning coal in China and India ~enviro pollution Article 1143 words 31 votes
American Bar Association calls for US courts to find a different word than master, citing history and negative associations ~humanities history Article 434 words 28 votes
Kristen Stewart ‘I want to do the gayest thing you’ve ever seen in your life’ ~lgbt Article 6748 words 34 votes
Iceland plans to buy out home owners in volcano-struck town of Grindavík – total cost of the buyout could be as much as $440 million ~enviro Article 77 words 20 votes
Power companies are scrambling to satisfy the needs of data centers and new factories in the US ~enviro Article 77 words 22 votes
(Former Morgan Stanley chair) Stephen Roach: It pains me to say Hong Kong is over ~finance economics Article 772 words 17 votes
Kelvin Kiptum, marathon world record holder, dies in car crash at 24 ~sports Article 360 words 20 votes
Kansas City Chiefs score game-winning touchdown to beat San Francisco 49ers in overtime ~sports.american_football Article 1470 words 21 votes
No, aliens haven’t visited the Earth. Why are so many smart people insisting otherwise? ~space Article 6928 words, published Jan 31 2024 29 votes
Ezra Klein Show: "What relationships would you want if you believed they were possible?" ~life Article 5906 words, published Feb 6 2024 21 votes
Mennonites are pious Christians who eschew much of the modern world. But in Mexico even they have not escaped the pull of the drug cartels. ~humanities religion Article 3583 words, published Feb 1 2024 24 votes
How Nikola Jokić became the world’s best basketball player ~sports.basketball Article 5757 words, published Feb 5 2024 7 votes
‘Coyote vs. Acme’ now to be shelved forever as Warner Bros rejected offers from Netflix, Amazon, and Paramount ~movies Link 34 votes
Polyamory, the ruling class’s latest fad ~life relationships Article 3186 words, published Feb 1 2024 23 votes
In the Mexican city that once perfumed the world, a push to revive vanilla ~food Article 1965 words, published Feb 5 2024 11 votes
US federal appeals court rejects Donald Trump’s claim of absolute immunity ~news usa politics.usa Article 1484 words 82 votes