How I taught the Iliad to Chinese teenagers
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The day I put $50,000 in a shoe box and handed it to a stranger
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How Cory Doctorow got scammed (and why AI will make it worse)
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Over three decades, tech obliterated media - my front-row seat to a slow-moving catastrophe
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I rent a million-dollar home: Why can’t I buy one?
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Coming of age at the dawn of the social internet (LiveJournal, AIM, and other pre-Facebook internet things)
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Can ‘micro-acts of joy’ make you happier? I tried them for seven days.
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My disabled son’s amazing gaming life in the World of Warcraft (2019)
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Experience: I own the world’s oldest living cat
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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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I’ve been stopped and searched by the police since I was sixteen
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After 800 years, volcanic activity has returned to Reykjanes – Andri Snær Magnason reflects on the Icelandic relationship with volcanoes
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My doomed career as a North Korean novelist
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How to stop an Icelandic whale hunt – Elissa Phillips and Anahita Babaei on chaining themselves to the crow's nests of whaling vessels for thirty-three hours
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Here’s what happened when I taught a fly-fishing course in the waterways of New Orleans
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The Day After - Forty years ago my father scared 100 million viewers in America
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The Australian scientist who tried to raise the alarm about climate change asks himself "Where did I go wrong?"
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I texted my friend for years after she died. Then I received a five-word reply that left me shaken.
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The Survivors - One year later, those who lived through the Club Q shooting are still healing. These are their stories.
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The Russians snitching on colleagues and strangers
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‘The only way for us to survive’: The life of a New York City candy seller
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I skipped to the ending
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Nicholas’s story: ‘I’ve been locked up for ten years because I’m autistic. Is a chance at life too much to ask?’
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I had my first kiss in GemStone III
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How did deepfake images of me end up on a porn site?
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I ran 365 marathons in 365 days
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Why musicians get the yips
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I didn’t go to my dream school. Now I’m living debt-free.
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"My dad painted the iconic cover for Jethro Tull’s ‘Aqualung,’ and it’s haunted him ever since"
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Four men: Keeping company with outdoor people
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What I learned about algorithmic bias from creating the first AI-generated faces on Wikimedia Commons
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The great Zelle pool scam - All I wanted was a status symbol. What I got was a $31,000 lesson in the downside of payment apps.
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I used to love Marvel. Now it feels like homework
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It's very weird to have a skull full of poison
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Writing for Friends was no dream job
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What does any of this have to do with physics?
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My secret to dating in San Francisco is a spreadsheet
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The creators of TikTok caused my website to shut down
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Why I pumped the brakes on vanlife
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I was a female alcoholic — my warning to other women as a survivor
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Teaching myself calculus at sixty-five
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I spent a week alone in the Metaverse
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American Graffiti is about to turn fifty - it helped invent the classic rock genre and inspired this author to embrace change
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A beautiful, broken America: What I learned on a 2,800-mile bus ride from Detroit to LA
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Like many men, I had few close friends. So I began a friendship quest.
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I tried to convince Steve Curry not to take his deadly hike when I met him in Death Valley. The memory haunts me.
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I wanted to make friends in a new city — so I hosted five strangers for dinner
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Dating can be a time suck - SFGATE contributor Amy Copperman explains why co-working makes for such a good first date
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I became an Uber driver for a day... in a tank!
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What my musical instruments have taught me
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