Who controls your data? Nine reporters in London, Paris, New York & San Francisco filed more than 150 requests for personal data to 30+ popular tech companies
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Blood and oil
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Why did America give up on mass transit? (Don't blame cars).
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"The Social Ideology of the Motorcar" by André Gorz, 1973
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The other political correctness: America's elite universities are censoring themselves on China
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How BoJack Horseman got made - An oral history of TV’s favorite alcoholic, narcissistic, self-destructive talking horse
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"Cat Pictures Please" by Naomi Kritzer
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The roots of cooking for the sick and why hospital food is so bad
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Genoa Bridge collapse: The road to tragedy
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The misremembering of McGwire-Sosa: Nobody cared that Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa were using, right up until they did.
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How to change the course of human history
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Fitbit's 150 billion hours of heart data reveal secrets about health
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Meet the table busser who’s worked at the same pancake house for fifty-four years and still makes minimum wage
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The new old age - Longevity is now our reality. Are we ready for it?
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Considerations on cost disease
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The FBI used the #MeToo movement to pressure an environmental activist into becoming an informant
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The mystery of people who speak dozens of languages
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What is cyberpunk? A brief history of the near future.
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Ethan Hawke is still taking Ethan Hawke extremely seriously
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The Ripper: The disturbing Visceral Games project that never was
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What happens when your bomb-defusing robot becomes a weapon
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Neoliberalism – the ideology at the root of all our problems
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Even before electricity, robots freaked people out
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Revisiting a 1958 map of space mysteries
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The State of the Bestiary is Stable - 25 years after release, Magic: The Gathering still strikes a balance between performance and commodity—a mix of chess’s chilly purity and poker’s social theatre
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The great Chinese art heist
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The humanities are in crisis - Students are abandoning humanities majors, turning to degrees they think yield far better job prospects. But they’re wrong.
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How baseball’s tech team built the future of television
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The impossible job: Inside Facebook’s struggle to moderate two billion people
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Should you fear lumbar flexion?
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There should be ‘consequences’ for platforms that don’t remove people like Alex Jones, US Senator Ron Wyden says
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Why bisexual women don't like unicorn hunters
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How an international hacker network turned stolen press releases into $100 million
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The humans of Palestine
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Houston is the new capital of southern cool
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Our pungent history: Sweat, perfume, and the scent of death
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Danah Boyd - The messy fourth estate
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David Hogg, after Parkland. Furious and unflinching, an NRA enemy, an accused “crisis actor,” and a high-school grad trying to figure out what’s next.
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Ring theory: The hidden artistry of the Star Wars prequels
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Growing-ups: Living with your parents, single and with no clear career. Is this a failure to grow up or a whole new stage of life?
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The great Chinese art heist
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Researcher at the center of an epic fraud remains an enigma to those who exposed him
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The city born in a day: The origin story of Oklahoma City
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Axes of evil. Four days, two murders, and one poplar tree that almost ignited World War III.
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How to hire
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The shareholder value myth
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Truth in stereotypes
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Mass authentic
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Dinosaur wars: Scientists behaving badly
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The super bowl of beekeeping
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