The forensic science of drowning, and how it landed a father in prison for murder of his daughter ~science Article 10 202 words 6 votes
Amazon’s US antitrust antagonist has a breakthrough idea ~finance business Article 3724 words, published Sep 7 2018 19 votes
The YouTube stars heading for burnout: ‘The most fun job imaginable became deeply bleak’ ~life work Article 3158 words 33 votes
The water crises aren’t coming—they’re here ~enviro water natural disasters Article 5749 words, published Aug 23 2018 21 votes
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 ~tech privacy Article 3731 words 8 votes
The dynasty that never was: Inside the unraveling of the Seattle Seahawks ~sports.american_football Article 4514 words 7 votes
"The Social Ideology of the Motorcar" by André Gorz, 1973 ~transport Article 3652 words, published Aug 11 2018 4 votes
How a rogue Romanian economist legally gamed the lottery and won millions of dollars around the world ~misc Article 1764 words, published Aug 25 2018 10 votes
The other political correctness: America's elite universities are censoring themselves on China ~humanities education.higher Article 6514 words 11 votes
How BoJack Horseman got made - An oral history of TV’s favorite alcoholic, narcissistic, self-destructive talking horse ~tv Article 5369 words 13 votes
"Cat Pictures Please" by Naomi Kritzer ~books short stories science fiction Article 3455 words 11 votes
The roots of cooking for the sick and why hospital food is so bad ~health healthcare Article 3428 words, published Jul 16 2018 13 votes
The misremembering of McGwire-Sosa: Nobody cared that Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa were using, right up until they did. ~sports.baseball Article 4498 words 9 votes
How to change the course of human history ~humanities.history Article 8830 words, published Mar 2 2018 7 votes
Fitbit's 150 billion hours of heart data reveal secrets about health ~health Article 2247 words, published Aug 27 2018 11 votes
Meet the table busser who’s worked at the same pancake house for fifty-four years and still makes minimum wage ~finance economics Article 3297 words 14 votes
The new old age - Longevity is now our reality. Are we ready for it? ~life Article 5349 words 8 votes
The FBI used the #MeToo movement to pressure an environmental activist into becoming an informant ~enviro Article 5375 words 12 votes
What happens when your bomb-defusing robot becomes a weapon ~tech Article 3282 words, published Apr 26 2018 12 votes
Neoliberalism – the ideology at the root of all our problems ~humanities Article 3029 words, published Apr 15 2016 34 votes
Even before electricity, robots freaked people out ~tech Article 7073 words, published Jul 30 2018 5 votes
David Foster Wallace on John McCain: ‘The Weasel, Twelve Monkeys and the Shrub’ (2000) ~misc Article 6 votes
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 ~games.tabletop card games Article 3384 words, published Aug 22 2018 10 votes
The humanities are in crisis - Students are abandoning humanities majors, turning to degrees they think yield far better job prospects. But they’re wrong. ~humanities education.higher Article 3072 words 15 votes
How baseball’s tech team built the future of television ~sports.baseball Article 4049 words, published Aug 4 2015 6 votes
The impossible job: Inside Facebook’s struggle to moderate two billion people ~tech social media facebook Article 9455 words 14 votes
There should be ‘consequences’ for platforms that don’t remove people like Alex Jones, US Senator Ron Wyden says ~tech internet social media Article 3069 words 12 votes
How an international hacker network turned stolen press releases into $100 million ~tech Article 6934 words 12 votes
Our pungent history: Sweat, perfume, and the scent of death ~science Article 4110 words, published Mar 8 2016 4 votes