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Rare half-male, half-female cardinal spotted in Pennsylvania
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Anand Giridharadas on the fallacy of billionaire philanthropy
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A tiny screw shows why iPhones won’t be ‘assembled in USA’
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Facebook plans to integrate WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook Messenger
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“Most startups,” [Dan Lyons] writes, “are terribly managed, half-assed outfits run by buffoons and bozos and frat boys.”
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"The hacker tourist ventures forth across the wide and wondrous meatspace of three continents, chronicling the laying of the longest wire on Earth." (Neal Stephenson, 1996)
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The cacao cult: Why chocolate is hot right now
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Stop trusting viral videos
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To save the sound of a Stradivarius, a whole city must keep quiet
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Netflix, YouTube, Amazon and Apple accused of GDPR breach
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Europe’s most important river is running dry
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Demand for cassettes surges as music fans hit rewind
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Disney's most important movie of 2019 isn't 'Avengers' or 'Star Wars'
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When leaders are bullies
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I Am Spock: Film legend's grandson takes on iconic TV role
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Glaciers are retreating. Millions rely on their water.
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A German mint just released a coin commemorating seventy years of currywurst
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Who owns the internet? (What Big Tech’s monopoly powers mean for our culture.)
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The world's oldest person: Guinness, 122-year-old Jeanne Calment and a Russian conspiracy theory
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Why the UK's porn block is one of the worst ideas ever
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Waste crisis looms as thousands of solar panels reach end of life
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SpaceX to lay off over 10% of its workforce
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The weight I carry - What it’s like to be too big in America
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Some plants “hear” through flowers. A study found petals vibrated in response to recordings of a bee’s wingbeats, leading plants to sweeten their nectar.
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The twenty best TV dramas since ‘The Sopranos’
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It's the end of the gene as we know it
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Must writers be moral? Their contracts may require it
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The stunning chart revealing Australia's record-breaking run of rising temperatures
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Build the US wall? It could take at least ten years, even with 10,000 workers.
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The world’s oldest woman was 122 when she died. A researcher believes that her daughter assumed her identity in the 1930s to avoid inheritance taxes.
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The relentlessness of modern parenting
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Life lessons from a lifestyle business - An interview with Matt Haughey, founder of MetaFilter
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Beyond the bottom line: Should business put purpose before profit?
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YouTube stars are pushing a shady Polish gambling site
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The 'future book' is here, but it's not what we expected
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'Influential' Australia should join the G7, says London think tank
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Children of Ted - Two decades after his last deadly act of ecoterrorism, the Unabomber has become an unlikely prophet to a new generation of acolytes
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In screening for suicide risk, Facebook takes on tricky public health role
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Thirty-five years ago, Isaac Asimov was asked by the Star to predict the world of 2019. Here is what he wrote.
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As a US grocery chain is dismantled, investors recover their money. Worker pensions are short millions.
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The other side of paradise: How I left a Buddhist retreat in handcuffs
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I am staying home on New Year's Eve, and I'm totally fine about it
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Washington state officials passed a bill to rename a post office near Jimi Hendrix‘s hometown of Seattle to honor the guitar god.
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How the artificial intelligence program AlphaZero mastered its games
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A new book describes Hunter S. Thompson’s prescience. “Trump is present on every page, even though he’s never mentioned once,” the author says.
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Let the fountain pens flow - In this coldly pixelated age, old-fashioned writing implements make a small but meaningful comeback
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How much of the internet is fake?
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Thinking of going vegan for the new year? Think again.
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Inside Facebook’s secret rulebook for global political speech
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