The intellectual we deserve – Jordan Peterson's popularity is the sign of a deeply impoverished political and intellectual landscape
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How doctors and the church conspired to stop an 11-year-old girl from having an abortion after rape
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"Ethics" and ethics
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Climate chaos is coming and the Pinkertons are ready
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The urgent quest for slower, better news
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‘I’m not racist, but …’
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Fifty shades of white: The long fight against racism in romance novels
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What remains - For the past 148 years, Yosemite’s Lyell Glacier has taught us about the Earth — how it was created, where it was going, and now, how it might end
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VPN - A Very Precarious Narrative
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The golden age of YouTube is over - The platform was built on the backs of independent creators, but now YouTube is abandoning them for more traditional content
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'I hate what they’ve done to almost everyone in my family' (An article about Fox News poisoning.)
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Mapped: The world’s coal power plants
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They had it coming - The parents indicted in the college-admissions scandal were responding to a changing America, with rage at being robbed of what they believed was rightfully theirs
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The illusion of a “marketplace of ideas” and the right to truth
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‘It’s genuine, you know?’: Why the online influencer industry is going ‘authentic’
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The irrationality of Alcoholics Anonymous
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The metabolic adaptation manual: Problems, solutions, and life after weight loss
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How Rupert Murdoch's empire of influence remade the world - a three part report covering the UK, Australia and the USA
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Heaven or high water - Selling Miami's last fifty years
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Heaven or high water—Selling Miami's last fifty years
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How Bioware's Anthem went wrong
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How I eat for free in NYC using Python, automation, artificial intelligence, and Instagram
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The Baraboo Nazi prom photo shocked the world. The city’s response shocked its residents.
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Every Disney direct-to-video sequel, prequel, and mid-quel, ranked
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CloudFlare just launched Warp – a privacy-focused VPN that's supposed to make your Internet-surfing faster
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How sovereign citizens helped swindle $1 billion from the government they disavow
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How Lachlan Murdoch went from studying philosophy at Princeton to exploiting white nationalism at Fox News
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Making anime faces with StyleGAN
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It's opening day! Baseball is back!
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The long, complicated, and extremely frustrating history of Medium, 2012–present
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“The big error was that she was caught”: The untold story behind the mysterious disappearance of Fan Bingbing, the world’s biggest movie star
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Louisiana’s disappearing coast - The state loses a football field’s worth of land every hour and a half. Now engineers are in a race to prevent it from sinking into oblivion.
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Top Scores - From Pong to Red Dead: Can video game music change the way you play?
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The decline of the low countries
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M-16: A bureaucratic horror story
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“The Arisen” - A short story by Louisa Hall about fact, fiction, and libraries
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Electric velomobiles: as fast and comfortable as automobiles, but eighty times more efficient
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What would happen if we just gave people money?
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A beginner’s guide to MMT
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The Digital Antiquarian: Darklands - The first CRPG ever released by MicroProse Software
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Doctors face two enemies in fight against Ebola
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A journey to the "Disappointment Islands", a remote area of Polynesia that hasn't had a visitor in decades
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Stepping into the uncanny, unsettling world of Shen Yun
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Her time: Debra Koosed was diagnosed with dementia at sixty-five. That’s when she decided she no longer wanted to live.
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The great Star Wars heist - The theft of an ultra-rare Boba Fett figure rocks the insular world of Star Wars toy collectors
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What exactly is Amazon? This is the question that has consumed me for the last ten years.
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The fertility doctor’s secret children - Donald Cline used his own sperm to inseminate over fifty of his patients without their knowledge
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Death of the calorie
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"What the hell is going on?" A thoughtful and thorough overview of the rising entropy in society by David Perell
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How Boeing, US FAA certified the suspect 737 MAX flight control system
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