Goodbye, show world: The last days of Times Square’s peep shows ~humanities.history Article 2135 words 5 votes
US Navy SEALs were warned against reporting their chief for war crimes ~news usa crime.war Article 2616 words 10 votes
The hyperbolic "battle" between Steven Spielberg and Netflix fizzles out, as the Academy announces no change to Oscars eligibility rules ~movies Article 1512 words 7 votes
Lou Ortenzio was a trusted West Virginia doctor who got his patients—and himself—hooked on opioids. Now he’s trying to rescue his community from an epidemic he helped start. ~health medicine Article 5237 words 5 votes
When a country bans social media - Sri Lanka’s ban on social media forces a question nobody wants to ask: what if a global media network is impossible? ~tech social media internet Article 529 words 5 votes
The Black feminists who saw the alt-right threat coming ~tech social media Article 3550 words 10 votes
Microsoft staff are openly questioning the value of diversity ~life work Article 1454 words, published Apr 19 2019 18 votes
Kosoko Jackson’s book scandal suggests YA Twitter is getting uglier ~books fiction.young adult Article 1140 words, published Mar 4 2019 12 votes
Greenland is falling apart: Since 1972, the giant island's ice sheet has lost eleven quadrillion pounds of water ~enviro climate change water Article 523 words 10 votes
Cry for Notre-Dame, sure, but why not for treasures beyond the West? ~humanities.history Article 20 votes
This is your brain on nationalism ~science biology Article 2670 words, published Feb 12 2019 14 votes
When a treatment costs $450,000 or more, it had better work ~health healthcare Article 504 words 8 votes
Hurricane Center reclassifies Michael to category 5, the first such storm to make landfall since 1992 ~enviro Article 552 words 7 votes
Is prison necessary? Ruth Wilson Gilmore might change your mind. ~life Article 7886 words, published Apr 17 2019 20 votes
Biosphere 2 - The lost history of one of the world’s strangest science experiments ~science Article 2033 words, published Mar 29 2019 13 votes
Human contact is now a luxury good | Screens used to be for the elite. Now avoiding them is a status symbol. ~tech social media Article 2050 words, published Mar 23 2019 13 votes
Labor demands Facebook remove 'fake news' posts about false Australian death tax plans ~tech social media facebook Article 441 words 9 votes
Jeopardy! legend Ken Jennings on James Holzhauer: 'It's absolutely insane' ~tv Article 1736 words 9 votes
The data all guilt-ridden parents need: What science tells us about breast-feeding, sleep training and all the agonizing decisions of parenthood ~health Article 3365 words 15 votes
Dentistry is much less scientific—and more prone to gratuitous procedures—than you may think ~health medicine Article 5011 words, published Apr 15 2019 10 votes
How Southern Baptists Are Grappling With Artificial Intelligence ~humanities religion Article 932 words, published Apr 12 2019 10 votes
Facebook says it 'unintentionally uploaded' 1.5 million people's email contacts without their consent ~tech social media facebook privacy Article 588 words 22 votes
Will we find extraterrestrial life on ice worlds? Why Europa is the place to go for alien life. ~space astronomy Article 2429 words 4 votes
Police are making tone-deaf memes to build community trust ~tech internet social media Article 5 votes
The age of robot farmers - Picking strawberries takes speed, stamina, and skill. Can a robot do it? ~food Article 6712 words 14 votes
After Notre Dame fire, Philadelphia’s historic Christ Church demonstrates its ‘water curtain’ ~design architecture Article 885 words 7 votes
An internet for kids: Instead of regulating the internet to protect young people, give them a youth-net of their own ~tech internet Article 577 words 12 votes
End the tyranny of Arial: The big internet platforms use the same fonts and backgrounds. Let’s make it interesting again. ~design typography Article 1304 words 15 votes
Guantánamo’s darkest secret - The US military prison’s leadership considered Mohamedou Salahi to be its highest-value detainee. But his guard suspected otherwise. ~life Article 19 771 words 14 votes
The Iranian spider-tailed viper preys on birds by luring them with a spider-shaped bulge on its tail ~science biology Article 1536 words 11 votes
Comedian Ian Cognito dies onstage – and the audience think it’s part of his act ~news united kingdom Article 116 words, published Apr 12 2019 18 votes
The removal of fuel from Fukushima reactors begins, eight years after the disaster ~enviro energy Article 8 votes
A rare trio of bald eagles — two dads, one mom — are raising eaglets together in one nest ~enviro Article 707 words 8 votes
Scott Kelly spent a year in orbit. His body is not quite the same. ~space spaceflight Article 2027 words 11 votes
Chicago’s ankle monitors can call and record kids without their consent ~tech privacy Article 7 votes