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The night the lights went out
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The teacher shortage is real, large and growing, and worse than we thought (part 1)
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The human antivenom project
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The trade secret - Firms that promised high-tech ransomware solutions almost always just pay the hackers
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Inside the long war to protect plastic: Single-use plastic is clogging oceans and landfills. The industry that makes it has waged a decades-long campaign to keep it on the market.
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Honeymoon in Palestine: Reflections on Palestine, its people, and military occupation…
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League on Fire - The curious rise and spectacular crash of the Alliance of American Football
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The global internet is disintegrating. What comes next?
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Angry Birds and the end of privacy
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Younger longer - With greater longevity, the quest to avoid the infirmities of aging is more urgent than ever
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Why I (Still) Love Tech: In Defense of a Difficult Industry
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Maciej Ceglowski's Senate testimony on privacy rights and data collection in a digital economy
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The ruthless, secretive, and sometimes seedy world of hedge fund private investigators
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Mankind, unite!
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Los Angeles Fire Season Is Beginning Again. And It Will Never End. A bulletin from our climate future.
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The methane detectives: On the trail of a global warming mystery
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How to rebuild the labor movement, state by state
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The American Dream is killing us
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Secrets of a Maya supermom: What parenting books don't tell you
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Blow up: How half a tonne of cocaine transformed the life of an island
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The birth-tissue profiteers - How well-meaning donations end up fueling an unproven, virtually unregulated $2 billion stem cell industry
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The long tail
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Behemoth, bully, thief: How the English language is taking over the planet
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Bad evidence: Ten years after a landmark study blew the whistle on junk science, the fight over forensics rages on
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'I Have a Plan for That.' Elizabeth Warren Is Betting That Americans Are Ready for Her Big Ideas
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An Alabama “ISIS bride” wants to come home. Can we forgive her horrifying social media posts?
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What happened after my 13-year-old son joined the alt-right
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What Milwaukee can teach the Democrats about socialism
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David's Ankles | An essay on imperfections
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Decade in the red: Trump tax figures show over $1 billion in business losses from 1985 to 1994
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What happens when you put 2,000 nerds on a boat?
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The saga of "Star Citizen," a video game that raised $300 million—but may never be ready to play
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For patients with memory loss, working towards better diagnosis
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‘Deep Sleep’: How an amateur porno set off a massive Federal witch hunt
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Murder and the missing briefcase: The real story behind Harper Lee’s lost true crime book
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A Few Billion Lines of Code Later: Using Static Analysis to Find Bugs in the Real World
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How America’s oldest gun maker went bankrupt: A financial engineering mystery
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A new academic field is trying to pinpoint what makes things cute – and why we can’t resist them
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Measured air samples put Canadian oil sand emissions at higher levels than industry-calculated values made using the internationally recommended methods for estimating the emissions
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What number of kids makes parents happiest?
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How the news took over reality: Is engagement with current affairs key to being a good citizen? Or could an endless torrent of notifications be harming democracy as well as our wellbeing?
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Avengers: Endgame as explained by a first time MCU Viewer
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The Digital Antiquarian: Return to Zork
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Being Nikki Smith - The climber known for those photos and bylines and first ascents is not the same person on the inside. That person isn’t called Nathan at all. Her name is Nikki.
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“Just Switch to Linux” Is The Loser’s Game
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The making of Amazon Prime - An oral history of the subscription service that changed online shopping forever
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My childhood in a cult
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Why big companies squander brilliant ideas
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A former alt-right member’s message: Get out while you still can
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