The boring intimacy of the all-day group chat
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Abolish the priesthood: To save the Church, Catholics must detach themselves from the clerical hierarchy—and take the faith back into their own hands
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Social media are ruining political discourse
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"Breakfast food" is a lie - Americans eat a narrower variety of foods for breakfast than anyone else
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Pope Francis stops hiding from the Church’s sexual-abuse epidemic
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Listening to my neighbors fight
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I tried to make Facebook's news feed random and fun
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South Africa confronts a legacy of apartheid: Why land reform is a key issue in the upcoming election
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What number of kids makes parents happiest?
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SpaceX’s unnerving silence on an explosive incident
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Giant pandas are macronutritional carnivores - A new study shows that the nutrient profile of the bear’s all-bamboo diet is much closer to that of a typical meat eater
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Everything is a subscription now
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Instagram is the new mall
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Learning my father’s language: I made a vow to teach myself Irish, the language my mother struggled to learn, so that my daughters may learn it too
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"Looping" has created an underground market for old Medtronic insulin pumps with a security flaw
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How technology could revolutionize refugee resettlement
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The tragic post-hockey life of an NHL ‘enforcer’
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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.
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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?
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Greenland is falling apart: Since 1972, the giant island's ice sheet has lost eleven quadrillion pounds of water
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When a treatment costs $450,000 or more, it had better work
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Dentistry is much less scientific—and more prone to gratuitous procedures—than you may think
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The cataclysmic break that (maybe) occurred in 1950
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Behind every robot is a human
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The Hitler Beetle and other oddities of scientific naming
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Protesters in Sudan and Algeria have learned from the Arab Spring
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What a year in space did to Scott Kelly
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Socialism, but in Iowa
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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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Millennials are sick of drinking, but they’re not giving up booze just yet
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M-16: A bureaucratic horror story
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Nazis have always been trolls
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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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Elite colleges constantly tell low-income students that they do not belong
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The hottest chat app for teens is … Google Docs
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How Discord went mainstream
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Solar geo-engineering: It won’t hurt a bit!
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India’s and Pakistan’s lies thwarted a war—for now
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Workism is making Americans miserable
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The latest diet trend is not dieting
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The small, small world of Facebook’s anti-vaxxers
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The microphones that may be hidden in your home
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Climate change enters its blood-sucking phase - as winters grow warmer in North America, thirsty ticks are on the move
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Zebra stripes prevent biting flies from making controlled landings
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Why White people don't use White emoji: Does shame explain the disparity in the lesser use of light-skin-tone symbols in the US?
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How Wall Street bought up America's homes
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Emoji don't mean what they used to - The pictorial language has moved away from ideography and toward illustration
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Scientists are totally rethinking animal cognition
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Online grocery shopping has been slow to catch on - We shop online for almost everything. Why not food?
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Russian-style kleptocracy is infiltrating America
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