Skywriting - The bizarre art form invented to promote Lucky Strike cigarettes could bounce back in the Instagram age, or it could die with the few people who know how to do it
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I’m harvesting credit card numbers and passwords from your site. Here’s how.
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How the sandwich consumed Britain: The world-beating British sandwich industry is worth £8bn a year
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The rise of meatless meat, explained: Nine questions about meat alternatives you were too embarrassed to ask
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How the elderly lose their rights: Guardians can sell the assets and control the lives of senior citizens without their consent—and reap a profit from it
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A roundtable on faith depiction in SFF
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Confessions of a Reddit 'Karma Whore': My years-long journey to the top of Reddit's karma leaderboards has only made me feel more alone
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Why over sixty years of animation history still remains obscure
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Shaelin Bishop - I Will Never Tell You This
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The disadvantages of an elite education: Our best universities have forgotten that the reason they exist is to make minds, not careers
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All-American despair: For the past two decades, a suicide epidemic fueled by guns, poverty and isolation has swept across the West, with middle-aged men dying in record numbers
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In 2017, Hussein Kesvani started getting regular Twitter messages from an anonymous Islamophobic user. Eventually he responded, they started talking, and arranged to meet
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Lil Nas X's "Old Town Road", the media echo chamber, and Shane Morris’s vile past
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The last season of Game of Thrones feels so wrong because its storytelling style changed from sociological to psychological
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The Federation Fallacy
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One week with the Valve Index: A VR game-changer with a few question marks
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While Rui Pinto sits in jail, his "Football Leaks" revelations are bringing down European soccer's most famous teams and players
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‘A zombie party’: The deepening crisis of conservatism
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The Permian Basin is booming with oil. But at what cost to West Texans?
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In a Colombian family’s dementia, a journey through race and history
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People are moving to smaller cities in search of affordable houses that don't exist
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Canada’s saddest grow-op: My humiliating adventures in growing marijuana
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An (even more) inconvenient truth: Why carbon credits for forest preservation may be worse than nothing
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Metadata Investigation: Inside Hacking Team
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Separated by design: How some of America’s richest towns fight affordable housing
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“Billionaires, bombers, and bellydancers”: How the first Arab American movie star foretold a century of Muslim misrepresentation
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The undercover fascist - A young Englishman got mixed up in a white-supremacist movement. Then he learned of a plot to kill a politician.
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Impossible Foods’ rising empire of almost-meat
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David Milch’s third act
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Shady numbers and bad business: Inside the esports bubble
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Men have no friends and women bear the burden
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Muslims of early America: Muslims came to America more than a century before Protestants, and in great numbers. How was their history forgotten?
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Who begs to go to prison? California jail inmates
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What happened when I met my Islamophobic troll
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The curious cons of the man who wouldn’t die
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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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The Voynich Manuscript may have successfully been decoded
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Laying out all the evidence: Shiva Ayyadurai did not invent email
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Python built-ins worth learning
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How greed and corruption blew up South Korea’s nuclear industry
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Defend Your Clinics: It’s time for an abortion rights movement that’s not directed from the top-down. Clinic defense is a crucial part of that mass, democratic, and militant movement.
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Emilia Clarke on the final episode of “Game of Thrones,” meeting Beyoncé, and the fate of Daenerys Targaryen
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Losing Religion and Finding Ecstasy in Houston
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How Australia’s Labor Party lost an un-losable election
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Solitary voices: Thousands of immigrants suffer in solitary sonfinement in ICE detention
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Earle Sweatshirt doesn't exist
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Water democracy: Farmers in New Mexico band together to protect scarce water resources from developments that could end their way of life
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What happened when I bought a house with solar panels
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Why physicians are prescribing time in nature
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The University of Maryland waited eighteen days to inform students of a virus on campus. That decision left vulnerable students like Olivia Paregol in the dark
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