How will the movies (as we know them) survive the next ten years? Twenty-four major Hollywood figures peer into the future ~movies Article 596 words 7 votes
Scary fast: How hypersonic missiles are touching off a new global arms race that threatens to change the nature of warfare ~tech Article 5440 words 9 votes
Blind reverence for the US Constitution—on the left and right—is tearing us apart ~misc politics Article 2257 words 8 votes
Last year, a museum in France dedicated to the work of Étienne Terrus discovered that over half of its collection was fake. Phil Hoad spent nine months investigating how it happened. ~arts art painting Article 3642 words, published Jun 15 2019 9 votes
Bodies in seats: At Facebook’s worst-performing content moderation site in North America, one contractor has died, and others say they fear for their lives ~tech social media facebook Article 6263 words 28 votes
Hell is high water: When will the Mississippi River come for New Orleans? ~enviro Article 3338 words 6 votes
Rethinking open source: The challenges behind establishing a modern emulator ~tech Article 4280 words 21 votes
The medical ethics of fertility clinics refusing to treat prospective mothers they consider too large ~health healthcare Article 4924 words 6 votes
Your professional decline is coming (much) sooner than you think ~life work Article 6663 words 16 votes
How Teach for America evolved into an arm of the charter school movement ~humanities education Article 5421 words 6 votes
This land is whose land? Indian country and the shortcomings of settler protest ~humanities.history Article 2937 words, published Jun 14 2019 4 votes
‘The Saudis couldn’t do it without us’: The UK’s true role in Yemen’s deadly war ~misc Article 5383 words 5 votes
The loophole: He held her down, choked her, and masturbated onto her. The law said it wasn't sexual assault. ~life nsfw Article 6940 words 22 votes
This psychologist explains why people confess to crimes they didn’t commit ~science psychology Article 3579 words, published Jun 11 2019 17 votes
C.S. Peirce on science and belief ~humanities philosophy Article 4029 words, published Apr 16 2019 4 votes
Don’t know which toaster to buy? There’s a website for that: When did recommendation sites become such a central part of the online economy? And are they changing the way we shop? ~tech internet Article 5845 words 8 votes
Who has your back? Censorship edition 2019 - Report by the EFF that assesses major tech companies' content moderation policies ~tech social media Article 9474 words 8 votes
An oral history of Vincent D’Onofrio’s perfect Men in Black ‘sugar water’ scene ~movies science fiction Article 3208 words 8 votes
‘Bread is practically sacred’: how the taste of home sustained my refugee parents ~food baking Article 4147 words 6 votes
Plausible deniability and gaslighting in fighting ad blockers ~tech browsers Article 3326 words, published Jun 4 2019 24 votes
The day the music burned - The 2008 Universal fire was the biggest disaster in the history of the music business — and almost nobody knew ~music Article 12 222 words 16 votes
The best women’s soccer team in the world fights for equal pay ~sports.football Article 4860 words 9 votes
The war to free science: How librarians, pirates, and funders are liberating the world’s academic research from paywalls ~science Article 3607 words, published Jun 3 2019 17 votes
The Best They’ve Got: Examining the National Review’s “Against Socialism” issue ~misc politics Article 6724 words 25 votes
Big mood machine - Spotify pursues emotional surveillance for global profit ~tech Article 3839 words 12 votes
Apollo’s brain: The computer that guided man to the Moon ~space spaceflight Article 3133 words 5 votes
A vast archive exposed the secret history of kidnapping and assassination in Guatemala. Now it’s under threat ~news guatemala politics Article 3208 words 5 votes
Reckless in Riyadh: Some American policymakers and scholars are questioning whether the alliance with Saudi Arabia still makes sense for the US ~misc politics Article 5116 words 4 votes
Wonderland lost: Forty years ago, Earth, Wind & Fire’s final opus produced disco’s last great moment. My dad was there for all of it. ~music Article 4546 words 5 votes
How artificial intelligence will revolutionize the way video games are developed and played ~games Article 3781 words, published Mar 6 2019 8 votes
How the pursuit of leisure drives internet use: The second half of humanity is joining the internet ~tech internet Article 3855 words 4 votes
Bullhead City, Arizona was a retiree paradise. Then came a biblical plague of flies. ~enviro water Article 3638 words 8 votes