Mississippi is forbidding grocery stores from calling veggie burgers “veggie burgers” ~food meat Article 1399 words 21 votes
Five trans Catholics on the Vatican’s rejection of their gender identity ~lgbt transgender Article 1191 words 7 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
Aung San Suu Kyi meets with Hungary’s Orbán to lament their “growing Muslim populations” ~news myanmar hungary Article 648 words 7 votes
We should opt into data tracking, not out of it, says DuckDuckGo CEO Gabe Weinberg ~tech Article 9747 words, published May 27 2019 10 votes
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 ~tech Article 3202 words, published May 31 2019 5 votes
The rise of meatless meat, explained: Nine questions about meat alternatives you were too embarrassed to ask ~food meat Article 4128 words 8 votes
Could Barcelona’s plan to push out cars and build superblocks work in the US? ~design urban planning Article 2014 words, published Apr 12 2019 11 votes
A poetry-writing AI has just been unveiled. It’s ... pretty good. ~books poetry Article 2195 words 10 votes
South Africa’s ruling party ANC wins reelection ~news south africa politics Article 883 words 6 votes
The rise of fear-based social media like Nextdoor, Citizen, and now Amazon’s Neighbors ~tech social media amazon.neighbors Article 2180 words 13 votes
The making of Amazon Prime - An oral history of the subscription service that changed online shopping forever ~tech amazon.prime Article 5785 words 6 votes
Burger King is the latest brand to use depression as a marketing tool ~design advertising Article 941 words 11 votes
The productivity pit: Work communication software like Teams, Slack, and Workplace were supposed to make us more productive. They haven’t. ~tech Article 4011 words 10 votes
The once-hot robotics startup Anki is shutting down after raising more than $200 million ~tech Article 597 words 7 votes
Netflix’s wonderful Street Food focuses on the human aspect of ordinary food ~tv reviews Article 1685 words 6 votes
The most prescient science fiction author you aren’t reading: Feminist dystopian fiction owes just as much to this woman — who wrote as a man — as Margaret Atwood. ~books science fiction fiction Article 1893 words, published Apr 18 2019 8 votes
Malaria is among the world’s biggest killers of children. Now there’s a vaccine. ~health medicine Article 1053 words 5 votes
Women suffer needless pain because almost everything is designed for men ~life Article 2312 words 18 votes
Sudan’s longtime leader was ousted in a military coup. Protesters still want democracy. ~society politics Article 1726 words 7 votes
Hindsight 2070: We asked fifteen experts, “What do we do now that will be considered unthinkable in fifty years?” Here’s what they told us ~humanities Article 465 words, published Mar 27 2019 12 votes
Moral circle expansion: How humanity’s idea of who deserves moral concern has grown — and will keep growing ~humanities philosophy ethics Article 2976 words 9 votes
Maryland just became the sixth state to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour ~finance Article 1115 words 23 votes
New York’s Orthodox Jewish community is battling measles outbreaks. Vaccine deniers are to blame. ~health Article 2105 words, published Nov 9 2018 8 votes
The best $5,929.10 I ever spent: Moving back to the Midwest ~life housing Article 2162 words 12 votes
Robert Mueller’s “collusion” case so far, explained ~society politics Article 1992 words, published Feb 21 2019 7 votes
New Zealand prime minister on mosque shooter: “You will never hear me mention his name” ~news politics new zealand.christchurch Article 389 words 12 votes
Captain Marvel has made $760 million worldwide. $1 billion is in its sights. ~movies Article 399 words 18 votes
Why tech companies failed to keep the New Zealand shooter’s extremism from going viral ~tech social media Article 2305 words 9 votes
Why are millennials burned out? Capitalism. ~humanities Article 2147 words, published Feb 4 2019 17 votes
Twitter has ambitious plans to change the way we tweet by limiting snark and improving the "health" of interactions, but so far it's gone nowhere ~tech social media Article 2714 words 15 votes
Decaf coffee's terrible reputation is outdated, but it's still scorned because of what caffeine represents ~food drinks Article 2754 words, published Mar 7 2019 4 votes
Many companies like Lyft and Uber are going public without having profits - The last time this was so common was in 2000, right before the dot-com bubble burst ~tech Article 1840 words 15 votes
Flickr will soon start deleting photos — and massive chunks of internet history ~tech social media internet google facebook Article 1626 words, published Feb 6 2019 27 votes
Kara Swisher’s live-tweeted interview with Jack Dorsey highlighted how difficult it is to follow a conversation on Twitter ~tech social media Article 839 words 10 votes
Spotify is in talks to pay more than $200 million to acquire Gimlet Media, the startup behind popular podcasts like Reply All ~tech Article 469 words 16 votes
The Supreme Court just declined to hear Exxon Mobil’s appeal in a climate change lawsuit ~enviro climate change Article 555 words 19 votes