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How big pharma was captured by the one percent
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Elizabeth Warren’s Classroom Strategy: A lifelong teacher, she’s the most professorial presidential candidate ever. But does America want to be taught?
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The Great Escape - The origin, business, and attraction of escape rooms
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How San Francisco’s wealthiest families launched Kamala Harris
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Is it possible to stop a mass shooting before it happens?: Somewhere in America, an investigator known as the Savant is infiltrating online hate groups to take down the most violent men in the country
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The feminist movement in Saudi Arabia
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The lonely work of moderating Hacker News
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Grenada’s revolution at forty
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Typesetting Markdown – Part 7: Mathematics
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Rethinking the good city: Vallejo’s bold vision
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Can overdose-prevention sites work in the US?
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Inside the rise and fall of MoviePass
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Concrete Utopia: An art exhibition on Yugoslavia documents an extraordinary architectural legacy that has been neglected by mainstream historians
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Drink up, stoners: Big Alcohol's pursuit to make weed beverages
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The absurdities of 'franchise fatigue' and 'sequelitis' (or, what is happening to the box office?!)
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Millennial socialism and its limits
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Activision Blizzard has moved billions of dollars of profit into tax havens and is under investigation by multiple international tax authorities
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The human cost of amber - Fossils preserved in sap offer an astonishingly clear view of the distant past, but they come at a high price
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How long does it take to make a classic album?
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The JRPG Startup Cost, Part II - An analysis of how long it takes to reach various gameplay milestones in classic JRPGs
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The life and death of an Instagram fish - What one funny-looking fish taught us about evolution, the internet, and the monsters we create
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The empty radicalism of the climate apocalypse: What would it mean to get serious about climate change?
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He’d been kept alive with tubes for nearly seventeen years. Who is he, and is it possible he’s conscious?
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One day, one city, no relief - twenty-four hours inside San Francisco’s homelessness crisis
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Shade: It’s a civic resource, an index of inequality, and a requirement for public health. Shade should be a mandate for urban designers
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Destiny 2's switch to free-to-play and new Shadowkeep expansion have been delayed to October 1 (previously September 17)
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Inside the broken case of David Ortiz's shooting in the Dominican Republic
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Dispelling the myth of robotic efficiency
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We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture
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Is fair trade finished? Fairtrade changed the way we shop. But major companies have started to abandon it and set up their own in-house imitations – threatening the very idea of fair trade.
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Humans will never colonize Mars
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Journalists often withhold details of mass shooters and suicides to discourage copycats. Should that “strategic silence” be extended to extremist speech, misinformation, and propaganda, too?
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The last days of John Allen Chau, the American missionary who was killed in November 2018 by the uncontacted tribe on North Sentinel Island
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How the plastics industry is fighting to keep polluting the world
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The near impossible twenty-year journey to translate Fire Emblem: Thracia 776
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Airborne concentrations and chemical considerations of radioactive ruthenium from an undeclared major nuclear release in 2017
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YouTube said it was getting serious about hate speech. Over six weeks later, why is it still full of extremists?
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The perilous trip of Iboga, Africa’s premier psychedelic
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Tainted by association: Would you carve a roast with a knife that had been used in a murder? Why not? And what does this tell us about ethics?
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'Desert Island Dump' A three-part study of the most polluted beach in the world.
Desert Island Dump Chapter 1: Shipwrecked Chapter 2: The Big Haul Chapter 3: "Stolen from Talley's" Here's an abriged version: Henderson Island: the Pacific paradise groaning under 18 tonnes of...
Desert Island Dump
Here's an abriged version: Henderson Island: the Pacific paradise groaning under 18 tonnes of plastic waste
And a video of the beach.
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The Voter Suppression Chronicles: When the Roberts Court all but nullified the Voting Rights Act, it said the pre-1965 practices were long gone. New hearings by the House make clear: They’re back.
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Tax Watch UK report: Grand Theft Auto developer Rockstar has paid no UK corporate tax in ten years and claimed £42m in subsidies
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Democracy's Dilemma: Democracies rely on free exchange of ideas and information, but that can also be weaponized. How can democratic societies protect—and protect themselves from—this?
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The man who’s going to save your neighborhood grocery store
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Five myths about global poverty
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More people need to talk about having fewer children
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One night wonder: They got their shot on Broadway—and they blew it
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Marxism and Buddhism: Life is suffering, whether you sit under a Bodhi Tree or stand with the workers. But do the two schools agree on the remedy?
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David Sirlin's new fighting game Fantasy Strike released today - this is his summary of its notable features and innovations
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