The eighteen-month fence hop, the six-day chair, and the difficulties of getting small details right in video games
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How life sciences actually work
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The crowdfunded Dragonfly Futurefön scammed backers for over $725,000, but was only the last step in a decade-long multi-million dollar fraud
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Interoperability and privacy: Squaring the circle
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How Instagram uses static analysis like linting and automated refactoring to help manage their multi-million-line Python codebase
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Lyme disease is baffling, even to experts
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The entropic brain: A theory of conscious states informed by neuroimaging research with psychedelic drugs
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The metastasizing cancer of the Southern Strategy
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The anthropocene is a joke: On geological timescales, human civilization is an event, not an epoch
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Henry Flynt: The meaning of my avant-garde hillbilly and blues music
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Welcome to Bon Iver, Wisconsin
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Three years of misery inside Google, the happiest company in tech
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Director's Cut Part 1 - Destiny 2's game director on where the game has been over the last few months and where it's heading next
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The Valve Index Ear Speakers - Research, design, and evolution
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Debunking debunked
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Ta-Nehisi Coates talks to Jesmyn Ward about writing fiction, reparations, and the legacy of slavery
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Kathleen Hanna on the reign of 'Rebel Girl'
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Marxism, Buddhism and socialism
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Arming the cartels: The inside story of a Texas gun-smuggling ring
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The tragic story of Jimmy Aldaoud, deported from the streets of Detroit to his death in Iraq
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Say cheese: Ransomware-ing a DSLR camera
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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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