Politics and the English language
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The story of the IBM Pentium 4 64-bit CPU
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Red to green: The stark evolution of Christchurch's abandoned acres
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What if the US were treated like the rogue nation it is?
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The sun sets on We - The story of WeWork's IPO postponement and CEO ouster
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Snowden in the Labyrinth
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The hedge fund billionaire’s guide to buying your kids a better shot at not just one elite college, but lots of them
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Are New Zealanders buying slave-picked tinned tomatoes?
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Why can’t we agree on what’s true any more?
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The internet is overrun with images of child sexual abuse. What went wrong?
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A book from Alan Turing… and a mysterious piece of paper
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Developer of Checkm8 explains why the unpatchable iOS jailbreak exploit is a game changer
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Neither, and new: Lessons from Uber and Vision Fund
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How cities reshape the evolutionary path of urban wildlife
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Four years in startups - Life in Silicon Valley during the dawn of the unicorns
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About Alexis Kennedy
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Scott Aaronson's Quantum Supremacy FAQ
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Alexis Kennedy of Weather Factory (formerly Failbetter) responds to the abuse allegations made toward him three weeks ago
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Preparing for our prefab future
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Introducing Ristretto: A high performance, concurrent, memory-bound Go cache
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Unhappy meals - How 'food science' made us unhealthy
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The hardest effect I ever pulled off, by forty-two filmmakers, cinematographers, and effects artists
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How I learned to cycle like a Dutchman
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Jack Conte, Patreon, and the plight of the creative class
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Crash course: How Boeing's managerial revolution created the 737 Max disaster
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How to keep teachers from leaving the profession
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The hardest song I ever chased
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How to be a professional author and not die screaming and starving in a lightless abyss
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English is not normal: No, English isn’t uniquely vibrant or mighty or adaptable. But it really is weirder than pretty much every other language.
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The blood-dimmed tide - Climate change is poised to alter the face of global conflict
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Dark crystals: The brutal reality behind a booming wellness craze
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A second chance - Twelve years ago, forty-seven dogs were rescued from Michael Vick’s dogfighting operation and allowed to live
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Inside the launch of the Cosmic Crisp apple, the “largest launch of a produce item in American history”
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Raising prices is hard
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When prosecutors bury NYPD officers' lies
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Russia carried out a massive breach of FBI communications system, escalating the spy game on US soil
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Constance Wu’s Hollywood destiny - Coming late to celebrity, the star has felt the burden of representing all Asian-Americans
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The real Donald Trump is a character on TV
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Fear and oppression in Xinjiang: China’s war on Uighur culture
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What college admissions offices really want - Elite schools say they’re looking for academic excellence and diversity. But their thirst for tuition revenue means that wealth trumps all
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The story of Caroline Calloway and her ghostwriter Natalie
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Inside the competitive oyster-shucking scene in China
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Behind the front lines of the Ebola wars
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The rise and fall of Iceland's tourism miracle – the widespread decline of tourism across the country presents intractable problems
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Less human than human: The design philosophy of Steve Jobs
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Intersections in real time: the decision to build the KH-11 KENNEN reconnaissance satellite
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Free Solo climber Alex Honnold's next summit? The rest of his life
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Strike with the band - The world of classical music is neither noble nor fair, though its reputation says otherwise
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Runaway story or meltdown in motion? The unraveling of the WeWork IPO
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Face recognition, bad people and bad data
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