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What randomization can and cannot do: The 2019 Nobel Prize
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Facing unbearable heat, Qatar has begun to air-condition the outdoors
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The case for fiber to the home, today: Why fiber is a superior medium for 21st century broadband
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Student tracking, secret scores: How college admissions offices rank prospects before they apply
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What teaching ethics in Appalachia taught me about bridging America’s partisan divide
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Amnesia: The Dark Descent released nine years ago - lessons about designing horror games from Frictional's creative director
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America’s Orthodox Jews are selling a ton of the products you buy on Amazon
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A photographer at the ends of the Earth - Thomas Joshua Cooper risks his life to document the world’s remotest places
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Elizabeth Warren faced sexism, split with a husband and found her voice teaching law in Houston
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Increasingly, scientists are taking note of the many indications that insects exhibit consciousness-like phenomena
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Meet the rich kids who want to give away all their money
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Land without bread: The Green New Deal forsakes America’s countryside
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Long shot: The story of a Kurdish sniper
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On finding the freedom to rage against our fathers
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Jeff Bezos’s master plan - What the Amazon founder and CEO wants for his empire and himself, and what that means for the rest of us
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Romantic regimes
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The Oracle of Delphi - Chapter 1: The Center of the World
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The end of silence - The tech industry is producing a rising din, and our bodies can’t adapt
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The Biblioteca de Marvila library in Lisbon helped rejuvenate a neglected neighborhood through embracing and encouraging gaming
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An unseen victim of the college admissions scandal: The high school tennis champion aced out by a billionaire family
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Artifact - Ten key mistakes that led to the game's failure
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Telling Lies - Making a game mechanic out of scrubbing video
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The strange, uncertain fate of one of the world’s most valuable salmon habitats
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Kids? Just say no
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Religion for the nonreligious
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Ten years ago, Balloon Boy captivated the country. For the first time, we reveal the true story behind the hoax.
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Millions of the comments posted during public debates like the FCC's net neutrality repeal process have been faked by political operatives using false identities
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Peter Rahal started RxBar out of his mom’s kitchen — then sold it for $600 million. Life on the other side of the entrepreneurial fantasy.
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A walk in Hong Kong - HK protests from point of view of a tourist
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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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