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How the US betrayed the Marshall Islands, kindling the next nuclear disaster ~enviro climate change Article 5621 words 9 votes
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To understand what the Golden State is compared to what it was, one solitary hiker follows the trail of the first overland Spanish expedition into California 250 years later ~hobbies Article 9242 words 6 votes
“Affordances” - A new science-fiction short story by Cory Doctorow about algorithmic bias ~books science fiction short stories Article 5858 words, published Oct 26 2019 7 votes
The Project Jengo saga: How Cloudflare stood up to a patent troll – and won ~tech Article 3261 words 6 votes
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Alcohol breath tests, a linchpin of the criminal justice system, are often unreliable ~misc Article 5208 words 10 votes
Canada's Magdalen Islands have warmed 2.3 degrees Celsius since the late 19th century, twice the global average ~enviro climate change Article 3176 words 4 votes
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Diagnosing the steel failure in the SF Transit Center ~engineering Article 3522 words, published Oct 25 2019 8 votes
Atlantic Council has published an update to their 2016 Global Risks 2035 report, analyzing geopolitical and technological trends and their potential impacts on the future ~news usa china politics Article 4820 words 7 votes
Untitled Goose Game is a funny video game about an asshole goose. Its power is in its simplicity. ~games Article 4283 words, published Oct 10 2019 7 votes
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The Washington Post is the latest mainstream media outlet to dedicate resources to covering games. Past efforts at other publications have failed—why is this time going to be different? ~games Article 6223 words, published Oct 25 2019 10 votes
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Certbot usability case study: Making it easier to get HTTPS certificates ~comp security Article 6227 words 12 votes
Economists are now admitting that they were wrong about globalization ~finance economics Article 3081 words, published Oct 22 2019 15 votes
De-branding my body. The former sex slaves transforming their tattoos ~life Article 3695 words 12 votes
Frank Gehry's most ambitious project: Restoring the Los Angeles River ~design urban planning Article 3024 words 6 votes
Iron: From mythical to mundane ~humanities.history Article 3943 words, published Oct 22 2019 17 votes
My own private Iceland—tourism has never been “authentic” ~travel Article 6899 words, published Oct 21 2019 10 votes
MIT Media Lab scientist claimed success for a deployment of food computers to a Syrian refugee camp in Jordan, but the computers never worked ~science Link 9 votes
Inside /r/Relationships, the unbearably human corner of Reddit ~tech social media Article 4678 words 10 votes
Are liberal arts colleges doomed? The cautionary tale of Hampshire College and the broken business model of American higher education ~humanities education.higher Article 4733 words 8 votes
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Olympic destroyer - The untold story of the 2018 Olympics cyberattack ~tech security.cyber Article 7600 words 6 votes
The secret mission to seize Nazi map data: How a covert US Army intelligence unit canvassed war-torn Europe, capturing intelligence with incalculable strategic value ~humanities.history Article 4641 words 9 votes
Advice for curating, refining, and developing a Spotify playlist that people will actually listen to and follow over time ~music Article 3620 words, published Oct 17 2019 4 votes
Fortnite is the future, but probably not for the reasons you think ~games Article 5179 words 10 votes
Financial Bubbles are the Gnostic Heresy: The Voegelin-Minsky Synthesis ~finance Article 11 940 words, published Oct 18 2019 5 votes
Designing River City Girls' approachable, challenging brawling ~games Article 3088 words, published Oct 11 2019 4 votes
Google Pixel 4 and 4XL review: More than the sum of its sensors ~tech google android Article 4293 words 5 votes