Stellaris Recommends: Sci-fi book recommendations from the team behind Paradox's grand-strategy-in-space game, including notes on prominent tropes and what each book does well.
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Denmark completes contentious fence along German border – the fence is meant to prevent wild boar from spreading swine fever to Denmark's lucrative pork industry
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Why do we tolerate Saudi money in tech?
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A system designed to allow a disabled musician to play the guitar with one hand (and a foot)
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Riot Games will pay at least $10 million to settle gender discrimination suit, split between all female employees who worked there in the last five years
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Nobel prize for literature hit by fresh round of resignations – two members of the external committee set up to oversee reforms quit on Monday
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The citizen scientist who finds killers from her couch: How CeCe Moore is using her genetic knowledge to expose murderers
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A slower speed of light
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Norwegian convicted of spying in Moscow says he was wrong to trust an intelligence officer who recruited him to pass on payment for secrets about Russia's submarine fleet
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Abigail Williams - I Will Depart (2019)
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Some squirrel photography
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How to build a forest
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The trouble with the video game industry
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Why TikTok is now the number one social media app
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Only two road traffic deaths per 100,000 inhabitants were reported in Norway in 2019, making it the best-performing country for road safety
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How a meteorite ruined an Alabama woman's afternoon sixty-five years ago
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In a major ethical leap for the tech world, Chinese start-ups have built algorithms that the government uses to track [Uighurs] members of a largely Muslim minority group
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Vulfpeck - Lost My Treble Long Ago (2018)
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All you need to know about UEFA Euro 2020 Group B contenders Denmark, Finland, Belgium and Russia
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A dialect dissection of Britney Spears
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Adam Sandler’s everlasting shtick
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Snarky Puppy - NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert (2019)
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Every way to cook a tomato | Bon Appétit
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Artificial loneliness - Appreciating the rare moments of emptiness inside the busy worlds of modern gaming
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Virgil Griffith, research scientist at the Ethereum Foundation, has been arrested for advising North Korea on how to use cryptocurrency to evade sanctions
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Ambitious Freddie Ljungberg has a chance to keep it in the Arsenal family, and would relish taking the job on a permanent basis
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How Google is building a browser monopoly
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Man armed with Narwhal tusk confronts terrorist on London Bridge
@theamycoop: A guy who was with us at Fishmongers Hall took a 5' narwhale tusk from the wall and went out to confront the attacker. You can see him standing over the man (with what looks like a white pole) in the video.
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Why selection bias is the most powerful force in education
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