The coming disruption - Scott Galloway predicts a handful of elite universities and tech companies will soon monopolize higher education ~humanities education.higher Article 2536 words, published May 11 2020 6 votes
America’s largest media labor union launches historic advocacy campaign to save industry: "having robust news operations at the local and state level is fundamentally good for democratic stability." ~news journalism usa Article 649 words 12 votes
What we know about your chances of catching the virus outdoors: Pandemic life is safer outdoors, in part, because even a light wind will quickly dilute the virus ~health Article 216 words 8 votes
Here’s what an antitrust case against Google might look like: Two DOJ veterans lay out a roadmap for cracking down on the company’s digital advertising juggernaut ~tech google Article 717 words 4 votes
A military contractors’ report circulating on Capitol Hill claims to have evidence that COVID-19 escaped from a Chinese lab. It’s filled with information that’s just plain wrong. ~health Article 2259 words 5 votes
Making life cheap: Population control, herd immunity, and other anti-humanist fables ~enviro climate change Article 5691 words 6 votes
The need for software testing: Neil Ferguson's unstable epidemiologic model ~tech Article 319 words 10 votes
New Zealand edges back to normal after quashing coronavirus in forty-nine days ~health Article 1463 words 26 votes
At first, the disappearance of the wife of one of Norway's richest people seemed to be an abduction – but then suspicion turned on the husband ~news norway.oslo crime Article 7 votes
The GOP is the problem. Is ‘human identity politics’ the solution? (Book review of Ezra Klein’s 'Why We’re Polarized') ~books reviews Article 3814 words 9 votes
Mouse embryos that are four per cent human are step towards spare organs ~health medicine Article 601 words 4 votes
The coronavirus is making us all camgirls: For millions of newly remote workers, doing your job now involves looking the part, figuring out your angles, and performing for the camera ~life work.remote Link 7 votes
The board game that turns feminism into a joke: I played Ms. Monopoly so that you don’t have to ~games.tabletop Article 1237 words 12 votes
US State Department Inspector General fired after investigating Secretary of State Mike Pompeo; Democrats decry ‘dangerous pattern of retaliation’ ~news usa politics.usa Article 9 votes
I was a teenage conspiracy theorist: Want to know why wild conspiracism can be so irresistible? Ask a fourteen-year-old girl ~life Article 3974 words 11 votes
Pandemic bills are so big that only money-printing can pay them ~finance economics.macro Article 6 votes
IKEA's shopping malls arm Ingka Centres plans US entry in major play ~finance business Article 778 words 6 votes
Nearly 40% of Icelanders are using a covid contact-tracing app—and it hasn’t helped much ~health Article 429 words 10 votes
The great 5G conspiracy - Part of a series on conspiracy thinking in America ~humanities Article 5662 words 6 votes
As coronavirus overruns Russia, doctors are dying on the front lines ~health healthcare Article 566 words 6 votes
The confessions of Marcus "MalwareTech" Hutchins, the hacker who stopped WannaCry and was arrested by the FBI in 2017 ~tech internet security.cyber Article 13 662 words 33 votes
Two suspects charged with murder in Ahmaud Arbery killing ~news crime usa.ga.brunswick Article 76 words 12 votes
US tribal nations face most severe crisis in decades as the coronavirus closes casinos ~finance business Article 517 words 3 votes
Doctors express glimmers of hope as they try out new approaches against coronavirus ~health healthcare Article 1995 words 5 votes
An Oxford professor, an evangelical collector, and a missing gospel of Mark: A scholar claimed that he discovered a first-century gospel fragment, now faces allegations of theft, cover-up, and fraud ~humanities.history Article 8361 words 11 votes
Restaurant owners say Uber Eats and Deliveroo are still charging unsustainable commissions on delivery, with many planning to cut the cord on food delivery platforms ~food restaurants Article 719 words 10 votes
Facebook is helping to set up a new pro-tech US advocacy group ~tech social media facebook Article 1180 words 6 votes
Via $8.9 million fleet surveillance contract, US Space Force to get deeper insight into inner workings of SpaceX commercial launches ~space spaceflight.commercial Article 423 words, published May 9 2020 4 votes
Russia’s Covid death toll could be seventy per cent higher than official figure ~health Article 692 words 11 votes
Famine is a choice. One billion people are now food-insecure. But starvation is not an inevitability ~food Article 1279 words 5 votes
Welcome to the age of privacy nihilism ~tech privacy internet Article 2873 words, published Aug 23 2018 13 votes
Children growing up after this crisis will use far more oral language after it ends ~humanities.languages Article 605 words 10 votes
World of Warcraft's game director Ion Hazzikostas on how the game's culture has evolved with the internet ~games Article 707 words 6 votes
COVID has badly affected wealthy nations, what will it do to poor ones and how can they stop it with their limited means? ~health Article 1572 words 5 votes