The Hongerwinter: How famine under the Nazis revealed the cause of celiac disease
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Did the coronavirus kill ideology in Australia? How a government both sectarian and divisive learned (briefly) to become inclusive
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Covid-19 outbreak in Nigeria is just one of Africa’s alarming hot spots
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Hospitals in Brazil's São Paulo 'near collapse'
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Will Facebook’s oversight board actually hold the company accountable?
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Uber lays off another 3000 employees, shuts forty-five offices in coronavirus crunch
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Stripe’s first negative emissions purchases
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No, you don't have a "lizard brain": Why the Psychology 101 model of the brain is all wrong
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A South Korean soccer team has apologized for putting sex dolls in the stands to make things feel less lonely
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new.css - a classless CSS framework to write modern websites using only HTML
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After having the worst day, I was reminded of Arsenio Halls most glorious slapstick moment
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The coming disruption - Scott Galloway predicts a handful of elite universities and tech companies will soon monopolize higher education
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Imperialism is using up the resources that could fight Covid-19
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Are older voters turning away from Trump?
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Against Set Theory (2005) [pdf]
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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."
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Remdesivir distribution causes confusion, leaves some hospitals empty-handed
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Lesotho's prime minster wants to stay in power to avoid being charged for his wife’s murder
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Amazon eliminates pay raises for workers as COVID-19 toll mounts
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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
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Grading the electoral college: C for chaos
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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
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Venezuela alleges proof of Juan Guaidó's involvement in foiled coup plot, a legal invoice regarding past due payment to Silvercorp USA
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Weekly coronavirus-related chat, questions, and minor updates - week of May 11
This thread is posted weekly, and is intended as a place for more-casual discussion of the coronavirus and questions/updates that may not warrant their own dedicated topics. Tell us about what the...
This thread is posted weekly, and is intended as a place for more-casual discussion of the coronavirus and questions/updates that may not warrant their own dedicated topics. Tell us about what the situation is like where you live!
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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
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Making life cheap: Population control, herd immunity, and other anti-humanist fables
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The president’s job is to manage risk. But Donald Trump is the risk: Donald Trump was a gamble. It’s not paying off.
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Does “The Case Against Socialism” hold up? It does not. A brief look at Rand Paul’s new book
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Human breath taking its toll on The Scream, say scientists – they have discovered Edvard Munch accidentally used an impure tube of cadmium yellow
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The need for software testing: Neil Ferguson's unstable epidemiologic model
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Redditor finds unsecured surveillance cameras seemingly placed by the US government
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Non-glamorous gains: The Pennsylvania land tax experiment
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Humans coexisted with three-tonne marsupials and lizards as long as cars in ancient Australia
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New Zealand edges back to normal after quashing coronavirus in forty-nine days
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A coalition of 62 countries has backed a joint Australian and European Union push for an independent inquiry into the coronavirus outbreak ahead of a crucial World Health Assembly meeting in Geneva
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A handful of sheriffs in Washington State have said they won’t enforce the governor’s shutdown orders. But who are the state’s rural residents actually listening to?
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RIP Captain Jen Casey -RCAF Snowbirds Public Affairs Officer that perished in crash today
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Edison Mail vulnerability allowing unauthorized access to email accounts of other users
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Africa’s biggest collection of ancient human footprints has been found
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"Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" announced for CBS All Access
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Hundreds of thousands of Australians affected by the government’s robodebt scheme will receive notices from Centrelink about an upcoming class action under orders from the federal court
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Why carbon pricing is not sufficient to mitigate climate change—and how “sustainability transition policy” can help
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How Prince of Persia defeated Apple II's memory limitations | War Stories
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Q Team is content that COVIDSafe is an innocuous application that should be considered safe to download for most people
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How remastering ABC TV show 'The Stranger' after fifty-five years brought joy to its star, Ron Haddrick, in his dying days
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US Navy releases new UFO incident reports: This is about newly-released written incident reports, not the grainy videos that made headlines several weeks ago
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Coal industry will never recover after coronavirus pandemic, say experts
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I made my first pseudo podcast today, really nervous about the sound of my voice and delivery. Any tips?
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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
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Building a mouse squad against Covid-19
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