Making life cheap: Population control, herd immunity, and other anti-humanist fables ~enviro climate change Article 5691 words 6 votes
Does “The Case Against Socialism” hold up? It does not. A brief look at Rand Paul’s new book. ~books reviews Article 16 528 words 9 votes
How New York suffered nearly ten times the number of deaths as California ~health Article 11 354 words 6 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
There & Back Again, a summary of Terraria: Journey's End ~games Article 11 121 words, published Apr 26 2020 11 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
The great 5G conspiracy - Part of a series on conspiracy thinking in America ~humanities Article 5662 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
Elisabeth Bik quit her job to spot errors in research papers — and has become the public face of image sleuthing ~science biology.micro Article 3590 words 9 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
Erin Bromage, PHD examines the risks of coronavirus exposure in different environments and settings ~health Article 3097 words, published May 6 2020 6 votes
Experts knew a pandemic was coming. Here’s what they’re worried about next. ~enviro Article 173 words 16 votes
Legal survey finds that US police are granted immunity at a high rate in use of force cases ~news usa Article 4263 words 12 votes
The people who are keeping the internet running during COVID and how they're doing it ~tech internet Article 4171 words 11 votes
The controversial experiments and Wuhan lab accused by some of starting the coronavirus pandemic ~health Article 3661 words, published Apr 27 2020 4 votes
What happens next? COVID-19 futures, explained with playable simulations ~health Article 4482 words 6 votes
Exam anxiety: How remote test-proctoring is creeping students out ~tech privacy Article 3342 words 9 votes
April 15, 2020: A coronavirus chronicle - Twenty-four hours at the epicenter of the pandemic in New York City ~health Article 3 votes
Seattle’s leaders let scientists take the lead. New York’s did not ~health Article 6747 words 15 votes
Experiences from conducting an independent research project on coronavirus in Japan in late March, when the public consensus was that it was under control ~health Article 10 893 words 6 votes
A well-known attorney helped land a $2 billion settlement for Gulf Coast seafood-industry workers. But who was he really representing? ~finance Article 7271 words 5 votes
The devastating decline of Lee Holloway, one of the co-founders of Cloudflare ~tech Article 7186 words 24 votes
Finally we may have a path to the fundamental theory of physics… and it’s beautiful ~science physics Article 20 152 words 28 votes