WHO warns millions of children at risk as Covid-19 pandemic disrupts routine vaccinations ~health Article 492 words 7 votes
On the Moon, astronaut pee will be a hot commodity. Urine can be used for landing pads, gardens, and drinking water. But will there be enough to go around? ~space Article 625 words 7 votes
The corruption of the Republican Party: The modern GOP is best understood as an insurgency that carried the seeds of its own corruption from the start ~society politics Article 2260 words, published Dec 14 2018 10 votes
Pandemic escape: Volunteers transcribe Sally Ride’s papers, Rosa Parks’s recipes, Walt Whitman’s poems ~humanities.history Article 1239 words 7 votes
How the pandemic has silenced the USA's biggest gubernatorial election ~society politics Article 1960 words 7 votes
Interview with Musk on his Twitter usage, selling off his possessions, and the historic upcoming launch ~tech Article 7 votes
China drops word 'peaceful' in latest push for Taiwan 'reunification' ~news china taiwan politics Article 375 words 10 votes
EU ambassador says Australia played 'bad cop' to Europe's 'good cop' to get coronavirus motion up ~society politics Article 640 words 5 votes
The system failed the test of Trump: The story of the recent years is of institutions that were unable to constrain the presidency ~society politics Article 557 words 8 votes
America’s deadly obsession with intellectual property: Privatizing life-saving technology like vaccines and clean energy is bad both for the coronavirus and the climate crisis ~tech Article 1408 words 9 votes
How white backlash controls American progress: Backlash dynamics are one of the defining patterns of the country’s history ~humanities.history Article 3263 words 8 votes
CDC is conflating viral and antibody tests. Pennsylvania, Georgia, Texas, and other states are doing the same ~health Article 542 words 10 votes
The Kentucky miner who scammed Americans by claiming he was Hitler and plotting a ‘revolt’ with ‘spaceships’ ~humanities.history Article 4106 words 9 votes
Saudi Arabia, other gulf states reimpose strict measures after coronavirus cases spike during Ramadan ~health Article 970 words 6 votes
Stabbing attack at North York massage parlour was ‘incel’ terrorism, police say ~life.men Article 1100 words 19 votes
Men quitting masturbation: "Porn addiction" support groups reinforce damaging gender stereotypes ~life Article 2437 words 25 votes
We’re not polarized enough: Ezra Klein’s flawed diagnosis of the divisions in American politics ~books reviews Article 3854 words 5 votes
What will it take to prevent a new Great Depression in the USA? Around $10,000,000,000,000 (ten trillion dollars) ~finance economics Article 505 words 9 votes
Two churches reclose after faith leaders and congregants get coronavirus ~health Article 901 words 10 votes
Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine shows encouraging early results ~health medicine Article 1205 words 5 votes
Canada’s nursing home crisis: Eighty-one percent of coronavirus deaths are in long-term care facilities ~health healthcare Article 1793 words 3 votes
Merkel and Macron make a stunning coronavirus proposal on EU pandemic fund ~finance economics.macro Article 10 votes
US President Donald Trump says he is taking hydroxychloroquine to protect against coronavirus, dismissing safety concerns ~health medicine Article 332 words 21 votes
Did the coronavirus kill ideology in Australia? How a government both sectarian and divisive learned (briefly) to become inclusive ~society politics Article 602 words 5 votes
Covid-19 outbreak in Nigeria is just one of Africa’s alarming hot spots ~health Article 592 words 7 votes
Will Facebook’s oversight board actually hold the company accountable? ~tech facebook social media Article 581 words 5 votes
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
Lesotho's prime minster wants to stay in power to avoid being charged for his wife’s murder ~society politics Article 689 words 4 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 ~science medicine biology Article 601 words 4 votes
The prophecies of Q: American conspiracy theories are entering a dangerous new phase ~society politics Article 6 votes