Confessions of a former bastard cop - An essay by a former police officer on why police are like this
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CDA Section 230 explained: The important and often-misunderstood legal foundation of the social internet
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Jet stream: Is climate change causing more ‘blocking’ weather events?
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JK Rowling is dangerously wrong
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The still-vital case for liberalism in a radical age
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Eugène François Vidocq
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Black Lives Matter mass movement spreads internationally: US ruling class on the defensive
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The New York Times admits key falsehoods that drove last year’s coup in Bolivia: Falsehoods peddled by the United States, its media, and the New York Times itself
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How do we change America?
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The search for the world’s simplest animal: For centuries, scientists have obsessed over a primordial blob that can shape-shift, clone itself, and live indefinitely
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"My Immortal" as alchemical allegory
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Where does my main battery go?
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Black Death, COVID, and why we keep telling the myth of a Renaissance Golden Age and bad Middle Ages
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Bandcamp is waiving their fee on sales today, with many artists and labels having special releases, discounts, or donating their own proceeds
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"Pursuit as Happiness", a previously unpublished short story by Ernest Hemingway
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Every Jurassic Park dinosaur illustrated with modern science
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Bitcoin mining's three-body problem - An analysis of the three principal forces that drive the mining industry
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The case for reparations: We've had 250 years of slavery, 90 years of Jim Crow, 60 years of separate but equal and 35 years of racist housing policy. Without addressing this, the US can't move on
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How to actually fix America’s police
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Farming and selling gold in RuneScape is helping Venezuelans survive their country's economic crisis
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Independent people - Iceland's approach to the coronavirus
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The definitive history of Commander, Magic: The Gathering's most popular format
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Spend some time down the rabbit hole of author-as-gameshow contestant, from Herman Wouk to John le Carré
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Making a SNES game in 2020 - The story of building Yo-Yo Shuriken, including designing and developing the game itself with modern tools and manufacturing a physical cartridge release
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The injustice of this moment is not an 'aberration'
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How fitness will change forever
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Martin Luther King's challenge to the nation's social scientists
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What an economic liberal and conservative learned from their friendship
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Frames of consciousness - Can electrical impulses in the brain explain the stuff that dreams are made on?
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Wise thoughts: Summaries of classic philosophical works in words of one syllable
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Software bug in Bombardier airliner made planes turn the wrong way
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"[R]iots do not develop out of thin air. [...] in the final analysis, a riot is the language of the unheard." MLK, Jr., 1967
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From homeless refugee to chess prodigy, nine-year-old dreams of becoming youngest Grandmaster
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What it means to be liberal
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The Black American amputation epidemic
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Why humans totally freak out when they get lost
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Official Overwatch Novel: The Hero of Numbani
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The crisis within conservatism: Since the 80s, the right has increasingly relied on media bubbles, wedge issues, resistance to social change and making electoral participation harder to hold power
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The new theatrics of remote therapy. How does treatment change when your patients are on a screen?
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Four functions of markets
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Perfect Dark: The oral history of an N64 classic
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Why conservative intellectuals like Viktor Orbán
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Ahmaud Arbery was lynched: He was killed in the street by White men. That’s how lynchings work
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During Michigan's COVID-19 response, anti-social distancing protests were promoted by a small set of activists linked to the 2012-era, anti-union so-called "right-to-work" movement
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How white backlash controls American progress: Backlash dynamics are one of the defining patterns of the country’s history
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The Kentucky miner who scammed Americans by claiming he was Hitler and plotting a ‘revolt’ with ‘spaceships’
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When SimCity got serious: the story of Maxis Business Simulations and SimRefinery
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Appropriate technology
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We’re not polarized enough: Ezra Klein’s flawed diagnosis of the divisions in American politics
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Straight talk from ex-CDC for the long slog ahead
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