The West’s infernos are melting our sense of how fire works
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Interviews → Cinedicate — The Truman Show
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“I feel that the future I’ve been working towards my whole life is gone now” — What United States college students have to say about the coronavirus
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We need a new approach to teaching modern Chinese history: We have lazily repeated false narratives for too long
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Self-storage and the dream of infinite space
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Hacking Apple for 3 months - 55 vulnerabilities discovered, with $288,500 in bug bounties awarded
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What working at Stripe has been like
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Post-politics and the future of the left
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Meet the customer service reps for Disney and Airbnb who have to pay to talk to you
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Planning is GREAT: Britain was supposed to be the most prepared country in the world. Then an unexpected enemy arrived
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How to make video calls almost as good as face-to-face
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Egypt: Security forces abuse, torture LGBT people
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The operating systems that keep spacecraft running
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I cry for the mountains - A California rancher's account of the wildfires' devastating impact on his family, his cattle, and the forests
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The Digital Antiquarian: Transport Tycoon
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The school
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The race to redesign sugar
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Amazon's internal records show that it deceived the public on rising injury rates among its warehouse workers
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Wendy Carlos’s music of the spheres
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The rise of the rational do-gooders
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K: The overlooked variable that's driving the pandemic
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An investigation into the concept of "lifestyle"
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Postal Service workers quietly resist DeJoy’s changes with eye on election
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Project Gemini: Stripped back web // souped up Gopher internet protocol
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A deep dive into K-pop
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Zombies (philosophy)
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Philosophy’s systemic racism
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Palm oil labor abuses linked to world’s top brands, banks
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Viral hate, election interference, and hacked accounts: Inside the tech industry’s decades-long failure to reckon with risk
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The Digital Antiquarian: X-Com
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The possibility of life without money
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2020 Bundles - An overview of bundle-based offerings from major tech companies
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The elusive peril of space junk - Millions of human artifacts circle the Earth. Can we clean them up before they cause a disaster?
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Fake authenticity
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Nikola: How to parlay an ocean of lies into a partnership with the largest auto OEM in America
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We don’t know our potential
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Why we don't like our underground house
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Emily Ratajkowski - Owning my image
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When you browse Instagram and find former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott's passport number
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Web history - Chapter 4: Search
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What's wrong with social science and how to fix it: Reflections after reading 2578 papers
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On the rudeness of mobs
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Climate change will force a new American migration - Life is becoming increasingly untenable in the hardest-hit areas, which could cause millions of people to relocate
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6,600-word internal memo from a fired Facebook data scientist details how the social network knew leaders of countries around the world were using the site to manipulate voters — and failed to act
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App Store review guidelines on streaming games
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They know how to prevent megafires. Why won’t anybody listen?
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In the jungle: Inside the long, hidden genealogy of ‘The Lion Sleeps Tonight’
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Analysis of UK charity websites finds that tracking is prevalent, with almost all of the most popular charities including trackers for advertising or data brokers and failing to comply with GDPR/PECR
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The Bully's Pulpit - On the elementary structure of domination
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How Big Oil misled the public into believing plastic would be recycled
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