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Wild pigs are running rampant—and doing billions of dollars of damage each year ~enviro Article 1929 words, published Sep 19 2020 7 votes
Joe Biden can end the drama on election night. All he has to do is win Texas. ~news usa.tx politics.usa Article 1873 words 13 votes
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St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Famer Bob Gibson dies at 84 after bout with cancer ~sports.baseball Article 1275 words 6 votes
Breonna Taylor US Grand Jury recording released ~news crime usa.ky.louisville Article 490 words 10 votes
Wendy Carlos’s music of the spheres ~music electronic Article 4313 words, published Sep 10 2020 5 votes
German startup Rocket Factory Augsburg has selected the Norwegian launch facility Andøya Spaceport for a 2022 maiden flight of the company's RFA One vehicle ~space satellites Article 514 words 6 votes
The NHL's bubble playoffs conclude without a single COVID case ~sports.hockey Article 862 words 15 votes
What Jim Crow taught the Nazis: In the 1930s, the Nazi regime were fascinated by the global leader in codified race law — the United States ~humanities.history Article 1541 words, published Oct 3 2017 9 votes
Nokia has clinched a deal with Britain's biggest mobile operator BT to supply 5G radio equipment – coming months after UK said it would ban Huawei from 5G networks ~tech Article 281 words 7 votes
Living in Sri Lanka during the end of the civil war, I saw how life goes on, surrounded by death ~life Article 691 words 12 votes
Gas companies are abandoning their wells, leaving them to leak methane forever ~enviro climate change pollution Article 19 votes
Hercule Poirot turns 100: The strange case of the Belgian detective ~books Article 890 words 11 votes
Sweden, Finland and Estonia to look at new evidence on MS Estonia sinking in 1994 – ferry sank with the loss of 852 lives, in one of Europe's worst peacetime maritime disasters ~transport Article 276 words 7 votes
Inside the Icelandic facility where Bitcoin is mined—cryptocurrency mining now uses more of the Nordic island nation's electricity than its homes ~enviro energy Article 580 words, published Nov 3 2019 7 votes
Nobel Prizes to go ahead amid pandemic – less razzmatazz, with this year's winners missing out on the swanky gala in Stockholm surrounded by royalty and Sweden's glitterati ~science Article 401 words 7 votes
United to be first US airline to offer coronavirus tests for passengers ~transport Article 672 words 7 votes
With silver diamine fluoride, some dentists are obliterating cavities with a few brushstrokes ~health medicine Article 1541 words, published Sep 14 2020 8 votes
Trump won’t commit to ‘peaceful’ post-election transfer of power ~news usa politics.usa Article 1056 words 9 votes
Judith Butler on the culture wars, JK Rowling and living in “anti-intellectual times” ~lgbt Article 2291 words 5 votes
Norway will finance two-thirds of a large-scale project to capture and store carbon dioxide – carbon capture has long been highlighted as a way to reduce CO2 emissions ~enviro climate change Article 679 words 8 votes
Why are we in the West so weird? A theory ~humanities.history Article 1884 words, published Sep 12 2020 6 votes
The elusive peril of space junk - Millions of human artifacts circle the Earth. Can we clean them up before they cause a disaster? ~space satellites Article 9380 words 7 votes
The NASA team that kills spacecraft ~space spaceflight.scientific Article 627 words, published Sep 12 2017 6 votes