How the 1619 Project took over 2020 in the US
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Why Facebook can't fix itself - The platform is overrun with hate speech and disinformation, but the company's strategy seems focused on managing perception of the problem instead of addressing it
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Despite brute-forcing its way to dominance in many other industries, Amazon is having difficulty getting a foothold in games
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Pippi and the Moomins - The antics in postwar Nordic children’s books left propaganda and prudery behind. We need this madcap spirit more than ever
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The (mostly) true story of Vanilla Ice, hip-hop, and the American Dream
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A libertarian walks into a bear: The utopian plot to liberate an American town (and some bears)
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The paradox of suspense
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How to make biomass energy sustainable again: Coppicing, pollarding, and hedgerows
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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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