Logging in to get kicked out: Inside America's virtual eviction crisis ~life housing Article 3246 words 7 votes
NASA launched a rocket fifty-four years ago. Has it finally come home? ~space Article 1158 words 5 votes
What Facebook fed the baby boomers. Many Americans’ feeds are nightmares. I know because I spent weeks living inside two of them. ~tech facebook social media Article 2322 words, published Nov 24 2020 18 votes
The New York Times Book Review editors' choices for the ten best books of 2020 ~books reviews fiction nonfiction Article 1316 words 7 votes
I lived through a stupid coup. America is having one now ~society politics Article 1362 words 19 votes
The Coronavirus is airborne indoors. Why are we still scrubbing surfaces? ~health Article 1397 words 11 votes
The pandemic, the Clean Power Plan, and the Paris Agreement: US emissions drop 7% year on year due to effects of COVID-19 ~enviro climate change Article 4 votes
The curse of the buried treasure - Two metal-detector enthusiasts discovered a Viking hoard. It was worth a fortune—but it became a nightmare. ~humanities.history Article 8055 words 5 votes
The next decade could be even worse: A historian believes he has discovered iron laws that predict the rise and fall of societies. He has bad news. ~humanities.history Article 5121 words 24 votes
A look at the future of abortion from Colorado ~health Article 557 words, published Nov 5 2020 9 votes
The uneasy afterlife of our dazzling trash: Where do CDs go to die? ~enviro recycling plastics Article 1381 words 5 votes
Scientists know masks limit the coronavirus’s spread, but it’s impossible for randomized trials to prove that ~health Article 1397 words 5 votes
AI has cracked a key mathematical puzzle for understanding our world ~science Article 675 words 6 votes
Coding human data into microbes that will survive for millions of years ~science biology.micro Link 4 votes
How eugenics shaped statistics ~science mathematics statistics Article 6998 words, published Oct 28 2020 9 votes
New Zealand voters approve euthanasia but reject recreational marijuana ~news new zealand law Article 785 words 17 votes
Harvard’s Chetty finds economic carnage for the poorest in the wealthiest ZIP codes ~finance Article 8 votes
Pope Francis appoints first African-American cardinal ~humanities religion Article 747 words 12 votes
How US President Donald Trump ruined political comedy ~society politics Article 3184 words, published Oct 7 2020 10 votes
Black players continued a mentoring tradition amid a pandemic ~sports.baseball Article 1622 words 6 votes
As local news dies, a pay-for-play network rises in its place ~news usa journalism Article 3254 words, published Oct 20 2020 7 votes
Activists build facial recognition to ID cops who hide their badges ~tech Article 1542 words 15 votes
The real divide in America is between political junkies and everyone else ~society politics Article 450 words 17 votes
Migrant workers restricted to farms under one grower’s virus lockdown ~life work Article 1910 words 8 votes
America will sacrifice anything for the college experience ~life education.higher Article 2767 words 8 votes
How prepared are these seven battlegrounds for the election? A readiness report ~society politics Article 2648 words 4 votes
Taking back our privacy - Profile of Moxie Marlinspike, founder of Signal ~tech privacy Article 8807 words 9 votes
Behind in polls, Republicans see a silver lining in voter registrations ~society politics Article 1298 words 6 votes
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 ~tech facebook social media Article 7356 words 14 votes
Nobels that some felt weren't so dynamite (1999) ~humanities.history Article 1305 words, published Oct 17 1999 8 votes
Wild pigs are running rampant—and doing billions of dollars of damage each year ~enviro Article 1929 words, published Sep 19 2020 7 votes
Breonna Taylor US Grand Jury recording released ~news crime usa.ky.louisville Article 490 words 10 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
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
Trump won’t commit to ‘peaceful’ post-election transfer of power ~news usa politics Article 1056 words 9 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
The supply of disinformation will soon be infinite: Disinformation campaigns used to require a lot of human effort to be effective, but now artificial intelligence could take them to a whole new level ~tech Article 9 votes
Ultra Strips Down is a Danish children's TV show that aims to counter a social media that bombards young people with images of perfect bodies ~tv Article 1490 words 13 votes