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The New York Times Book Review editors' choices for the ten best books of 2020 ~books reviews fiction nonfiction Article 1316 words 7 votes
The Coronavirus is airborne indoors. Why are we still scrubbing surfaces? ~health Article 1397 words 11 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
Harvard’s Chetty finds economic carnage for the poorest in the wealthiest ZIP codes ~finance Article 8 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
Migrant workers restricted to farms under one grower’s virus lockdown ~life work Article 1910 words 8 votes
Taking back our privacy - Profile of Moxie Marlinspike, founder of Signal ~tech privacy Article 8807 words 9 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
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.usa 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
Doesn’t feel like a recession? You should be paying more in taxes ~finance economics Article 1247 words, published Sep 3 2020 12 votes
My mother and my motherland - Jiayang Fan on the struggles of growing up as a poor immigrant, and how her desperate attempt to protect her hospital-bound mother was repurposed as Chinese propaganda ~life family Article 9051 words 5 votes
California El Dorado wildfire sparked by device to reveal baby's gender ~enviro Article 591 words 14 votes
Academics are really, really worried about their freedom ~humanities education linguistics Article 476 words 27 votes
Uber is hurting drivers like me in its legal fight in California ~transport Article 1089 words 3 votes
Can child dolls keep pedophiles from offending? One man thinks so, and he’s been manufacturing them for clients for more than ten years. ~life Article 562 words, published Jan 11 2016 24 votes
How a plan to save the power system disappeared: A federal lab found a way to modernize the grid, reduce reliance on coal, and save consumers billions. Then Trump appointees blocked it ~enviro energy.renewable Article 3530 words 24 votes
Disappearance of multiple Saudi Arabian dissidents tied to Twitter data accessed in 2015 by employees allegedly spying for the government ~tech social media privacy Article 7 votes