The Skeleton Lake - Genetic analysis of human remains found in the Himalayas has raised baffling questions about who these people were and why they were there
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The curse of the buried treasure - Two metal-detector enthusiasts discovered a Viking hoard. It was worth a fortune—but it became a nightmare.
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Taking back our privacy - Profile of Moxie Marlinspike, founder of Signal
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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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The race to redesign sugar
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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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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
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Ask Kim Kierkegaardashian: Worldly Goods vs. the Greater Good
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The ways that a cheese can go extinct, and the cheesemakers who are working to save them
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How the Simulmatics Corporation invented the future
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CyberBunker: The "bulletproof web hosting" company based in a German Cold War bunker that became a dark-web empire
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Hiroshima (1946)
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Slate Star Codex and Silicon Valley’s war against the media
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Our ghost-kitchen future
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Trump, Twitter, Facebook, and the future of online speech - The debate over censorship and Section 230 is thorny, contentious, and, above all, outdated
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The Walkman, forty years on
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A highly contagious, often lethal rabbit virus arrives in the United States
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The fight to redefine racism
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How the coronavirus could reshape architecture
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"Pursuit as Happiness", a previously unpublished short story by Ernest Hemingway
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How a raccoon became an aardvark
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Independent people - Iceland's approach to the coronavirus
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The new theatrics of remote therapy. How does treatment change when your patients are on a screen?
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Amid the coronavirus crisis, a regimen for reëntry
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How we got to Sesame Street
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April 15, 2020: A coronavirus chronicle - Twenty-four hours at the epicenter of the pandemic in New York City
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Seattle’s leaders let scientists take the lead. New York’s did not
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How Anthony Fauci became America’s doctor
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What Shakespeare actually did during the plague
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What happens when local news outlets don't exist?
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Why doctors hate their computers
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How Americans discussed democracy in the 1930's
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How to practice social distancing
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A week in Seattle, the epicenter of America’s coronavirus crisis
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South Korea is composting its way to sustainability with automated bins, rooftop farms, and underground mushroom-growing
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Dreams: The video game that lets you make video games
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The woman shaking up the diamond industry
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Was Jeanne Calment the oldest person who ever lived—or a fraud?
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Bread pudding and the comforts of queer baking
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A world without pain
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The art of dying
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The age of Instagram face - How social media, FaceTune, and plastic surgery created a single, cyborgian look
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A powerful statement of resistance from a college student on trial in Moscow
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In Iceland, a memorial ceremony for the Okjökull glacier suggests new ways to think about climate change
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Can brain science help us break bad habits?
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A photographer at the ends of the Earth - Thomas Joshua Cooper risks his life to document the world’s remotest places
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Can a machine learn to write for the New Yorker?
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A day in the life of a tree
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Four years in startups - Life in Silicon Valley during the dawn of the unicorns
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How I learned to cycle like a Dutchman
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