I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea (in medicine)
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How I survived a Chinese ‘reeducation’ camp for Uighurs
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What I learned in two years of moving government forms online
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Crying in H Mart: Sobbing near the dry goods, I ask myself, “Am I even Korean anymore if there’s no one left in my life to call and ask which brand of seaweed we used to buy?"
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I spent a year deleting my address online, then it popped up on Bing
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My family’s slave
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I lived through a stupid coup. America is having one now
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The woman who is allergic to water
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On being a philosopher with autism
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How I’ve convinced people around me to care about privacy
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I was a cable guy. I saw the worst of America.
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'I could show you stuff you wouldn’t believe:' Gravediggers speak out about horrifying conditions
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Notes on my colon cancer
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What I learned about male desire in a sex doll factory
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A doctor gave me an inept diagnosis for a neurological problem. I should know: I’m a neurologist
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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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I built a tiny home office… then I lost my job
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Living in Sri Lanka during the end of the civil war, I saw how life goes on, surrounded by death
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Why we don't like our underground house
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A desperate rescue: A father's heartbreaking attempt to save his family from a raging fire
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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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Back to the land - Alice Driver writes about her father, a potter, and his ongoing project of building his own tomb as his final creative act
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How does it feel living in a crypt? Impressions of one year later.
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We quit our jobs to build a cabin—everything went wrong
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Coming out at ninety years old... to my gay daughter
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After ten years in tech isolation, I’m now outsider to things I once had mastered
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A personal account of a fake Amazon reviewer
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How does it feel to make police shows in 2020?
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I was arrested, jailed and assaulted by a guard. My ‘crime’? Being a journalist in Trump’s America
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The most recent iteration of a widespread government imposter scam has bilked thousands of Americans out of hundreds of millions of dollars
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How Ayn Rand ruined my childhood
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I joined Parler, the right-wing echo chamber’s new favorite alt-Twitter
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Three stories of people fired after being accused of racism
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I just became a US citizen today
I took the Oath to become an American citizen today, after having lived in the U.S. since I was a little girl. I'm glad to have finally done this, but I'm wondering on what to do next. Any and all...
I took the Oath to become an American citizen today, after having lived in the U.S. since I was a little girl. I'm glad to have finally done this, but I'm wondering on what to do next.
Any and all advice would be greatly appreciated.
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My friends and I swap nudes as a form of pandemic self-care
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Before they were ‘Jackass,’ they were my suburb’s local dirtbags
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I am a mother of a trans teen and here’s what you’re getting wrong about them
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Why this woman chooses to live in a ghost town
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I was a teenage conspiracy theorist: Want to know why wild conspiracism can be so irresistible? Ask a fourteen-year-old girl
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My teenage rebellion was fundamentalist Christianity
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What it's like being a Lifeline crisis support counsellor during the coronavirus pandemic
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The day the pirates came
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Why I’m learning more with distance learning than I do in school
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How I built a $100 drive-in movie theater to hang out with friends while social distancing
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Scientists make mistakes. I made a big one
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It's been surreal to watch friends, family and the broader public thrust so suddenly into a world I have inhabited for years: figuring out how to navigate Centrelink
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Webcam hacking—The story of how I gained unauthorized Camera access on iOS and macOS
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My family owns a grocery store. The supply chain is a real problem
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What it’s like to isolate with your girlfriend and her other boyfriend
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When your barber assumes you’re a racist too
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