How severe is the drought gripping the American West? See for yourself ~enviro climate change Article 998 words, published Jun 11 2021 10 votes
The rise of elevated stupidity - America’s hot-take economy has created a kind of smart that is indistinguishable from stupid ~life Article 1801 words 28 votes
Can astrology make sense of cryptocurrency? Maren Altman and a million TikTok followers think so. ~finance cryptocurrency Article 1362 words 7 votes
'Cool’ roofs, cooler designs as the building industry embraces energy sustainability ~enviro energy sustainability Article 1521 words 8 votes
In leak investigation, tech giants are caught between courts and customers ~tech apple google Article 1587 words 9 votes
J. Kenji López-Alt is Seattle’s most powerful food influencer — and its most reluctant one ~food cooking Article 1824 words 10 votes
An extremely common microbe can stop the insects from spreading the virus that causes dengue fever ~health Article 1634 words 7 votes
US FBI secretly ran the An0m encrypted messaging platform, yields hundreds of arrests in global sting ~tech Article 249 words 7 votes
Seven-year-old boy charged with rape in New York. Is arresting him the answer? ~life nsfw Article 1587 words 12 votes
The long, strange life of the world’s oldest naked mole rat ~science biology Article 2933 words 8 votes
You can help rebuild Notre Dame by sponsoring a statue ~design architecture Article 293 words, published May 23 2021 5 votes
US finds no evidence of alien technology in flying objects, but can’t rule it out, either ~space Article 1297 words 13 votes
What the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre destroyed ~humanities.history Article 1997 words, published May 24 2021 12 votes
Our digital pasts weren’t supposed to be weaponized like this ~tech social media internet privacy Article 1251 words 17 votes
Masculinity attitudes across rural, suburban, and urban areas in the United States ~life education Article 6598 words 8 votes
When people around you are suddenly forced to confront race - Watching white people. The year’s dark comedy of manners. ~life Article 3822 words 17 votes
A volcanic eruption triggers earthquakes and fears of lake methane explosions in eastern Congo ~enviro Article 1787 words 5 votes
The exorcists who are battling Black Lives Matter - Across the country, right-wing Catholic clerics are weaponizing their rites to own the libs ~humanities religion Article 1910 words, published May 25 2021 10 votes
At least forty-four Fort Bragg soldiers died stateside in 2020 — several of them were homicides. Families want answers. But the Army isn’t giving any ~life nsfw Article 8363 words, published Apr 18 2021 13 votes
Belarus scrambled fighter and flagged false bomb alert to force a Ryanair plane to land then detained an opposition-minded journalist who was on board, drawing criticism from across Europe ~transport Article 33 votes
The man who drank Cholera and launched the yogurt craze. Ilya Metchnikoff laid the foundation for modern probiotics. ~science biology Link 5 votes
"What has been happening across the arts is not a recession. It is not even a depression. It is a catastrophe." ~arts art.performance Article 4777 words, published May 12 2021 20 votes
Choosing a school in a segregated city ~life education parenting Article 10 087 words, published Jun 9 2016 9 votes
Solar power's decade of falling costs is thrown into reverse ~enviro energy.renewable Article 5 votes
To the brain, a tool is just a tool, not a hand extension ~science medicine Article 2107 words 5 votes
China bans financial, payment institutions from cryptocurrency business ~finance cryptocurrency business Article 287 words 11 votes
The mainstream narrative is that Sinead O’Connor ripped up a photo of the pope on “Saturday Night Live” and derailed her life. What if the opposite were true? ~music Article 2639 words 14 votes
Charles Grodin, star of ‘Beethoven’ and ‘Heartbreak Kid,’ dies at 86 ~movies Article 628 words 4 votes
End of wind power waste? Vestas unveils blade recycling technology. ~enviro recycling energy.renewable Article 247 words 4 votes
How holograms, deepfakes, and AR are raising the dead ~tech Article 2271 words, published May 5 2021 6 votes