The Webb Space Telescope will rewrite cosmic history. If it works.
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Twenty years ago, Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings changed the future of Hollywood
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Ordering movie credits with graph theory
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The great offline - The concept of “offline” is built on the earlier concept of “wilderness,” inheriting its flaws and hazards
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Inside the fall of Kabul: An on-the-ground account
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The secondary market in gift cards
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The rise and fall of rationality in language
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Pegasus vs. Predator - Dissident’s doubly-infected iPhone reveals Cytrox mercenary spyware
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Fixing a tiny corner of the supply chain
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China’s troll king: How a tabloid editor became the voice of Chinese nationalism
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Hiding images in plain sight: the physics of magic windows
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The wind farms angering renewable energy fans
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The battle for Bungie's soul: Inside the studio's struggle for a better work culture
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On progress and historical change
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Grades as communication
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Taming the Beast: The Inner Battle for Control
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Here's why movie dialogue has gotten more difficult to understand (and three ways to fix it)
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The mythlogy of work and other thoughts on the growing anti-work movement
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Crime prediction software promised to be free of biases. New data shows it perpetuates them.
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You are the product
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Why insects are more sensitive than they seem
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Let me tell you why only a dumbass would get into NFT games
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He declined the FBI’s offer to become an informant. Then his life was ruined.
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Promethean beasts - Far from being hardwired to flee fire, some animals use it to their own ends, helping us understand our own pyrocognition
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The invisible wall - Tired of migrants arriving from Africa, the EU has created a shadow immigration system that captures, and sends them to brutal Libyan detention centers run by militias
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Something in the Air - an ode to radio
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"Narrative equity" in game design
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Real-time alerting system for COVID-19 and other stress events using wearable data
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The inside story of the Pfizer vaccine: A 'once-in-an-epoch windfall'
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Mel Brooks writes it all down - The comedian will publish his memoirs at the age of ninety-five, and is at work on “History of the World, Part II”
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Good news on climate change
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What free, ad-supported Uber rides might look like. Mockups, economics, and analysis.
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‘Am I even fit to be a mom?’ Diaper need is an invisible part of poverty in America
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Stephen Sondheim, titan of the American musical, is dead at 91
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Pompeii still has buried secrets - The first major excavations in decades shed light on how ordinary citizens shopped and snacked—and where slaves slept
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This webcomic made it okay to be sad online. Then its artist vanished.
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No artist has explored the contradictions of humanity as sympathetically and critically as the Japanese animation legend Hayao Miyazaki
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The best espresso machines in 2021
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Upgrading the soldered-on RAM of a Dell XPS13 7390
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Our post-privacy world
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Why US healthcare workers are quitting in droves: About one in five have left medicine since the pandemic started
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Know the challenger: Ian Nepomniachtchi
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Ten tips for real-life socializing (for the internet-poisoned brain)
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IFTTT / Reddit alerts filling up with porn spam? Here’s what to do
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The CIA is trying to recruit Gen Z—and doesn’t care if they’re all over social media
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Meet the Swedish artist who hooked British rock royalty on her revolutionary crochet
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To break a book: Bibliophiles as book enemies
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The ingenious ancient technology concealed in the shallows
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David Graeber’s Possible Worlds
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Everything we know about the Astroworld tragedy so far
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