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Rediscovering the small web
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The unique merger that made you (and ewe, and yew)
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Democracy is the solution to vetocracy
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The muddled legacy of Oxford University's Dangerous Sports Club
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The Expanse: A Telltale Series is a love letter to fans of the franchise
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Jeff Varasano's famous New York pizza recipe
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Birth of a nation
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Leo Tolstoy on finding meaning in a meaningless world
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On progress and historical change
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Reflections on ten years past the Edward Snowden revelations
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The case of the Lego Bandit
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Driven around the bend
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Dark waters: How the adventure of a lifetime turned to tragedy
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‘This is real. We need to hide’: How the Allen mall shooting unfolded
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The last gamble of Tokyo Joe
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How to raise $89 million in small donations, and make it disappear
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How is AI impacting science?
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How two friends sparked LA’s sushi obsession — and changed the way America eats
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What was Twitter, anyway?
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The ugly truth behind “We buy ugly houses”
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“That’s a lot of me. I’m sorry.”: Talking with Julia Wertz about ambition, self-deprecation, and learning how to be earnest
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The hidden toll of military labor on noncitizen soldiers. For immigrants, linking citizenship to using up one’s body and mind exerts an additional pressure to downplay damage and push through pain.
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Is the staggeringly profitable business of scientific publishing bad for science?
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Speed trap | Google promised to create a better, faster web for media companies with a new standard called AMP. In the end, it ruined the trust publishers had in the internet giant.
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How medieval thinkers foreshadowed modern physics in investigating the character of machines, devices and forces
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2023 Library Systems Report | The advance of open source systems
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SolarWinds: The untold story of the boldest supply-chain hack ever
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Deposit franchises as natural hedges
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How Urban Company built an empire of female Indian gig workers
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The Harmonium
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Borges and $: The parable of the literary master and the coin
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There is no climate tipping point
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Welcome to America’s most elite girls boarding school. Let the hazing begin.
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Design notes on the 2023 Wikipedia redesign
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Of Sun Ray laptops, MIPS and getting root on them
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The ‘open secret’ in most US workplaces: Discrimination against moms is still rampant
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True kilts: Debunking the myths about highlanders and clan tartans
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A peer reviewed paper on walkable neighbourhoods finds that walkability improves residents' happiness
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I really didn’t want to go on the Goop cruise
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The once unthinkable revolution coming to figure skating; Same gender pairs. Is the sport ready? Some of its biggest stars think so.
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NSO group’s Pegasus spyware returns in 2022 with a trio of iOS 15 and iOS 16 zero-click exploit chains
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Taxing the superrich
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Teachers in Denmark are using apps to audit their students' moods – some experts are heavily skeptical of the approach
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I saw the face of God in a semiconductor factory
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Crooks’ mistaken bet on encrypted phones
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Dril is everyone. More specifically, he’s a guy named Paul.
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Can Burning Man pull out of its climate death spiral?
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Book review: From Oversight To Overkill
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The gambler who beat roulette
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