How disappearance became a global weapon of psychological control, fifty years on from Chile’s US-backed coup
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The pirate preservationists - a long history
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Best compact cameras in 2023
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‘Something happened, somehow something got mixed up’: the at-home DNA test that changed two families for ever
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What’s going on with these viral, right-wing country music hits?
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The dead man’s gambit: The crash of Ethiopian Airlines flight 961
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Tempest over Texas: The crash of Braniff International Airways flight 352
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Why we didn’t get a malaria vaccine sooner
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Chaos, comedy, and ‘crying rooms’: Inside Jimmy Fallon’s ‘Tonight Show’
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The decomposition of Rotten Tomatoes: The most overrated metric in movies is erratic, reductive, and easily hacked — and yet has Hollywood in its grip
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Sophie de Oliveira Barata on The Alternative Limb Project and the nexus of art and medicine
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The misogyny myth
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Jordan Henderson: I strongly believe that me playing in Saudi Arabia is a positive thing (interview with David Ornstein and Adam Crafton of The Athletic)
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We do not know the population of every country in the world for the past two thousand years
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Here's why automaticity is real actually
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A wrong turn in fog off the California coast led to the largest peacetime disaster in American naval history
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As a young industrial designer, Patricia Moore undertook a radical experiment in aging. Her discoveries reshaped the built world.
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Direct solar power: Off-grid without batteries
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After two decades the dominance of Google Search comes into question
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The rediscovery of circadian rhythms
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The Wheel of Time reunites us with old friends in season 2 premiere
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Driverless cars may already be safer than human drivers
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How much dietary fat do we really need?
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Buried under the ice
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The mystery of the Bloomfield bridge
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How US labor movement can win at the bargaining table
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Writing for Friends was no dream job
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Bobbi Gibb: The Boston Marathon pioneer who raced a lie that women couldn't run marathons
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What is narcissism? Science confronts a widely misunderstood phenomenon
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How Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Mark Zuckerberg, and Marc Andreessen—four billionaire techno-oligarchs—are creating an alternate, autocratic reality
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‘People are like, wow!’: The man trying to make condoms sexy
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Ten open challenges/research directions in LLM research
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What does any of this have to do with physics?
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US Federal Trade Commission chair Lina Khan Q&A: Hollywood 'red flags', on her WGA meetings, AI and why the agency's keeping an eye on entertainment
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Cruelty of chance: The Cerritos mid-air collision and the crash of Aeroméxico flight 498
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How a Harvard professor became the world’s leading alien hunter
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New book argues stock buybacks are a mode of predatory value extraction leading to income inequity, employment instability, productive fragility
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Interview: Tom Moulton, father of the Disco Mix (1976)
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Learning how to garden a forest - discussion of methods to prevent wildfire
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Josh Cook on the uses and misuses of judgement about literary quality and reflections about the process of suggesting books
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Ads don’t work that way (2014)
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Why Bill Watterson vanished
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Exposed: Slum photography was at the heart of progressive campaigns against urban poverty. And it was a weapon against poor people.
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Both parents agree: The child is being harmed. Which one will the US court believe?
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How universal basic income became the pessimist’s utopia
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The fight over what’s real (and what’s not) on dissociative identity disorder TikTok
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Antonov’s curse: The crash of Sepahan Airlines flight 5915 and the story of the An-140
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How the car came to Los Angeles
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Götterdämmerung in the East - The Eastern Front in WWII after Stalingrad
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What happens to all the stuff we return?
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