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The strange and curious tale of the last true hermit
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Inside Tesla’s factory, a medical clinic designed to ignore injured workers
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Inside the booming business of background music
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Authentically what?
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My father says he’s a ‘targeted individual.’ Maybe we all are
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CBD is everywhere. But is it a scam? The super-popular cannabis compound, explained
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Ten great adventure-game puzzles
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My grandfather thought he solved a cosmic mystery
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The time bandits of Southern California
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Pentagon working on tech to identify protestors with bad/non-existent opsec
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One more hour: Guillaume Calmettes’ 245.832 miles at Big Dog Backyard Ultra
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The myth of whiteness in classical sculpture
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Wisconsin’s $4.1 billion Foxconn factory boondoggle
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The big meltdown - As the Antarctic Peninsula heats up, the rules of life there are being ripped apart
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How to remember anything forever-ish
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Shelved: The Sound of Big Star’s Self-Destruction
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The subway belongs to us
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Why We Sleep - Latest book on sleep science and the impacts on our health
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Reddit and the Struggle to Detoxify the Internet
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The Digital Antiquarian: Quest for Glory III and IV
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Why are Americans still uncomfortable with atheism?
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Red Dead Redemption 2 analysis: A once-in-a-generation technological achievement
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Association of frequency of organic food consumption with cancer risk - Findings from the NutriNet-Santé prospective cohort study
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Dulwich Hamlet: The improbable tale of a tiny football club that lost its home to developers – and won it back
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It started as an online gaming prank. Then it turned deadly - the story of the "swatting" that killed Andrew Finch
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To all the Sims I've killed before - The iconic computer game tasked users with keeping digital humans alive. Instead, we set fires in their houses and removed the doors. Why?
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Civilization and its latest discontents
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Curbing hate online: What companies should do now
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The iPhone XR
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In Japan, the Kit Kat isn't just a chocolate. It's an obsession.
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The myth of whiteness in classical sculpture - Greek and Roman statues were often painted, but assumptions about race and aesthetics have suppressed this truth
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Neuralink and the brain’s magical future
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Apps installed on millions of Android phones tracked user behavior to execute a multimillion dollar ad fraud scheme
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Inside Rockstar Games' culture of crunch
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The FBI of the National Park Service
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Dissertation on First Principles of Government
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The sunburnt country
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What does Stack Overflow want to be when it grows up?
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Meet the carousing, harmonica-playing Texan who just won a Nobel for his cancer breakthrough
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About time: why western philosophy can only teach us so much
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The impact of gratitude on adolescent materialism and generosity
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The suffocation of American democracy
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One man’s (very polite) fight against media Islamophobia
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Did Uber steal Google’s intellectual property?
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How the West was digitized - The making of Rockstar Games’ Red Dead Redemption 2
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How a subprime auto lender consumed Detroit with debt and turned its courthouse into a collections agency
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American mercenaries were hired to assassinate politicians in the Middle East
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Instagram Has a Massive Harassment Problem
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The man who broke politics: Newt Gingrich turned partisan battles into bloodsport, wrecked Congress, and paved the way for Trump's rise. Now he's reveling in his achievements.
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