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Predatory lending practices: Business borrowers hurt by "confession of judgment" filings ~finance banking business.small Article 9 votes
Violence-ridden Central African Republic on road to famine: UN ~news central african republic Article 410 words 6 votes
Muslim leaders say they will boycott a proposed meeting with PM Scott Morrison after he said they should do more to combat extremism ~news australia politics Article 464 words 5 votes
The future of aging just might be in Margaritaville ~life Article 4544 words, published Nov 14 2018 9 votes
Prime Minister Scott Morrison will cut the number of migrants coming to Australia, declaring the "roads are clogged" and buses, trains and schools in Sydney and Melbourne "are full". ~news australia politics Article 603 words 4 votes
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Is science stagnant? Despite vast increases in the time and money spent on research, scientific progress is barely keeping pace with the past ~science Article 3737 words 12 votes
NASA will retire its new mega-rocket if SpaceX or Blue Origin can safely launch its own powerful rockets ~space rocketry Article 1348 words 7 votes
Students protest Zuckerberg-backed digital learning program and ask him: ‘What gives you this right?’ ~life education Article 10 votes
Counting down the days in God's waiting room: An 82-year-old writer spends his final years in a retirement home surrounded by the sick and the sorry – and finds it hard to hold back the tears. ~life Article 2635 words 6 votes
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Who’s behind that beard? Historians are using facial recognition software to identify people in Civil War photographs ~humanities.history Article 1195 words 8 votes
DeepMind’s move to transfer health unit to Google stirs data fears ~health healthcare Article 669 words 11 votes
Julian Assange has been charged under seal, US prosecutors reveal inadvertently in court filing ~news usa crime Article 896 words 27 votes
Delay, deny and deflect: How Facebook’s leaders fought through crisis ~tech facebook privacy social media Article 5353 words 16 votes
Irish protests after teenager's thong used to suggest consent in rape trial ~news ireland Article 160 words 19 votes
Is anti-gravity real? Science is about to find out ~science physics.particle Article 1254 words 10 votes
When Asian women are harassed for marrying non-Asian men ~life.women Article 2190 words, published Oct 12 2018 20 votes
Jerusalem embassy proposal delays Australia-Indonesia trade agreement ~news australia indonesia israel jerusalem Article 544 words 5 votes
Why are we still teaching reading the wrong way? ~humanities.languages Article 921 words, published Oct 26 2018 9 votes
Should the press boycott Trump? Political strategists weigh in ~news usa journalism politics.usa Article 1303 words 8 votes
Using Wi-Fi to “see” behind closed doors is easier than anyone thought ~tech privacy security Article 1031 words 12 votes
US law enforcement failed to see the threat of white nationalism. Now they don’t know how to stop it. ~misc Article 11 602 words 25 votes
One hundred years on, the scars from World War I linger on Australia's streets and in our psyche ~humanities.history Article 3827 words 6 votes
One year after Yes vote, same-sex couples celebrate - and fight anew ~lgbt Article 2099 words 7 votes
Pope vs. pope: How Francis and Benedict’s simmering conflict could split the Catholic Church ~humanities theology religion Article 5367 words 14 votes
At 63, I threw away my prized portrait of Robert E. Lee ~humanities.history Article 3501 words, published Oct 23 2018 9 votes
Losing Laura - Laura Levis died from an asthma attack just outside a Boston-area ER, after calling 911 from outside its locked doors. Her husband has been piecing together how it happened. ~health healthcare Article 11 881 words 9 votes
US Girl Scouts sue Boy Scouts over trademark as boys welcome girls ~finance business Article 418 words 11 votes
Sociogenomics is opening a new door to eugenics ~science sociology biology.socio Article 2291 words 5 votes
Australia's housing downturn is set to be the largest in nearly forty years, and if the global economy falters it could get even worse ~finance Article 617 words 3 votes