Marriott admits hackers stole data on 500 million guests; passports and credit card info included ~tech privacy security.cyber Article 585 words 21 votes
George H.W. Bush, 41st president of the United States, dies at 94 ~news usa politics.usa Article 6117 words 36 votes
Monarch butterfly populations in the west are down an order of magnitude from last year ~enviro Article 588 words 15 votes
Sheryl Sandberg asked Facebook staff to research George Soros ~tech facebook social media Article 661 words 12 votes
What should America do with its empty church buildings? ~humanities religion Article 1450 words, published Nov 25 2018 13 votes
A business with no end - Where does this strange empire start or stop? ~finance business Article 5258 words 8 votes
Middle-class San Francisco tenants are moving into dorms for reasonable rent ~life housing.student education.higher housing.affordable Article 1848 words, published Mar 4 2018 9 votes
Black box data reveals pilots’ struggle to regain control of doomed jet ~transport Article 1540 words 13 votes
Return of African artifacts sets a tricky precedent for Europe’s museums ~humanities.history Article 1317 words 5 votes
A break in the quest for the quantum speed limit ~science physics.quantum Article 1868 words, published Nov 23 2018 4 votes
Tiny books fit in one hand. Will they change the way we read? ~books Article 1423 words, published Oct 29 2018 8 votes
You can’t talk about right-wing populism without talking about urban planning ~design urban planning Article 579 words, published Nov 19 2018 12 votes
Natalie Wynn: The stylish socialist who is trying to save YouTube from alt-right domination ~tech social media Article 32 votes
Inside the Flat Earth Conference, where the world’s oldest conspiracy theory is hot again ~life Article 2981 words, published Nov 18 2018 9 votes
At Yale, we conducted an experiment to turn conservatives into liberals. The results say a lot about our political divisions. ~science psychology Article 1221 words 34 votes
How to handle difficult conversations at Thanksgiving ~life relationships family Article 1241 words 8 votes
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
We thought the Incas couldn’t write. These knots change everything. ~humanities.languages Article 2661 words 8 votes
Facebook investors call on Mark Zuckerberg to resign as chairman following damaging report ~tech facebook social media Article 195 words 18 votes
The week in energy: Not all oil is equal ~enviro climate change plastics pollution energy Article 1756 words 7 votes
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
A startup company says it will give people free genome reports if they’re willing to answer detailed questions about their health, drinking habits, and more ~health medicine Article 331 words 5 votes
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