The Pyramids of Giza - Chapter 1: The Charlatan and the Gossip ~humanities.history Article 4598 words, published Jan 11 2019 4 votes
Battle of the ax men: Who really built the first electric rock 'n' roll guitar? ~music Article 4165 words 3 votes
Who owns the internet? (What Big Tech’s monopoly powers mean for our culture.) ~tech internet Article 3518 words 11 votes
The JRPG Startup Cost - An analysis of how long it takes to reach various gameplay milestones in classic JRPGs ~games Article 5795 words, published Dec 23 2018 10 votes
The world's oldest person: Guinness, 122-year-old Jeanne Calment and a Russian conspiracy theory ~science Article 3183 words 9 votes
How cartographers for the US Military inadvertently created a house of horrors in South Africa ~design Article 5229 words, published Jan 9 2019 15 votes
Is trade in turmoil a change for justice? The global free trade system is being battered like never before. Can any good come of it? ~misc Link 7 votes
Over a million IP addresses geolocate to a house in Pretoria, South Africa, causing people (and police) to show up regularly in search of criminals, stolen phones, and more ~tech internet Article 5226 words 9 votes
The noisy dispute over the meaning of populism is more than just an academic squabble – it’s a crucial argument about what we expect from democracy ~misc politics Article 12 votes
How "At the Gates" took seven years of my life – and nearly the rest ~games Article 4930 words 10 votes
The egg thief - For decades, Jeffrey Lendrum has been snatching unhatched raptors and selling them, investigators believe, to wealthy Middle Eastern falconers ~life Article 7049 words 8 votes
The world’s oldest woman was 122 when she died. A researcher believes that her daughter assumed her identity in the 1930s to avoid inheritance taxes. ~science Article 1103 words 28 votes
The infiltrator: A former Marine working for the private security firm TigerSwan infiltrated an array of anti-Dakota Access pipeline groups at Standing Rock and beyond ~enviro Article 7548 words, published Dec 30 2018 12 votes
Ten personal finance lessons for technology professionals ~finance Article 9329 words, published Dec 31 2018 8 votes
Elizabeth Wurtzel on discovering the truth about her parents ~life Article 4687 words, published Dec 26 2018 4 votes
Leo Tolstoy on finding meaning in a meaningless world ~books Article 3918 words, published Jun 3 2014 9 votes
YouTube breeds sociopaths and monsters. Not through audience’s demands but how the platform itself is designed. ~tech social media Article 6946 words, published Jan 22 2018 24 votes
As a grocery chain is dismantled, investors recover their money. Worker pensions are short millions. ~finance business Article 3482 words 12 votes
The other side of paradise: How I left a Buddhist retreat in handcuffs ~health.mental Article 4102 words, published Dec 26 2018 9 votes
How Mark Burnett resurrected Donald Trump as an icon of American success ~tv Article 12 383 words 5 votes
‘I feel invisible’: Native Americans languish in public schools ~life education Article 4250 words 9 votes
Take script, add snow - The psychology behind America’s obsession with Hallmark Christmas movies ~movies Article 3299 words 7 votes
Inside China's audacious global propaganda campaign ~news china journalism Article 6028 words, published Dec 7 2018 10 votes
Steven Pinker’s ideas are fatally flawed ~humanities Article 4831 words, published May 21 2018 14 votes
What is glitter? A strange journey to the glitter factory ~finance business Article 3073 words 15 votes
Two intricate calligraphy pages from the sixteenth-century manuscript “Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta” have been decoded for the first time ~humanities.history Article 3433 words 12 votes
The great NFL heist: How Fox paid for and changed football forever ~sports.american_football Article 16 616 words, published Dec 13 2018 5 votes
Johnson & Johnson knew for decades that asbestos lurked in its baby powder ~health Article 3038 words, published Dec 14 2018 11 votes
Prime and punishment: Dirty dealing in the $175 billion Amazon Marketplace ~tech amazon.marketplace Article 6640 words 10 votes
Scientists think Alabama's sewage problem has caused a tropical parasite. The state has done little about it. ~health Article 3757 words 6 votes