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The end of the American Chinatown - How renewed interest in downtown living is threatening neighborhoods that long provided a first stop for new immigrants
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Let children get bored again
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White-tailed spiders may be Australia's most misunderstood animals, caught in a tangled web of myth and hysteria. We take a closer look.
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What does any of this have to do with physics?
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A grand plan to clean the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
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Slack says it's filed to go public, using a direct listing instead of a traditional IPO
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Maroon 5’s Super Bowl halftime show was just as mind-numbingly dull as you feared
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‘A nightmare’: Inside the Federal jail in Brooklyn with little heat or electricity
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How a freak accident happens
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In the era of spellcheck and auto-correct, does it matter that my son can’t spell?
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Teenagers emerge as a force in climate protests across Europe
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Now your groceries see you, too
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Rare half-male, half-female cardinal spotted in Pennsylvania
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Anand Giridharadas on the fallacy of billionaire philanthropy
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A tiny screw shows why iPhones won’t be ‘assembled in USA’
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Facebook plans to integrate WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook Messenger
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“Most startups,” [Dan Lyons] writes, “are terribly managed, half-assed outfits run by buffoons and bozos and frat boys.”
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"The hacker tourist ventures forth across the wide and wondrous meatspace of three continents, chronicling the laying of the longest wire on Earth." (Neal Stephenson, 1996)
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The cacao cult: Why chocolate is hot right now
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Stop trusting viral videos
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To save the sound of a Stradivarius, a whole city must keep quiet
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Netflix, YouTube, Amazon and Apple accused of GDPR breach
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Europe’s most important river is running dry
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Demand for cassettes surges as music fans hit rewind
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Disney's most important movie of 2019 isn't 'Avengers' or 'Star Wars'
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When leaders are bullies
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I Am Spock: Film legend's grandson takes on iconic TV role
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Glaciers are retreating. Millions rely on their water.
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A German mint just released a coin commemorating seventy years of currywurst
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Who owns the internet? (What Big Tech’s monopoly powers mean for our culture.)
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The world's oldest person: Guinness, 122-year-old Jeanne Calment and a Russian conspiracy theory
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Why the UK's porn block is one of the worst ideas ever
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Waste crisis looms as thousands of solar panels reach end of life
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SpaceX to lay off over 10% of its workforce
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The weight I carry - What it’s like to be too big in America
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Some plants “hear” through flowers. A study found petals vibrated in response to recordings of a bee’s wingbeats, leading plants to sweeten their nectar.
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The twenty best TV dramas since ‘The Sopranos’
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It's the end of the gene as we know it
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Must writers be moral? Their contracts may require it
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The stunning chart revealing Australia's record-breaking run of rising temperatures
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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.
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The relentlessness of modern parenting
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Life lessons from a lifestyle business - An interview with Matt Haughey, founder of MetaFilter
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Beyond the bottom line: Should business put purpose before profit?
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YouTube stars are pushing a shady Polish gambling site
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The 'future book' is here, but it's not what we expected
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'Influential' Australia should join the G7, says London think tank
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Children of Ted - Two decades after his last deadly act of ecoterrorism, the Unabomber has become an unlikely prophet to a new generation of acolytes
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In screening for suicide risk, Facebook takes on tricky public health role
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