Mr. Chen's Mountain - The story of a Chinese billionaire who moved back home, setting his mansion down in the middle of his economically depressed ancestral village
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Reflecting on my failure to build a billion-dollar company
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Russian-style kleptocracy is infiltrating America
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Goodbye Big Five: Kashmir Hill tried to block each of Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Apple from her life for a week. To end the experiment, she tried to block all five at once.
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News to me
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Mustard, honey, hot sauce: Every gourmet food product is getting its own "sommeliers"
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Super-tall, super-skinny, super-expensive: The 'pencil towers' of New York's super-rich
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A Suspense Novelist’s Trail of Deceptions - Dan Mallory, who writes under the name A. J. Finn, went to No. 1 with his début thriller, “The Woman in the Window.” His life contains even stranger twists.
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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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How a freak accident happens
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Paul Manafort in Ukraine
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Google Play Store now open for Progressive Web Apps
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How SoundCloud rap took over everything
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This business helped transform Miami into a national plastic surgery destination. Eight women died.
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White gold: The unstoppable rise of alternative milks
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I’ve Been Committed To A Psych Ward Three Times — And It Never Helped
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The fall of Starbreeze
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How did Arron Banks afford Brexit?
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The smear: A career-killing lie almost ruined this rising Minneapolis dance star
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Socrates versus Roger Stone
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The Beatles: The strange history of Sexy Sadie
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So you want to compete with Steam: Epic, Discord, Kartridge, and RobotCache
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The plot against George Soros - How two Jewish American political consultants helped create the world’s largest anti-Semitic conspiracy theory
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Thieves of experience: How Google and Facebook corrupted capitalism
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“The Linux of social media” - How LiveJournal pioneered (then lost) blogging
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Frozen alive
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Tesla’s driver fatality rate is more than triple that of luxury cars (and likely even higher)
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Creating while clean - Steven Tyler, Julien Baker, Ben Harper, Jason Isbell, Joe Walsh, and other sober musicians on how to thrive creatively without drugs or booze
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The twenty-five greatest science fiction tropes, ranked
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The 2019 geopolitical reading list
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Is sunscreen the new margarine?
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The Pyramids of Giza - Chapter 1: The Charlatan and the Gossip
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Battle of the ax men: Who really built the first electric rock 'n' roll guitar?
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Who owns the internet? (What Big Tech’s monopoly powers mean for our culture.)
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The JRPG Startup Cost - An analysis of how long it takes to reach various gameplay milestones in classic JRPGs
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The world's oldest person: Guinness, 122-year-old Jeanne Calment and a Russian conspiracy theory
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How cartographers for the US Military inadvertently created a house of horrors in South Africa
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The weight I carry - What it’s like to be too big in America
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The twenty best TV dramas since ‘The Sopranos’
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The battle for the Boqueria
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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?
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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
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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
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How "At the Gates" took seven years of my life – and nearly the rest
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The egg thief - For decades, Jeffrey Lendrum has been snatching unhatched raptors and selling them, investigators believe, to wealthy Middle Eastern falconers
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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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Start with a website, not a mobile app
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How Millennials became the burnout generation
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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
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