The rise of meatless meat, explained: Nine questions about meat alternatives you were too embarrassed to ask ~food meat Article 4128 words 8 votes
Could Barcelona’s plan to push out cars and build superblocks work in the US? ~design urban planning Article 2014 words, published Apr 12 2019 11 votes
A poetry-writing AI has just been unveiled. It’s ... pretty good. ~books poetry Article 2195 words 10 votes
South Africa’s ruling party ANC wins reelection ~news south africa politics Article 883 words 6 votes
Millions of women take folic acid for a healthier pregnancy. Thank Lucy Wills: in the 1920s, she discovered the “Wills Factor” in Marmite ~health Article 759 words 8 votes
The rise of fear-based social media like Nextdoor, Citizen, and now Amazon’s Neighbors ~tech social media amazon.neighbors Article 2180 words 13 votes
The making of Amazon Prime - An oral history of the subscription service that changed online shopping forever ~tech amazon.prime Article 5785 words 6 votes
Burger King is the latest brand to use depression as a marketing tool ~design advertising Article 941 words 11 votes
The productivity pit: Work communication software like Teams, Slack, and Workplace were supposed to make us more productive. They haven’t. ~tech Article 4011 words 10 votes
The once-hot robotics startup Anki is shutting down after raising more than $200 million ~tech Article 597 words 7 votes
Netflix’s wonderful Street Food focuses on the human aspect of ordinary food ~tv reviews Article 1685 words 6 votes
The most prescient science fiction author you aren’t reading: Feminist dystopian fiction owes just as much to this woman — who wrote as a man — as Margaret Atwood. ~books science fiction fiction Article 1893 words, published Apr 18 2019 8 votes
Malaria is among the world’s biggest killers of children. Now there’s a vaccine. ~health medicine Article 1053 words 5 votes
Women suffer needless pain because almost everything is designed for men ~life Article 2312 words 18 votes
Sudan’s longtime leader was ousted in a military coup. Protesters still want democracy. ~news sudan politics crime.war Article 1726 words 7 votes
Hindsight 2070: We asked fifteen experts, “What do we do now that will be considered unthinkable in fifty years?” Here’s what they told us ~humanities Article 465 words, published Mar 27 2019 12 votes
"Innovation": The latest GOP smokescreen on climate change policy ~enviro climate change Article 1557 words, published Jan 4 2019 9 votes
Moral circle expansion: How humanity’s idea of who deserves moral concern has grown — and will keep growing ~humanities philosophy ethics Article 2976 words 9 votes
Maryland just became the sixth state to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour ~finance Article 1115 words 23 votes
New York’s Orthodox Jewish community is battling measles outbreaks. Vaccine deniers are to blame. ~health Article 2105 words, published Nov 9 2018 8 votes
The best $5,929.10 I ever spent: Moving back to the Midwest ~life housing Article 2162 words 12 votes
Robert Mueller’s “collusion” case so far, explained ~misc politics Article 1992 words, published Feb 21 2019 7 votes
New Zealand prime minister on mosque shooter: “You will never hear me mention his name” ~news politics new zealand.christchurch Article 389 words 12 votes
Captain Marvel has made $760 million worldwide. $1 billion is in its sights. ~movies Article 399 words 18 votes
Why tech companies failed to keep the New Zealand shooter’s extremism from going viral ~tech social media Article 2305 words 9 votes
Why are millennials burned out? Capitalism. ~humanities Article 2147 words, published Feb 4 2019 17 votes
Twitter has ambitious plans to change the way we tweet by limiting snark and improving the "health" of interactions, but so far it's gone nowhere ~tech social media Article 2714 words 15 votes
Decaf coffee's terrible reputation is outdated, but it's still scorned because of what caffeine represents ~food drinks Article 2754 words, published Mar 7 2019 4 votes
Many companies like Lyft and Uber are going public without having profits - The last time this was so common was in 2000, right before the dot-com bubble burst ~tech Article 1840 words 15 votes
Flickr will soon start deleting photos — and massive chunks of internet history ~tech social media internet google facebook Article 1626 words, published Feb 6 2019 27 votes
Kara Swisher’s live-tweeted interview with Jack Dorsey highlighted how difficult it is to follow a conversation on Twitter ~tech social media Article 839 words 10 votes
Spotify is in talks to pay more than $200 million to acquire Gimlet Media, the startup behind popular podcasts like Reply All ~tech Article 469 words 16 votes