An Honest Living - Steve Salaita tries to make sense of his unusual transition from a tenured professorship to an hourly wage driving school buses ~life work Article 7049 words, published Feb 17 2019 10 votes
Jacob Wohl has spread lies on Twitter about Robert Mueller, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Kamala Harris, and more. Now, he’s eyeing the 2020 US election. ~news usa politics.usa Article 3132 words 22 votes
Microsoft’s HoloLens 2: A $3,500 mixed reality headset for the factory, not the living room ~tech microsoft Article 4314 words 12 votes
State of the Factory: Year 1 - The developer of Cultist Simulator talks in detail about indie development, publishing, finances and more ~games Article 5032 words, published Feb 12 2019 8 votes
Who killed Tulum, Mexico? Greed, gringos, diesel, drugs, shamans, seaweed, and a disco ball in the jungle. ~life Article 5711 words, published Feb 20 2019 7 votes
The trauma floor - The secret lives of Facebook moderators in America ~tech facebook social media Article 7117 words 17 votes
The deadly truth about a world built for men – from stab vests to car crashes ~life Article 4318 words 11 votes
Climate change enters its blood-sucking phase - as winters grow warmer in North America, thirsty ticks are on the move ~enviro climate change Article 5020 words 13 votes
Highlights and transcript from the first of Mark Zuckerberg's "public discussions on the future of technology and society" ~tech social media facebook privacy Article 21 010 words 8 votes
"She never looks back": Inside Elizabeth Holmes's final months at Theranos ~tech Article 3455 words 7 votes
Time for happiness - Research consistently shows that the happiest people use their money to buy time ~life work Article 6919 words, published Jan 24 2019 10 votes
My life at 47 is back to what it was like at 27 - Post-divorce, I’ve returned to my old ways ~life relationships Article 65 words 15 votes
How former referee Tim Donaghy conspired to fix NBA games ~sports.basketball Article 11 663 words 7 votes
How did the police know you were near a crime scene? Google told them ~tech google privacy Article 3387 words, published Feb 7 2019 10 votes
After years of inaction, Delta teacher shortage reaches ‘crisis’ levels ~life education work Article 3453 words 11 votes
The state of BioWare - With a project over six years in the making, the storied game studio enters a new era ~games Article 4308 words, published Feb 11 2019 8 votes
Digital Foundry Tech Interview: Metro Exodus, ray tracing and the 4A Engine's open world upgrades ~games Article 5470 words 9 votes
Blackout at home: When the lights went out at Shea Stadium in 1977 ~sports.baseball Article 3124 words, published Jul 13 2017 4 votes
Trapped in a hoax: survivors of conspiracy theories speak out ~life Article 4078 words, published Jan 24 2019 11 votes
How Facebook Screwed Us All - It’s not just spreading phony stories everywhere—it’s killing real news ~news journalism Article 4136 words 12 votes
If you're drugged and raped, the police may never know. Here's why. ~life nsfw Article 6469 words 6 votes
How the US has hidden its empire: The United States likes to think of itself as a republic, but it holds territories all over the world – the map you always see doesn’t tell the whole story. ~humanities.history Article 3234 words 12 votes
The internet was built on the free labor of open source developers. Is that sustainable? ~tech internet Article 5933 words 14 votes
How to pick a career (that actually fits you) ~life work Article 16 110 words, published Apr 12 2018 10 votes
The Devil’s Advocate: Francis Malofiy may be the most hated man in the Philadelphia legal community. He may also be on the cusp of getting the last laugh on rock’s golden gods. ~music Article 4979 words 9 votes
The ethical dilemma facing Silicon Valley’s next generation ~tech Article 5766 words, published Feb 6 2019 9 votes
Encrypted databases: The issues with searchable encryption and the ever-expanding leakage function ~comp Article 4086 words 6 votes
2019 Annual Letter from Bill & Melinda Gates: "We didn’t see this coming" ~enviro climate change Link 16 votes
“To witness the final moment”: Forty years of ‘Faces of Death’ ~movies horror documentaries Article 3344 words 3 votes
Bob Costas, unplugged: From NBC and broadcast icon to dropped from the Super Bowl ~sports.american_football Article 5777 words, published Feb 1 2019 7 votes
Scientists are totally rethinking animal cognition ~science biology Article 5361 words, published Feb 6 2019 12 votes
Inside the secret Facebook war for Mormon hearts and minds - What happens when social media manipulation targets religious faith? ~tech facebook social media Article 3250 words 12 votes
The fight for gender equality in big-wave surfing, one of the most dangerous sports on earth ~sports Article 8873 words, published Feb 7 2019 5 votes
A profile of Alex Stamos, former security chief at Yahoo and Facebook who was at ground zero of major cyberattacks and Russian election interference ~tech facebook social media security.cyber Article 10 313 words 6 votes
Seeking Utopia in Louisiana - The lost story of a group of socialists who built an extraordinary, but flawed, colony ~humanities.history Article 3326 words 9 votes
The five families of feces - The porta-potty business is as dirty as you’d think. But one man keeps coming up smelling like roses. ~finance business Article 3745 words 7 votes