Why the search for dark matter depends on ancient shipwrecks ~science physics.particle Article 1858 words, published Oct 25 2019 7 votes
The not-com bubble is popping—The unicorn massacre unfolding today is exactly the opposite of what happened in 2000 ~finance business Article 514 words 22 votes
China is usually strategic and savvy. Why does it seem so upset about a tweet, an app, and a gamer in a mask in the absence of any real threat? ~society politics Article 2451 words 13 votes
Jeff Bezos’s master plan - What the Amazon founder and CEO wants for his empire and himself, and what that means for the rest of us ~finance business Article 11 112 words, published Oct 8 2019 16 votes
The end of silence - The tech industry is producing a rising din, and our bodies can’t adapt ~tech Article 9099 words 12 votes
Forever 21's bankruptcy shows that teens are outgrowing malls ~finance business Article 517 words 18 votes
Scientists taught rats to play hide-and-seek with them ~science Article 535 words, published Sep 12 2019 9 votes
The US health-care system found a way to make peanuts cost $4,200 ~health healthcare Article 2181 words 8 votes
It’s time for Black athletes to leave White colleges ~sports Article 2674 words, published Sep 5 2019 7 votes
The Atlantic launches new subscription plans and introduces a metered model ~news journalism Article 548 words 13 votes
An ingenious microscope could change how quickly disease is detected ~science medicine Article 479 words 6 votes
Free speech tropes - Common misstatements, misconceptions, and bad arguments about the First Amendment in American media ~misc Article 2325 words 9 votes
Meritocracy prizes achievement above all else, turning life into an endless competition and making everyone—even the rich—miserable ~life work education Article 2629 words 11 votes
The anthropocene is a joke: On geological timescales, human civilization is an event, not an epoch ~science Article 3728 words 15 votes
The human cost of amber - Fossils preserved in sap offer an astonishingly clear view of the distant past, but they come at a high price ~science Article 4912 words 6 votes
The future of the city is childless - America’s urban rebirth is missing something key—actual births ~life family Article 1971 words 12 votes
The biggest star at YouTube's VidCon 2019 was TikTok ~tech social media Article 1965 words, published Jul 12 2019 4 votes
Cancel Qatar: The money for the next men's World Cup would be better invested in the women's game. ~sports.football Article 468 words, published Jul 7 2019 8 votes
Reparations are not the answer - The struggle against poverty needs to be a collective fight ~life Article 495 words 11 votes
Five years ago, Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 vanished into the Indian Ocean. Officials on land know more about why than they dare to say ~transport Article 10 277 words, published Jun 14 2019 16 votes
Your professional decline is coming (much) sooner than you think ~life work Article 6663 words 16 votes
No, you don't look like that. How phone cameras alter reality. ~tech Article 480 words, published Dec 18 2018 7 votes
The platform excuse is dying ~tech facebook social media Article 1785 words, published Jun 11 2019 16 votes
A Turkish opposition leader is fighting Recep Tayyip Erdoğan with ‘radical love’ ~society politics Article 1517 words 8 votes
Men in Black: International forgets what made the original so great ~movies reviews science fiction Article 566 words 9 votes
The friends who have been playing the same game of Dungeons & Dragons for thirty years ~games.tabletop dungeons and dragons Article 1779 words 10 votes
Atomic veterans were silenced for fifty Years. Now, they’re talking. ~humanities.history Article 765 words, published May 27 2019 8 votes
Facebook’s dystopian definition of ‘fake’ - For the social-media platform, a doctored video of Nancy Pelosi is content, not a phony ~tech facebook social media Article 2646 words 9 votes
Abolish the priesthood: To save the Church, Catholics must detach themselves from the clerical hierarchy—and take the faith back into their own hands ~humanities religion theology Article 8092 words 10 votes
"Breakfast food" is a lie - Americans eat a narrower variety of foods for breakfast than anyone else ~food history Article 514 words 6 votes
Pope Francis stops hiding from the Church’s sexual-abuse epidemic ~humanities religion Article 469 words 5 votes
I tried to make Facebook's news feed random and fun ~tech facebook social media Article 494 words 6 votes