How modern life is transforming the human skeleton
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Bodies in seats: At Facebook’s worst-performing content moderation site in North America, one contractor has died, and others say they fear for their lives
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Hell is high water: When will the Mississippi River come for New Orleans?
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Rethinking open source: The challenges behind establishing a modern emulator
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Your professional decline is coming (much) sooner than you think
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This land is whose land? Indian country and the shortcomings of settler protest.
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The loophole: He held her down, choked her, and masturbated onto her. The law said it wasn't sexual assault.
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This psychologist explains why people confess to crimes they didn’t commit
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After the tear gas (retrospective on the Hong Kong protests)
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Level design patterns in 2D games
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When you give a friend a kidney
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C.S. Peirce on science and belief
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Don’t know which toaster to buy? There’s a website for that: When did recommendation sites become such a central part of the online economy? And are they changing the way we shop?
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WeChat is watching
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Who has your back? Censorship edition 2019 - Report by the EFF that assesses major tech companies' content moderation policies
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An oral history of Vincent D’Onofrio’s perfect Men in Black ‘sugar water’ scene
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‘Bread is practically sacred’: how the taste of home sustained my refugee parents
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How to be great? Just be good, repeatably.
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Plausible deniability and gaslighting in fighting ad blockers
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The day the music burned - The 2008 Universal fire was the biggest disaster in the history of the music business — and almost nobody knew
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Project Svalbard: The Future of Have I Been Pwned
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Tech and antitrust
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The war to free science: How librarians, pirates, and funders are liberating the world’s academic research from paywalls
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Big mood machine - Spotify pursues emotional surveillance for global profit
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Mike Tyson's weed resort - The former champ smokes the toad
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Apollo’s brain: The computer that guided man to the Moon
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How Touhou inspired me to live my best life
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Uber's path of destruction
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A vast archive exposed the secret history of kidnapping and assassination in Guatemala. Now it’s under threat
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Wonderland lost: Forty years ago, Earth, Wind & Fire’s final opus produced disco’s last great moment. My dad was there for all of it.
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How artificial intelligence will revolutionize the way video games are developed and played
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How the pursuit of leisure drives internet use: The second half of humanity is joining the internet
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Webcomics: An oral history
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Bullhead City, Arizona was a retiree paradise. Then came a biblical plague of flies.
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The Digital Antiquarian: Day of the Tentacle
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A ranking of every ‘Black Mirror’ episode
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How to make wind power sustainable again
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Mentally Ill and Languishing in Jail
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The tech of ‘Terminator 2’ – an oral history
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Madonna at Sixty - The original queen of pop on aging, inspiration and why she refuses to cede control
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The Army ignored her warnings about a dangerous colleague. Then he set her on fire.
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Thandi Modise, the knitting needles guerrilla
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Gun violence has sharply declined in California's Bay Area. What happened?
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American bull - The story of American beef is like the story of the nation as a whole: a mashup of history and myth, bloody and contested
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We should opt into data tracking, not out of it, says DuckDuckGo CEO Gabe Weinberg
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'Where was the Lord?': On Jefferson Davis' birthday, nine slave testimonies
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Henry Montgomery Paved the Way for Other Juvenile Lifers to Go Free. Now 72, He May Never Get the Same Chance.
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The Catastrophist, or: On coming out as trans at 37
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Skywriting - The bizarre art form invented to promote Lucky Strike cigarettes could bounce back in the Instagram age, or it could die with the few people who know how to do it
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I’m harvesting credit card numbers and passwords from your site. Here’s how.
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