Dispelling the myth of robotic efficiency
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We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture
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Is fair trade finished? Fairtrade changed the way we shop. But major companies have started to abandon it and set up their own in-house imitations – threatening the very idea of fair trade.
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Humans will never colonize Mars
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Journalists often withhold details of mass shooters and suicides to discourage copycats. Should that “strategic silence” be extended to extremist speech, misinformation, and propaganda, too?
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The last days of John Allen Chau, the American missionary who was killed in November 2018 by the uncontacted tribe on North Sentinel Island
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How the plastics industry is fighting to keep polluting the world
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The near impossible twenty-year journey to translate Fire Emblem: Thracia 776
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Airborne concentrations and chemical considerations of radioactive ruthenium from an undeclared major nuclear release in 2017
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YouTube said it was getting serious about hate speech. Over six weeks later, why is it still full of extremists?
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The perilous trip of Iboga, Africa’s premier psychedelic
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Tainted by association: Would you carve a roast with a knife that had been used in a murder? Why not? And what does this tell us about ethics?
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'Desert Island Dump' A three-part study of the most polluted beach in the world.
Desert Island Dump Chapter 1: Shipwrecked Chapter 2: The Big Haul Chapter 3: "Stolen from Talley's" Here's an abriged version: Henderson Island: the Pacific paradise groaning under 18 tonnes of...
Desert Island Dump
Here's an abriged version: Henderson Island: the Pacific paradise groaning under 18 tonnes of plastic waste
And a video of the beach.
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Tax Watch UK report: Grand Theft Auto developer Rockstar has paid no UK corporate tax in ten years and claimed £42m in subsidies
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The man who’s going to save your neighborhood grocery store
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Five myths about global poverty
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One night wonder: They got their shot on Broadway—and they blew it
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Marxism and Buddhism: Life is suffering, whether you sit under a Bodhi Tree or stand with the workers. But do the two schools agree on the remedy?
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More people need to talk about having fewer children
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David Sirlin's new fighting game Fantasy Strike released today - this is his summary of its notable features and innovations
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The Bronze Age of Scandinavia was made possible by trade with Great Britain
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Lean Cuisine doesn’t want to be part of diet culture anymore. Does it have a choice?
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The fall of Mic was a warning - Lessons from the death of a venture-backed, Facebook-dependent, millennial-focused news site
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Underworld: How the Sinaloa drug cartel digs its tunnels
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The Crane Wife - Ten days after calling off her engagement, CJ Hauser travels to the Gulf Coast to live among scientists and whooping cranes
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Craigslist's nerdy founder wants to change the world -- starting with your daily news
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The insulin racket
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The man with the golden airline ticket
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The board game of the alpha nerds. Before Risk, before Dungeons & Dragons, before Magic: The Gathering, there was Diplomacy.
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Fearing for his life: Ramsey Orta filmed the killing of Eric Garner, so the police punished him
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The bizarre, true story of Metal Gear Solid’s English translation
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‘I need a superman for me’: Homeless home care worker advocates for better working conditions, a living wage
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Good faith: How queer BDSM and sex work helped me to refuse an inheritance of indoctrination
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How Japanese RPGs inspired a new generation of fantasy authors
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'The Discord is the church:' A place for gamers to worship
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Is it okay to laugh at Florida Man? What it’s like to go viral as one of the Internet’s biggest memes — and the moral complications of laughing along
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Dungeon generation in Diablo 1
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The dirty business of hosting hate online
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The rise and fall of French cuisine
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Largest US drug companies flooded the country with seventy-six billion opioid pills, DEA data shows
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The sad and lonely life of an Eminem fan in 2018
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Notre-Dame came far closer to collapsing than people knew. This is how it was saved.
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Killer heat in the United States: Climate choices and the future of dangerously hot days
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The promise and price of cellular therapies - New “living drugs”—made from a patient’s own cells—can cure once incurable cancers. But can we afford them?
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Why you should start a blog right now
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Gotta catch 'em all: Understanding how IMSI-catchers exploit cell networks
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Torn apart: The vicious war over young adult books
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Why soil is disappearing from farms
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'Climate Despair' Is Making People Give Up on Life
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Gotta catch 'em all: Understanding how IMSI-catchers exploit cell networks
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