Nicolas Cage on his legacy, his philosophy of acting and his metaphorical — and literal — search for the Holy Grail ~movies Article 4469 words 5 votes
Concrete Utopia: An art exhibition on Yugoslavia documents an extraordinary architectural legacy that has been neglected by mainstream historians ~design architecture Article 3232 words, published Nov 6 2018 7 votes
The anti-medical dogma of Christian Science led my father to an agonising death. Now the church itself is in decline – and it can’t happen fast enough. ~humanities religion Article 4552 words 9 votes
Drink up, stoners: Big Alcohol's pursuit to make weed beverages ~food drinks Article 5567 words, published Jul 30 2019 8 votes
The absurdities of 'franchise fatigue' and 'sequelitis' (or, what is happening to the box office?!) ~movies Article 3534 words 6 votes
Activision Blizzard has moved billions of dollars of profit into tax havens and is under investigation by multiple international tax authorities ~games Article 3006 words 22 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
How long does it take to make a classic album? ~music Article 3064 words, published Jul 24 2019 8 votes
The JRPG Startup Cost, Part II - An analysis of how long it takes to reach various gameplay milestones in classic JRPGs ~games Article 9389 words 9 votes
The life and death of an Instagram fish - What one funny-looking fish taught us about evolution, the internet, and the monsters we create ~tech social media internet Article 5616 words, published Jul 19 2019 7 votes
The empty radicalism of the climate apocalypse: What would it mean to get serious about climate change? ~enviro climate change Article 5848 words, published Jun 19 2019 13 votes
The tyranny of the "ideal woman": How we became suckers for the hard labor of self-optimization ~life.women Article 4548 words 9 votes
He’d been kept alive with tubes for nearly seventeen years. Who is he, and is it possible he’s conscious? ~health healthcare medicine Article 4724 words 8 votes
One day, one city, no relief - twenty-four hours inside San Francisco’s homelessness crisis ~life Article 7 votes
Shade: It’s a civic resource, an index of inequality, and a requirement for public health. Shade should be a mandate for urban designers ~design urban planning architecture Article 6427 words, published Apr 1 2019 11 votes
Destiny 2's switch to free-to-play and new Shadowkeep expansion have been delayed to October 1 (previously September 17) ~games Article 346 words 5 votes
Inside the broken case of David Ortiz's shooting in the Dominican Republic ~sports.baseball Article 4400 words, published Jul 23 2019 5 votes
How health officials in pro-life states are quietly dismantling abortion access ~health Article 6662 words 6 votes
Murder in the Moroccan mountains: The fragility of the adventure travel economy and what happens when a small tourist hub is shocked by violence ~life Article 4599 words 7 votes
For eight hours last fall, Paradise, Calif., became a zone at the limits of the American imagination — and a preview of the American future ~enviro Article 10 848 words 4 votes
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 ~food Article 3880 words 8 votes
Enslaved on a British cannabis farm: Minh was 16 when he was kidnapped, raped and trafficked to the UK. When the police found him, he was treated like a criminal rather than a victim ~life Article 4971 words, published Jul 26 2019 10 votes
Seabed mining is coming — bringing mineral riches and fears of epic extinctions ~enviro Article 3376 words 8 votes
The disappeared, the dead, and the damned: Inside the Church Of Scientology ~humanities.history Article 3669 words, published Jul 21 2019 8 votes
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? ~news journalism Article 4740 words 10 votes
The last days of John Allen Chau, the American missionary who was killed in November 2018 by the uncontacted tribe on North Sentinel Island ~humanities religion Article 10 830 words, published Jul 24 2019 11 votes
How the plastics industry is fighting to keep polluting the world ~enviro climate change recycling plastics pollution Article 7674 words, published Jul 20 2019 12 votes
The near impossible twenty-year journey to translate Fire Emblem: Thracia 776 ~games Article 4416 words 6 votes
Airborne concentrations and chemical considerations of radioactive ruthenium from an undeclared major nuclear release in 2017 ~science Article 3311 words, published Jul 26 2019 13 votes
YouTube said it was getting serious about hate speech. Over six weeks later, why is it still full of extremists? ~tech google social media Article 3414 words, published Jul 25 2019 23 votes
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? ~humanities philosophy ethics Article 3287 words, published Jul 22 2019 17 votes
'Desert Island Dump' A three-part study of the most polluted beach in the world. ~enviro plastics Text 38 words 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 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 plastic waste And a video of the beach. 7 votes
The Voter Suppression Chronicles: When the Roberts Court all but nullified the Voting Rights Act, it said the pre-1965 practices were long gone. New hearings by the House make clear: They’re back. ~news usa.nc usa.al usa.sd politics Article 5489 words 11 votes
Tax Watch UK report: Grand Theft Auto developer Rockstar has paid no UK corporate tax in ten years and claimed £42m in subsidies ~games Article 3376 words, published Jul 26 2019 6 votes
Fatal distraction: Forgetting a child in the backseat of a car is a horrifying mistake. Is it a crime? ~life parenting Article 8726 words 19 votes
Democracy's Dilemma: Democracies rely on free exchange of ideas and information, but that can also be weaponized. How can democratic societies protect—and protect themselves from—this? ~misc politics Article 4619 words, published May 15 2019 11 votes
Deep in the interior of British Columbia, a temperate rainforest that holds vast stores of carbon and is home to endangered caribou is being clear-cut as fast as the Amazon ~enviro conservation Article 3238 words 10 votes
The man who’s going to save your neighborhood grocery store ~food Article 7913 words, published Apr 23 2019 7 votes
More people need to talk about having fewer children ~life family relationships Article 6222 words 29 votes