A look inside some of the facets of the world of falcon breeding, racing, and hunting ~hobbies Article 3642 words, published Dec 10 2019 4 votes
The terror queue - Google and YouTube moderators speak out on the work that's giving them PTSD ~tech social media google Article 6184 words 13 votes
Examination of US Fortune 500 companies' 2018 filings shows that many paid a low effective federal tax rate in 2018, including ninety-one that paid no federal taxes at all ~finance business Article 14 244 words 9 votes
Prime leverage: How Amazon wields power in the technology world ~tech amazon.web services Article 3013 words 5 votes
When will the Arctic see its first ice-free summer? ~enviro climate change water Article 4650 words 6 votes
Death Stranding: Hideo Kojima’s latest release is strange, celebrated by critics, and highlights how hard it is for any video game to achieve mainstream legitimacy without a vast budget ~games Article 3242 words 5 votes
Dumbass Home 2.0: Home automation without bullshit ~tech Article 6234 words, published Mar 5 2019 21 votes
For decades, anti-government and white supremacist groups have been attempting to recruit police officers – and the authorities themselves aren’t even certain about the scale of the problem ~misc politics Article 3742 words 12 votes
"Forgive us our debts": Jubilee Baptist Church is a quasi-socialist, anti-racist, LGBTQ-affirming church conducting a bold experiment, focusing on debt, work, and freedom from oppression ~humanities religion Article 8024 words 10 votes
Showdown in Wisconn Valley: Why won’t Foxconn tell Wisconsin what it’s building? ~tech Article 3342 words 13 votes
"Humans were not centre stage": How ancient cave art puts us in our place ~humanities.history Article 4749 words 13 votes
Salesforce founder Marc Benioff has donated a fortune to right capitalism's wrongs, and he thinks his fellow billionaires should too. Why can't we just be grateful? ~finance Article 6563 words 10 votes
The age of Instagram face - How social media, FaceTune, and plastic surgery created a single, cyborgian look ~tech social media Article 3949 words 11 votes
What did ‘authenticity’ in food mean in 2019? ~food restaurants Article 3521 words, published Dec 3 2019 5 votes
An investigation into the theft and sale of over $50 million worth of African IP address blocks by an insider ~tech internet Article 3994 words 8 votes
Venturing a perspective on the drug pricing debate ~health healthcare medicine Article 4263 words 3 votes
Lovers in Auschwitz, reunited seventy-two years later. He had one question ~life relationships Article 3381 words, published Dec 8 2019 7 votes
Ads Inc. spent over $50M placing ads on Facebook with fake celebrity news and "subscription traps", scamming people out of millions ~tech facebook social media Article 5950 words 11 votes
This is what democracy tastes like: Why America will never tire of seeing its political wannabes take a big, performative bite of something deep fried or grease soaked ~food Article 5198 words 7 votes
Can Venice hold back the tide? Sea level rise, erosion and cruise ships are worsening their flood problem, and corruption has nearly scuppered the solution ~enviro water climate change Article 4227 words 8 votes
Megan Rapinoe: Sports Illustrated 2019 Sportsperson of the Year ~sports.football Article 5361 words 5 votes
Paul A. Volcker, Fed Chairman who helped shape American economic policy for decades, notably by leading the Federal Reserve’s campaign to subdue inflation in the 1970s and 1980s, is dead at 92 ~finance economics Article 4178 words 4 votes
A tale of two covariates: Why OWID and company are wrong about US healthcare ~health healthcare Article 7213 words, published Nov 8 2019 4 votes
PlayStation: The first twenty-five years - An oral history of Sony’s big gaming play, and how it changed the world ~games Article 11 615 words 6 votes
Chaos at the top of the world - The untold stories behind the viral photo of the deadly traffic jam at the top of Mount Everest ~sports Article 5735 words 13 votes
America's parents want paid family leave and affordable child care. Why can't they get it? ~life family education parenting Article 4003 words 15 votes
Paul Skalnik is a liar, a con artist and a snitch. The state of Florida is planning to execute a man based largely on his word. ~life Article 14 291 words 13 votes
America’s dark history of killing its own troops with cluster munitions ~humanities.history Article 5998 words 8 votes
The new debtor's prisons: High-interest loan companies are using Utah’s small claims courts to arrest borrowers and take their bail money ~finance Article 5416 words 15 votes
Inside the hate factory: how Facebook fuels far-right profit ~tech facebook social media Article 3580 words 12 votes
US FDA bowed to industry for decades as alarms were sounded over talc ~health Article 3536 words 7 votes
There’s no fire alarm for artificial general intelligence ~tech Article 7652 words, published Oct 14 2017 11 votes
How herpes became a sexual boogeyman: It’s not a serious health threat. The CDC doesn’t even recommend regular testing. So how did herpes get so aggressively feared? ~health Article 4369 words 12 votes
Match Group, which owns most major online dating services, screens for sexual predators on Match.com — but not on Tinder, OkCupid or PlentyofFish ~tech Article 7554 words 10 votes
Behind the one-way mirror: A deep dive into the technology of corporate surveillance ~tech privacy Article 13 070 words 9 votes
In a major ethical leap for the tech world, Chinese start-ups have built algorithms that the government uses to track [Uighurs] members of a largely Muslim minority group ~tech Article 5665 words, published Apr 14 2019 13 votes
How the right’s radical thinktanks reshaped the UK Conservative party ~misc politics Article 6007 words 5 votes