Smithsonian Open Access - 2.8 million images and 3D models from the Institution's collections released into the public domain ~humanities.history Article 1740 words 14 votes
A new understanding of Mars is beginning to emerge, thanks to data from the first year of NASA's InSight lander mission ~space Article 9 votes
A shot before last call: Capturing New Orleans’s vanishing Black bars ~food drinks Article 965 words 5 votes
Flat-earther ‘Mad’ Mike Hughes dies in rocket ride above California desert ~news usa.ca Article 337 words 30 votes
ViacomCBS to launch new streaming service blending CBS All Access with Paramount films, Viacom channels ~tv Article 708 words, published Feb 6 2020 8 votes
Donald Trump's budget gives Greenland another try – administration's proposal would give the State Department $587,000 to build a first permanent consular services outpost ~news denmark.greenland usa politics.usa Article 915 words, published Feb 19 2020 4 votes
‘Now is the time’: A Federal Reserve official urges Congress to plan for recessions ~finance Article 1020 words 7 votes
California state lawmaker introduces bill to create universal basic income of $1K a month ~news usa.ca Article 392 words 21 votes
America’s monopoly problem, explained by your internet bill ~finance business Article 3072 words, published Feb 18 2020 11 votes
US Federal Communications Commission forced by court to ask the public (again) if they think tearing up net neutrality was a really good idea or not ~tech internet Article 1039 words 26 votes
Twitter is suspending 70 pro-Bloomberg accounts, citing ‘platform manipulation’ ~tech social media Article 519 words 19 votes
Dr. Michael Hudson: Economic lessons (from 2008) for 2020 ~finance economics Video 1:25:22, published Jan 10 2020 3 votes
EFF calls for disclosure of secret financing details behind $1.1 billion .ORG sale including $360 million loan, and asks FTC to scrutinize deal ~tech internet Article 20 votes
Decades-old photography from the U-2 spy program now offers a time machine to see traces of the historical and ancient past ~humanities.history Article 2192 words 11 votes
Iowa's 'Denmark on the Prairie' creates hygge away from home – the tiny town has imported a 19th-century windmill and starred in two Danish TV shows ~life Article 1141 words 4 votes
How an AT&T lawyer helped monopolize cheerleading and induce US drug shortages ~finance Article 1623 words 5 votes
US to treat Chinese state media like an arm of Beijing's government ~news china usa journalism Article 15 votes
Jeff Bezos commits $10 billion to address climate change ~enviro climate change Article 289 words 26 votes
Boy Scouts of America file for bankruptcy due to sex-abuse lawsuits ~finance business Article 1223 words 21 votes
Professor loses landmark legal battle after claiming it’s ‘free speech’ to deliberately misgender trans students ~lgbt transgender Article 492 words 23 votes
American woman's high school class ring, which was lost in Maine in 1973, has been found in a forest in Finland ~hobbies Article 251 words 11 votes
Students say the Lambda School coding bootcamp isn't delivering on its promises, with concerns about poor instruction and prospects while being bound by income-sharing agreements ~tech Article 3866 words 16 votes
Why it's cheaper to have a baby in Finland than in the US ~life parenting family Article 54 words 11 votes
NASA selects four finalists for next Discovery mission ~space spaceflight.scientific Article 565 words 8 votes
Russia alarmed by US Air Force visit to Norwegian island of Jan Mayen – squadron visited the island in November to test the airfield ~news norway.jan mayen usa russia Article 397 words 6 votes
Nevada culinary union lays into Sanders supporters after health care backlash ~news usa.nv politics.usa Article 412 words 7 votes
DoorDash made its couriers agree to binding arbitration, and now a federal judge has ordered them to pay almost $10 million to arbitrate over 5000 claims filed by couriers ~tech Article 581 words 10 votes
Department of Justice announces a 16-count superseding indictment against Huawei, four subsidiaries, and CFO Wanzhou Meng that includes charges of racketeering and conspiracy to steal trade secrets ~tech Article 1106 words 9 votes
McClatchy, second-largest local news company in the US, files for bankruptcy due to drop in print-based circulation and revenue along with massive pension obligations ~finance business Article 2457 words 10 votes
The difference between yams and sweet potatoes is structural racism ~food history Article 868 words, published Feb 6 2020 10 votes
Bad company: The corporate appropriation of nature, divinity, and personhood in US culture ~humanities philosophy Link 6 votes
A two-year investigation of the ties between a network of deceptive dating sites and Firefly Aerospace, a company selected by NASA for bidding on lunar payloads ~space Article 3815 words 9 votes
US officials say Huawei has had the capability to secretly access telecom networks around the world for over a decade ~tech Article 15 votes
The FTC is investigating the last 10 years of acquisitions by Alphabet (including Google), Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft ~tech amazon apple facebook microsoft Article 618 words 15 votes
Tesla remotely disables Autopilot on used Model S after it was sold ~transport Article 571 words 30 votes
The Sprint/T-Mobile merger: A jump-the-shark moment for American antitrust? ~finance business Article 1919 words 7 votes
That time when the US government wanted Americans to use one dollar coins ~finance Video 6:13, published Aug 29 2019 6 votes