The problem with telling sick US workers to stay home ~health Article 647 words, published Feb 28 2020 7 votes
Inside the collapse of $100 million home-design startup Homepolish ~design Article 51 words, published Feb 28 2020 6 votes
Planet plastic - How big oil and big soda kept a global environmental calamity a secret for decades ~enviro plastics recycling Article 7209 words 14 votes
Norway's $1 trillion wealth fund will exclude four companies for their vast emissions of greenhouse gases, or at least put them on probation to force them to change ~finance business Article 671 words 8 votes
Iran's negligence may lead to an even greater global viral outbreak ~health Article 1013 words 7 votes
We’re not prepared for the end of Moore’s Law ~comp Article 2055 words, published Feb 24 2020 13 votes
Knitting’s tangled history: From aristocrats to punks, the humble yarn has spun its way through centuries of social change ~arts Article 754 words, published Jan 16 2020 3 votes
How precious metals sellers psychologically manipulate elderly conservatives ~finance Article 1792 words 10 votes
How dating became a market, and the consequences that follow from this ~life relationships Article 2985 words 22 votes
The greatest human rights violation on the planet is the harm men do to women ~life Article 1083 words 12 votes
Cameo is the logical endpoint of modern celebrity-obsessed culture and interaction—a perfect storm of convenience, access, and affordability ~tech social media Article 1606 words 13 votes
US President Donald Trump faces his 'Chernobyl moment' after slashing pandemic defences to the bone ~health Article 265 words 12 votes
Derek Murphy investigates marathon runners whose times seem suspicious, which led him to the case of a seventy-year-old doctor named Frank Meza ~sports Article 5793 words 9 votes
Visa grants Coinbase power to issue Bitcoin debit cards ~finance cryptocurrency banking Article 1070 words 6 votes
Eight candidates have applied to head Norway’s sovereign wealth fund – board prepares to decide who should steer the global portfolio through a time of transition ~finance Article 348 words 6 votes
How the Coronavirus revealed authoritarianism’s fatal flaw ~health Article 2653 words, published Feb 22 2020 14 votes
EU Commission to staff: Switch to Signal messaging app ~tech security Article 619 words, published Feb 20 2020 14 votes
A shot before last call: Capturing New Orleans’s vanishing Black bars ~food drinks Article 965 words 5 votes
Physicists take their closest look yet at an antimatter atom ~science physics.particle physics.quantum Article 10 votes
Garbage language: Why do corporations speak the way they do? ~life work Article 4246 words, published Feb 20 2020 10 votes
Greenpeace asks Norway's supreme court to rule on Arctic oil – a case that could block the petroleum industry's expansion plans ~enviro climate change Article 446 words 5 votes
Why six hours of sleep is as bad as none at all ~health Article 970 words, published Mar 7 2016 5 votes
‘Now is the time’: A Federal Reserve official urges US Congress to plan for recessions ~finance Article 1020 words 7 votes
Twitter is suspending 70 pro-Bloomberg accounts, citing ‘platform manipulation’ ~tech social media Article 519 words 19 votes
Prompted by Brexit, Google will move UK users' data out of Irish jurisdiction so they are no longer covered by EU privacy rules ~tech privacy google Article 464 words 21 votes
I spoke out against sexual harassment at Uber. The aftermath was more terrifying than anything I faced before ~tech privacy Article published Feb 17 2020 16 votes
This simple crib cost $28,885 to make—because it was made with zero fossil fuels ~enviro climate change energy.renewable Article 600 words 13 votes
Giant phages have been found in French lakes, baboons from Kenya, and the human mouth ~science biology.molecular Article 567 words 10 votes
I got a Ring doorbell camera. It scared the hell out of me. ~tech amazon privacy security.home Article 1905 words, published Feb 13 2020 11 votes
Now that Sweden has called a halt to its five-year trial with negative interest rates the serious work has begun on looking at whether it worked ~finance economics Article 2132 words 7 votes
The messy, secretive reality behind OpenAI’s bid to save the world ~tech microsoft Article 5935 words 9 votes