Bandcamp is waiving their fee on sales today, with many artists and labels having special releases, discounts, or donating their own proceeds ~music Link 16 votes
"Pursuit as Happiness", a previously unpublished short story by Ernest Hemingway ~books short stories Article 5986 words 5 votes
Every Jurassic Park dinosaur illustrated with modern science ~science biology.paleo Article 5698 words 11 votes
Bitcoin mining's three-body problem - An analysis of the three principal forces that drive the mining industry ~finance cryptocurrency Article 5436 words 8 votes
The case for reparations: We've had 250 years of slavery, 90 years of Jim Crow, 60 years of separate but equal and 35 years of racist housing policy. Without addressing this, the US can't move on ~humanities.history Article 14 406 words, published Jun 3 2014 32 votes
Farming and selling gold in RuneScape is helping Venezuelans survive their country's economic crisis ~games Article 3917 words, published May 27 2020 7 votes
The definitive history of Commander, Magic: The Gathering's most popular format ~games.tabletop card games Article 3008 words, published May 28 2020 5 votes
Spend some time down the rabbit hole of author-as-gameshow contestant, from Herman Wouk to John le Carré ~books Article 3776 words, published May 28 2020 3 votes
Making a SNES game in 2020 - The story of building Yo-Yo Shuriken, including designing and developing the game itself with modern tools and manufacturing a physical cartridge release ~comp Article 6187 words 4 votes
The injustice of this moment is not an 'aberration' ~misc politics Article 3803 words, published Jan 17 2020 8 votes
Martin Luther King's challenge to the nation's social scientists ~science sociology Article 4578 words 7 votes
What an economic liberal and conservative learned from their friendship ~life Article 2695 words 5 votes
Frames of consciousness - Can electrical impulses in the brain explain the stuff that dreams are made on? ~science Article 3786 words, published May 18 2020 4 votes
Wise thoughts: Summaries of classic philosophical works in words of one syllable ~humanities philosophy Article 5962 words 7 votes
Software bug in Bombardier airliner made planes turn the wrong way ~transport Article 3534 words 6 votes
"[R]iots do not develop out of thin air. [...] in the final analysis, a riot is the language of the unheard." MLK, Jr., 1967 ~humanities.history Article 5844 words 9 votes
From homeless refugee to chess prodigy, nine-year-old dreams of becoming youngest Grandmaster ~games.tabletop Article 3539 words, published May 5 2020 6 votes
The remaking of Steve Buscemi: In a rare interview, Hollywood's most beloved misfit opens up about anxiety, loss, and the hard work of getting through it all ~movies Article 3620 words 9 votes
The Black American amputation epidemic ~health healthcare Article 7462 words, published May 19 2020 7 votes
The crisis within conservatism: Since the 80s, the right has increasingly relied on media bubbles, wedge issues, resistance to social change and making electoral participation harder to hold power ~misc politics Article 3231 words, published May 28 2019 7 votes
The new theatrics of remote therapy. How does treatment change when your patients are on a screen? ~health.mental Article 4857 words 3 votes
Ahmaud Arbery was lynched: He was killed in the street by White men. That’s how lynchings work ~life Article 3129 words 13 votes
During Michigan's COVID-19 response, anti-social distancing protests were promoted by a small set of activists linked to the 2012-era, anti-union so-called "right-to-work" movement ~misc politics Article 3007 words 8 votes
How white backlash controls American progress: Backlash dynamics are one of the defining patterns of the country’s history ~humanities.history Article 3263 words 8 votes
The Kentucky miner who scammed Americans by claiming he was Hitler and plotting a ‘revolt’ with ‘spaceships’ ~humanities.history Article 4106 words 9 votes
When SimCity got serious: the story of Maxis Business Simulations and SimRefinery ~games Article 12 608 words 14 votes
We’re not polarized enough: Ezra Klein’s flawed diagnosis of the divisions in American politics ~books reviews Article 3854 words 5 votes
Making life cheap: Population control, herd immunity, and other anti-humanist fables ~enviro climate change Article 5691 words 6 votes
The president’s job is to manage risk. But Donald Trump is the risk: Donald Trump was a gamble. It’s not paying off. ~misc politics Article 3788 words 4 votes
Does “The Case Against Socialism” hold up? It does not. A brief look at Rand Paul’s new book ~books reviews Article 16 528 words 9 votes
A handful of sheriffs in Washington State have said they won’t enforce the governor’s shutdown orders. But who are the state’s rural residents actually listening to? ~health Article 6159 words 6 votes
How New York suffered nearly ten times the number of deaths as California ~health Article 11 354 words 6 votes
The GOP is the problem. Is ‘human identity politics’ the solution? (Book review of Ezra Klein’s 'Why We’re Polarized') ~books reviews Article 3814 words 9 votes
The coronavirus crisis has highlighted exploitative global trade regimes ~misc politics Article 3457 words 9 votes