Mel Brooks writes it all down - The comedian will publish his memoirs at the age of ninety-five, and is at work on “History of the World, Part II”
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Pompeii still has buried secrets - The first major excavations in decades shed light on how ordinary citizens shopped and snacked—and where slaves slept
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Bassoonfluencers: The world of Instagram practice accounts
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The lonely work of moderating Hacker News
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Trader Joe wrote a memoir - The book is a sort of “Kitchen Confidential” for the grocery business, but without the drugs or rage
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Stranded in Yemen’s war zone, a decaying supertanker has more than a million barrels of oil aboard. If—or when—it explodes or sinks, thousands may die.
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What happens when the experience of celebrity becomes universal?
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Can progressives be convinced that genetics matters?
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In the Afghanistan countryside, the endless killing of civilians turned women against the occupiers who claimed to be helping them
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Why is it so hard to be rational?
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Hou Yifan and the wait for chess’s first woman world champion
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My slightly unreal pandemic pregnancy
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Kyle Rittenhouse, American vigilante: After he killed two people in Kenosha, opportunists turned his case into a polarizing spectacle
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We’ve barely explored the darkest realm of the ocean. With rare-metal mining on the rise, we’re already destroying it.
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John Swartzwelder, sage of “The Simpsons”
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The last time a vaccine saved America
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The revolution in classic Tetris - A younger generation is utilizing the internet to master the NES game in months, surpassing milestones that previously took decades
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The collapse of Puerto Rico’s iconic telescope - The uncertain future of the Arecibo Observatory, and the end of an era in space science
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The race to dismantle forrmer US President Donald Trump’s immigration policies
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An understanding of Orwell's 1984 from someone who has never read it
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Is Substack the media future we want?
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The man who invented more than eight hundred iconic toys and games
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Inside the US Army’s warehouse full of Nazi art
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Crying in H Mart: Sobbing near the dry goods, I ask myself, “Am I even Korean anymore if there’s no one left in my life to call and ask which brand of seaweed we used to buy?"
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Shigeru Miyamoto wants to create a kinder world
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Dianne Feinstein’s missteps raise a painful age question among US Senate Democrats
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The Skeleton Lake - Genetic analysis of human remains found in the Himalayas has raised baffling questions about who these people were and why they were there
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The curse of the buried treasure - Two metal-detector enthusiasts discovered a Viking hoard. It was worth a fortune—but it became a nightmare.
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Taking back our privacy - Profile of Moxie Marlinspike, founder of Signal
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Why Facebook can't fix itself - The platform is overrun with hate speech and disinformation, but the company's strategy seems focused on managing perception of the problem instead of addressing it
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The race to redesign sugar
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The elusive peril of space junk - Millions of human artifacts circle the Earth. Can we clean them up before they cause a disaster?
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My mother and my motherland - Jiayang Fan on the struggles of growing up as a poor immigrant, and how her desperate attempt to protect her hospital-bound mother was repurposed as Chinese propaganda
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Who gets to vote in Florida?
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Ask Kim Kierkegaardashian: Worldly Goods vs. the Greater Good
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The ways that a cheese can go extinct, and the cheesemakers who are working to save them
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How the Simulmatics Corporation invented the future
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CyberBunker: The "bulletproof web hosting" company based in a German Cold War bunker that became a dark-web empire
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Hiroshima (1946)
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Slate Star Codex and Silicon Valley’s war against the media
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Our ghost-kitchen future
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Trump, Twitter, Facebook, and the future of online speech - The debate over censorship and Section 230 is thorny, contentious, and, above all, outdated
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The Walkman, forty years on
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A highly contagious, often lethal rabbit virus arrives in the United States
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The fight to redefine racism
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How the coronavirus could reshape architecture
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How do we change America?
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"Pursuit as Happiness", a previously unpublished short story by Ernest Hemingway
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How a raccoon became an aardvark
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Independent people - Iceland's approach to the coronavirus
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