Why are we in the West so weird? A theory
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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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The supply of disinformation will soon be infinite: Disinformation campaigns used to require a lot of human effort to be effective, but now artificial intelligence could take them to a whole new level
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How to be a mystical materialist
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Doesn’t feel like a recession? You should be paying more in taxes
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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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California El Dorado wildfire sparked by device to reveal baby's gender
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Why do you feel lonely? Neuroscience is starting to find answers
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Academics are really, really worried about their freedom
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Uber is hurting drivers like me in its legal fight in California
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Brazil hands out so much Covid cash that poverty nears a low
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Amazon drivers are hanging smartphones in trees to get more work
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Confessions of a former bastard cop
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Can child dolls keep pedophiles from offending? One man thinks so, and he’s been manufacturing them for clients for more than ten years.
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Mozilla: The greatest tech company left behind
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Disappearance of multiple Saudi Arabian dissidents tied to Twitter data accessed in 2015 by employees allegedly spying for the government
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Seeing around corners
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Sweatpants forever
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A newsroom at the edge of autocracy; The South China Morning Post is arguably the world’s most important newspaper for what it tells us about media freedoms as China’s power grows
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Safety lessons from the morgue
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Why can’t we just hold classes outdoors instead?
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Do we believe in UFOs? That’s the wrong question.
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How the Simulmatics Corporation invented the future
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Scientists are 3D printing miniature human organs to test coronavirus drugs
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On mob justice in Nigeria
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No longer in shadows, Pentagon’s UFO unit will make some findings public
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The great climate migration has begun
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Hiroshima (1946)
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Alone on a mountaintop, awaiting a very hard rain
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I have cancer and now my Facebook feed is full of "alternative care" ads
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Headaches top symptom for coronavirus, but only one third have any sign of illness
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Why is a tech executive installing security cameras around San Francisco?
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Sweden has become the world’s cautionary tale
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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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Do Americans understand how badly they’re doing?
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People complain that going to the shore is a careless act during a pandemic, but the science so far suggests otherwise
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How hotel quarantine let COVID-19 out of the bag in Victoria
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Imagine if the National Transportation Safety Board investigated America’s response to the coronavirus pandemic
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The fight to redefine racism
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Ballpark peanuts, a classic summer pleasure, have been benched
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You want a Confederate monument? My body is a Confederate monument (sexual assault trigger warning)
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Wrongfully accused by an algorithm
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Counter-espionage agency ASIO is conducting a sweeping investigation into allegations Chinese government agents have infiltrated the office of a NSW Labor politician to influence Australian politics
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Flirting for morons
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The pandemic’s worst-case scenario is unfolding in Brazil
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European Union may bar American travelers as it reopens borders, citing failures on virus
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How the coronavirus could reshape architecture
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Voguing for our lives. Again
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Shows of support for racial justice from social media giants like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube don’t address the way the platforms have been weaponized by racists and partisan provocateurs
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‘The Platform’ review: An accidentally timely political allegory
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