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The next front in the India-China conflict could be a canal across southern Thailand’s Kra Isthmus ~news india china thailand Article 1289 words 8 votes
Apple adds cycling routes and EV charging stations to Maps in iOS 14 ~transport Article 409 words 11 votes
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Multiple US court rulings have found Amazon responsible for defects in products sold by third-party merchants ~finance business Article 2117 words 6 votes
California Governor Gavin Newsom: By this point last year, 4,292 fires had burned 56,000 acres. This year, 7,002 fires have chewed through more than 1.4 million acres. ~enviro Article 1509 words, published Aug 24 2020 7 votes
National Hurricane Center nailed track forecast for Laura within a mile and three days in advance ~enviro Article 858 words 9 votes
The value of extended families ~life family.nuclear parenting Article 9480 words, published Mar 28 2020 6 votes
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Home ownership is the West’s biggest economic-policy mistake. It is an obsession that undermines growth, fairness and public faith in capitalism leaders ~finance economics Article 1071 words, published Jan 16 2020 23 votes
97,000 people got convalescent plasma. Who knows if it works? ~health medicine Article 3165 words 7 votes
A math problem stumped experts for fifty years. This grad student from Maine solved it in days ~science mathematics Article 2246 words, published Aug 20 2020 19 votes
Inside Roblox's war on porn - The game platform is extremely popular with children, and the company is waging an endless fight against "condo games": explicit, often sex-themed user creations ~games Article 4441 words 19 votes
How a plan to save the power system disappeared: A federal lab found a way to modernize the grid, reduce reliance on coal, and save consumers billions. Then Trump appointees blocked it ~enviro energy.renewable Article 3530 words 24 votes
Hangover cure successfully tested on drunk subjects in Finland – dose of 1,200 milligrams of amino acid L-cysteine was found to reduce alcohol-related nausea and headache ~science chemistry Article 20 votes
Vanguard is outsourcing recordkeeping work, along with 1,300 of its workforce, to Infosys ~finance business Article 841 words 11 votes
How men’s rights groups helped rewrite regulations on campus rape ~life education.higher Article 4701 words, published Aug 14 2020 6 votes
Disappearance of multiple Saudi Arabian dissidents tied to Twitter data accessed in 2015 by employees allegedly spying for the government ~tech social media privacy Article 7 votes
The Bush-Gore recount is an omen for 2020: An oral history of the craziest presidential election in modern US history ~humanities.history Article 10 883 words 16 votes
The hard problem of breakfast — How does it emerge from bacon and eggs? ~humanities philosophy Article 1367 words, published Aug 5 2020 3 votes
How to think like an epidemiologist ~science statistics Article 2341 words, published Aug 4 2020 6 votes
The recession is over for the rich, but the working class is far from recovered ~finance economics Article 2019 words 7 votes