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Facebook and Twitter take unusual steps to limit spread of New York Post story ~tech facebook social media Article 1551 words 16 votes
Elon Musk announced Tesla is cutting the price of the Model S the same day competitor Lucid Motors revealed the price of its cheaper Air sedan ~transport Article 379 words 15 votes
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A libertarian walks into a bear: The utopian plot to liberate an American town (and some bears) ~humanities Article 3262 words 11 votes
Details emerge of new right-wing coup plot in Bolivia ~news bolivia politics Article 494 words 9 votes
As states prepared mail-in ballots, US Postal Service failed to update at least 1.8 million addresses ~society politics Article published Sep 28 2020 5 votes
What are we so afraid of? – Tony Green, on dismissing, denying, contracting and spreading the coronavirus ~health Article 1634 words, published Oct 10 2020 19 votes
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Private firefighting crews in California spark conflict after alleged illegal backfires in Glass Fire ~enviro Article 1146 words 4 votes
The West’s infernos are melting our sense of how fire works ~enviro natural disasters Article 6770 words 9 votes
How do you switch to a four-day week? The pros and cons ~life work Article 1232 words, published Oct 5 2020 6 votes
How Andrea Ghez won the Nobel for an experiment nobody thought would work ~science Article 967 words 6 votes
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Eli Lilly says its monoclonal antibody cocktail is effective in treating Covid-19 ~health medicine Article 484 words 7 votes
US Presdient Donald Trump’s antibody treatment was tested using fetal cells obtained through abortion ~health medicine Article 588 words 18 votes
Nobel Prize in chemistry goes to discovery of ‘genetic scissors’ called CRISPR/Cas9 by Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna ~science chemistry Article 1049 words 13 votes
A doctor gave me an inept diagnosis for a neurological problem. I should know: I’m a neurologist ~health healthcare medicine Article 1296 words 13 votes
Wild pigs are running rampant—and doing billions of dollars of damage each year ~enviro Article 1929 words, published Sep 19 2020 7 votes
Joe Biden can end the drama on election night. All he has to do is win Texas. ~news politics usa.tx Article 1873 words 13 votes
Find air quality near your exact location ~enviro climate change pollution.air Article 678 words 7 votes
HBO's 'The Wire' inspired a fake turtle egg that spies on poachers ~enviro Article 1433 words 7 votes
Lengthy era of rock-bottom interest rates leaving its mark on US economy ~finance economics Article 1808 words 10 votes
YouTubers are upscaling the past to 4K. Historians want them to stop ~tech social media Article 1364 words 9 votes
St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Famer Bob Gibson dies at 84 after bout with cancer ~sports.baseball Article 1275 words 6 votes
Breonna Taylor US Grand Jury recording released ~news crime usa.ky.louisville Article 490 words 10 votes
Wendy Carlos’s music of the spheres ~music electronic Article 4313 words, published Sep 10 2020 5 votes
The NHL's bubble playoffs conclude without a single COVID case ~sports.hockey Article 862 words 15 votes
Postal Service workers quietly resist DeJoy’s changes with eye on election ~news usa politics Article 3055 words 16 votes
What Jim Crow taught the Nazis: In the 1930s, the Nazi regime were fascinated by the global leader in codified race law — the United States ~humanities.history Article 1541 words, published Oct 3 2017 9 votes