How to design a sailing ship for the 21st century?
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The filing cabinet was critical to the information infrastructure of the 20th-century. Like most infrastructure, it was usually overlooked.
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Introducing the pervert’s dilemma: A contribution to the critique of deepfake pornography
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The sixty-year-old scientific screwup that helped Covid kill
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Why Confederate lies live on
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The sixty-year-old scientific screwup that helped Covid kill
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Nothingness (Why is there something rather than nothing?)
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MDMA-assisted therapy for severe PTSD: A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled phase 3 study
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China’s ruling Communist Party has opened a new front in its long, ambitious war to shape global public opinion: Western social media
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On the record: An audio professional’s take on vinyl
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Lincoln's great depression
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Bertrand Russell’s ‘scientific’ philosophy was a bulwark against nationalism
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If correlation doesn’t imply causation, then what does?
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Looking back on the George Floyd rebellion
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The existence of God and the beginning of the universe
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EFF Surveillance Self-Defense - Privacy breakdown of mobile phones
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Why did it take so long to accept the facts about Covid?
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Impossible Worlds
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In a grief-filled year, brands from Etsy to Pandora let you skip Mother's Day emails
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On incels, dead bedrooms and the hard problems of loneliness
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The Paradox of Fiction
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The Sopranos: Pine Barrens oral history
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They told their therapists everything. Hackers leaked it all.
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Madhouse at the End of the Earth: A brief history of people losing their minds in Antarctica
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Building a galaxy: The story of the Star Wars Expanded Universe
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Have you ever tried to sell a diamond?
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The plan to kill Osama bin Laden—from the spycraft to the assault to its bizarre political backdrop—as told by the people in the room
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What3Words - The algorithm used to generate its geocodes, and issues with it that result in ambiguous locations being common
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John Swartzwelder, sage of “The Simpsons”
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Unlocking history through automated virtual unfolding of sealed documents imaged by X-ray microtomography
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Master criminal Rédoine Faïd loved the movies, and his greatest crimes were laced with tributes. When he landed in a maximum-security prison, cinema provided inspiration for his escape.
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Practical SQL for data analysis
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Book review: Are We Smart Enough To Know How Smart Animals Are?
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In the tales told by sewage, public health and privacy collide
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A community of 3D graphics hobbyists are making and selling avatars of real people in order to fulfill their sexual fantasies, and there's little anyone can do to stop them
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Field notes: Miami
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A summary of the book "Why Nuclear Power Has Been a Flop" by Jack Devanney
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Living nonbinary in a binary sports world
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They hacked McDonald’s ice cream machines—and started a cold war
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Our miserable 21st century
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‘It’s going to end up like Boeing’: How freight rail is courting catastrophe
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The Polish doctors who used science to outwit the Nazis
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Book review: Progress and Poverty by Henry George
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Nothing breaks like AI heart - An interactive essay about artificial intelligence, emotional intelligence, and finding an ending
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Relative student ability is remarkably static and predictable from pre-K to college and beyond
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A look at Próspera, the charter city taking shape in Honduras
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Why I’ve tracked every single piece of clothing I’ve worn for three years
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The shape of Rome
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Unwanted touch and empty consent
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Multimodal Neurons in Artificial Neural Networks
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