The Sky Thief - How did Beebo Russell — a goofy, God-fearing baggage handler — steal a passenger plane from the Seattle-Tacoma airport and end up alone in a cockpit, with no plan to come down?
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History as end: 1619, 1776, and the politics of the past
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The story of Lee Holloway: The decline of a brilliant young coder
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Scientists and economists sold Karl Popper’s ‘falsification’ idea to the world. They have much to answer for
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What it’s like to be cancelled
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An exploration of the types of subclassing and when inheritance is a good choice compared to composition, through the lens of Python
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Electric vehicles won’t save us: Why EV’s are false prophets in the fight for a better world
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The internet feeds on its own dying dreams
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The private language argument
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Rehab scam: Defendants in court-ordered rehab program made to work in chicken plants for free
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Kill the five-day workweek
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Truth and Native American epistemology
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Troubled US teens left traumatised by tough love camps
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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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Gulfport police killed Leonard Parker, a Black veteran. His family waits for answers over one year later.
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At 15, he shot and killed his parents, two classmates at his school, and wounded twenty-five others. He’s been used as the reason to lock kids up for life ever since.
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I am an object of internet ridicule, ask me anything
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You ain’t never been no little girl, Taylor Townsend
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Slow news is good news
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Why Confederate lies live on
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Attempting to use a software engineering approach to win at chess against my brother—and only my brother
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When Brayden Bushby was charged with the death of Barbara Kentner, Indigenous faith in Canada’s legal system was put to the test
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The secret IRS files: Trove of never-before-seen records reveal how the wealthiest Americans avoid income tax
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Once a bastion of US free speech, the ACLU faces an identity crisis
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A first lesson in meta-rationality
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Woman in the woods: A study of resilience in does and other female creatures
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The tyranny of time
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The end of "The End of San Francisco"
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The protagonist problem
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Heat List - Chicago PD automated policing program got this man shot twice
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What is Asian American music, really? Seeking more than representation, a critic tries to make sense of a fragmented, disparate musical tradition
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The rise and fall of Cheat Ninja, the group that made more than $70 million selling cheats for PUBG Mobile before being taken down by the Chinese police
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America has a drinking problem
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Chinese dreams on Native American land: A tale of cannabis boom and bust
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Masculinity attitudes across rural, suburban, and urban areas in the United States
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When people around you are suddenly forced to confront race - Watching white people. The year’s dark comedy of manners.
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The nonmachinables
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What is truth?
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At least forty-four Fort Bragg soldiers died stateside in 2020 — several of them were homicides. Families want answers. But the Army isn’t giving any
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Semantics and understanding
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Why Black cops quit - “The ‘Blue Wall of Silence’ is so real and so pervasive that people outside of it don’t have a clue of what it’s like,” one former officer told VICE News
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A death in cryptoland - The investigation into the collapse of Canadian cryptocurrency exchange QuadrigaCX after the sudden death of its CEO Gerald Cotten
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A theory of creepiness
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App Store arguments
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"What has been happening across the arts is not a recession. It is not even a depression. It is a catastrophe."
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Choosing a school in a segregated city
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Qualia
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The abolition of work
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A teenager's guide to avoiding actual work
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Fifty years years of text games: LambdaMOO (1990)
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