Sophie Zhang risked everything to expose how Facebook enables global political manipulation. Now she’s telling her story. ~tech facebook social media Article 3493 words 14 votes
Is Glenn Greenwald the new master of right-wing media? ~news journalism Article 3681 words, published Jun 2 2021 6 votes
Big Oil’s solution for plastic waste littered with failure ~enviro recycling plastics Article 3372 words 10 votes
How the long-dead public-television painter Bob Ross became a streaming phenomenon (and kicked up plenty of dirt in the process) ~tv Article 3302 words 9 votes
For decades, poppers have been the go-to sex drug for gay men. But where do they come from? ~lgbt Article 4272 words 16 votes
Whitney Houston, American girl: Why America embraced Whitney Houston, and how it destroyed her ~music Article 4039 words, published Jul 8 2021 3 votes
An interview with air-quality specialist Sarah Coefield about wildfire smoke, ventilation, long-term effects on health, and more ~enviro pollution.air Article 3273 words 5 votes
Sucks to be him! How Henry the vacuum cleaner became an accidental design icon ~design Article 3435 words, published Jul 24 2021 10 votes
What we still don't know about Emmett Till's murder ~humanities.history Article 7545 words, published Jul 22 2021 2 votes
Kevin Smith made Netflix’s ‘Masters of the Universe: Revelation’ specifically to please ‘He-Man’ fans. Some got mad anyway ~tv Article 3061 words 7 votes
Hou Yifan and the wait for chess’s first woman world champion ~games.tabletop Article 5568 words, published Jul 23 2021 4 votes
Forensic science can be a powerful crime-fighting tool, but misdeeds, dubious methodologies, and bogus claims threaten its reputation—and the reputation of science as a whole ~science chemistry Article 3792 words, published Jul 13 2021 7 votes
Ethical behaviourism and the moral risks of human-robot relationships ~humanities philosophy ethics Article 6183 words 4 votes
How Twitter can ruin a life: The story of Isabel Fall ~lgbt transgender Article 6030 words, published Jun 21 2021 19 votes
Did Twitter break young adult fiction? ~books fiction.young adult Article 5660 words, published Jul 2 2021 10 votes
The prison and detention camps built for Muslims in the Xinjiang region of China have enough room to detain over one million people ~humanities religion Article 3166 words 18 votes
First it was an Assassin's Creed expansion, now it's Ubisoft's eight year nightmare ~games Article 3593 words 7 votes
Sophisticated exploits used to breach fully-patched iPhones of journalists, activists, as detailed by Amnesty International's Security Lab ~tech apple security.cyber Article 7008 words 24 votes
The privacy war raging within the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), where normally-secretive tech companies are wrangling over the future of your data — and their own power — in plain sight ~tech privacy Article 4991 words, published Jul 13 2021 14 votes
Women's gymnastics is blasting into the future, but its scoring code is stuck in the past ~sports Article 5577 words 6 votes
"One by one, all my friends were sent to the camps" - A first-hand account of a Uyghur Muslim whose family escaped China ~life Article 1528 words 13 votes
Common Ground, Part I: How organic and regenerative agriculture are revitalizing rural Montana economies ~enviro Article 4522 words, published Jul 6 2021 7 votes
Kaspersky Password Manager had multiple problems in its password-generator, resulting in its passwords being predictable and easily brute-forced ~comp security Article 3475 words, published Jul 6 2021 21 votes
Black snow: To harvest America’s cane sugar, billion-dollar companies set fire to fields, a money-saving practice that’s being banned by other countries ~enviro pollution.air Article 6981 words 12 votes
Kristen Roupenian’s viral story draws specific details from my own life. I’ve spent the years since it published wondering: How did she know? ~life relationships Article 4122 words 10 votes
Why geothermal isn't ubiquitous and how it might get that way ~enviro energy.renewable Article 3857 words 5 votes
The invisible addiction: Caffeine makes us more energetic, efficient and faster. But we have become so dependent that we need it just to get to our baseline. ~health Article 3868 words 25 votes
Can we survive extreme heat? ~enviro climate change Article 6096 words, published Aug 27 2019 8 votes
The ‘Men’s Liberation’ movement time forgot: Nowadays, the Men’s Rights movement runs the gamut from incels to red pillers, but in the 1970s, men's libbers looked something like… feminists? ~life.men Article 3377 words 11 votes
Britney Spears' conservatorship nightmare: How the pop star's father and a team of lawyers seized control of her life - and have held on to it for thirteen years ~music pop Article 11 257 words 14 votes
What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? ~humanities.history Article 10 509 words, published Jul 5 1852 12 votes
Why Google Play’s APK replacement is scaring some security experts ~tech security google.play Article 4480 words 15 votes
Neurotype-matching, but not being autistic, influences self and observer ratings of interpersonal rapport ~science Article 7059 words 12 votes
The Internet Is Rotting - The glue that holds humanity’s knowledge together is coming undone ~comp Article 6493 words 9 votes
Exxon lobbyist shares parts of their playbook with reporter on camera ~enviro climate change Article 3374 words 5 votes