Fatigue can shatter a person: Everyday tiredness is nothing like the depleting symptom that people with long COVID and ME/CFS experience ~health Article 3479 words 65 votes
In the US, as the planet records some of its highest average temperatures, workers have barely any legal protections from extreme heat ~enviro climate change Article 1706 words 17 votes
Half of America’s banks are potentially insolvent – this is how a credit crunch begins ~finance banking Article 388 words 14 votes
Tesla sued over claims staff used cars’ cameras to spy on drivers ~transport Article 492 words 9 votes
Meta launching paid subscription service for Facebook, Instagram ~tech social media facebook Article 73 words 11 votes
Activision CEO Bobby Kotick knew for years about sexual-misconduct allegations at videogame giant ~games Article 67 words 10 votes
‘I think we should throw those books in a fire’: Movement builds on right to target books ~books Article 1351 words 17 votes
This tribe helped the Pilgrims survive for their first US Thanksgiving. They still regret it 400 years later. ~humanities.history Article 1774 words 8 votes
A battle among homeowners in Colorado shows how license plate scanners are reshaping American neighborhoods ~tech Article 3085 words, published Oct 22 2021 10 votes
Facebook is nearing a reputational point of no return ~tech facebook social media Article 669 words 13 votes
Housing in Alaska can’t survive climate change. This group is trying a new model. ~design architecture Article 2363 words, published Sep 24 2021 3 votes
Microsoft, Google, Facebook and other tech firms are pressing lawmakers to stop prosecutors from secretly snooping on private accounts ~tech microsoft google facebook privacy Article 2167 words 3 votes
For the United States, our constitutional crisis is already here ~misc politics Article 5721 words 19 votes
As women become 60% of all US college students and continue to outpace & outperform men, the WSJ takes a look at how colleges and students feel about it ~humanities education.higher Article 80 words, published Sep 6 2021 16 votes
Wuhan scientists planned to release coronaviruses into cave bats eighteen months before outbreak ~health Article 319 words 7 votes
Facebook knows Instagram is toxic for teen girls, company documents show ~life.women Article 62 words 16 votes
Australian musk ducks have the ability to call you a ‘bloody fool,’ research finds ~science biology Article 706 words 4 votes
Apple delays the rollout of its plans to scan iPhones for child exploitation images ~tech apple privacy Article 495 words 15 votes
These people who work from home have a secret: They have two jobs ~life work.remote Article 218 words, published Aug 13 2021 16 votes
Sex-toy makers Lovehoney and WOW Tech merge in $1.2 billion deal as lockdowns spur demand ~finance business Article 235 words 11 votes
Millions of coronavirus vaccine doses around the world face expiration ~health Article 1348 words 4 votes
Siberia’s wildfires are bigger than all the world’s other blazes combined ~enviro Article 1324 words 12 votes
Hollywood reaps the rewards of becoming more diverse: Films with a diverse cast tend to outperform the rest ~movies Article 623 words 9 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
After the Florida building collapse, condos struggle to fund big repairs ~engineering Article 2166 words 11 votes
Majority of Florida condo board quit in 2019 as squabbling residents dragged out plans for repairs ~engineering Article 1656 words 19 votes
Donald Rumsfeld, influential but controversial George W Bush defense secretary, dies at 88 ~news politics usa.il Article 620 words 12 votes
Joe Biden administration bars US imports of solar panels linked to forced labor in China’s Xinjiang region ~enviro energy.renewable Article 406 words 12 votes
Was Wilhelm Wundt a "Nazi"?: Volkerpsychologie, Racism and Anti-Semitism by Adrian Brock ~humanities.history Article 328 words 1 vote
Can astrology make sense of cryptocurrency? Maren Altman and a million TikTok followers think so. ~finance cryptocurrency Article 1362 words 7 votes
'Cool’ roofs, cooler designs as the building industry embraces energy sustainability ~enviro energy sustainability Article 1521 words 8 votes
US FBI secretly ran the An0m encrypted messaging platform, yields hundreds of arrests in global sting ~tech Article 249 words 7 votes
Motorists line up at stations in DC region; shortage of gas truck drivers compounds situation ~transport Article 923 words 6 votes
I am getting sick of writing these pieces to respond to people like Rick Santorum ~life Article 962 words 13 votes
China set to report first population decline in five decades ~news china Article 809 words, published Apr 27 2021 10 votes
Armed doesn't mean dangerous: Black gun owners are often portrayed negatively. One photographer set out to change that. ~arts photography Article 533 words 20 votes