I spent months living with smart glasses. People talk to me differently now.
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Nihilistic online networks groom minors to commit harm. Her son was one of them.
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‘I feel like I’ve been lied to’: When a measles outbreak hits home
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My expensive, exhausting, happy failed attempt at homesteading
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If you ever stacked cups in gym class blame my dad
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My shipwreck story
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How Counter-Strike took over my life
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Georgia woman shares how she survived three weeks lost in the California Sierra Nevada mountains
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Eddy Burback chronicles his month without a phone
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Stoop coffee: How a simple idea transformed my neighborhood
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My sixteen-month theanine self-experiment
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I used to teach students. Now I catch ChatGPT cheats.
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An unlikely survival story in the depths of the North Sea inspired a documentary and now a thriller
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The year I didn’t survive
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Jailed for four years for a non-violent climate protest – this is my prison diary
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I was a content moderator for Facebook. I saw the real cost of outsourcing digital labour.
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History, memory, grief and belonging: my bittersweet Goodison farewell
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Should I stay or should I go now?
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A decade without a drink
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‘Mild’ tofu, ‘mild’ carrots, ‘mild’ pine nuts: my five-year quest to understand German taste
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Our US disaster recovery system must evolve to respond more effectively to climate change
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Following a family mystery to Iceland's remotest village – in his grandfather's footsteps, Oliver Smith heads to a tiny off-grid community at the tip of the Hornstrandir peninsula
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We only learnt of our son’s secret online life after he died at 20
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I quit teaching because of ChatGPT
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Uber almost got me killed!
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Why I’ve tracked every single piece of clothing I’ve worn for three years
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'I don’t want to die.' He needed mental health care. He found a ghost network.
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I've been to all fifty states, and I've unexpectedly fallen in love with these seven cities
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I walked away from my job as a queer educator
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Personally protecting a piece of prairie
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I went to Iceland for a road trip. I left with climate anxiety.
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Looking for alternatives to flying, Matilda Welin decided to embark on a long-distance cycle from London to Sweden. Here's what she learned.
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The lights don’t just go out: A lifelong fainter on how fiction gets fainting all wrong
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The best and brightest don’t want to stay in Canada. I should know: I’m one of the few in my engineering class who did.
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I was an MIT educated neurosurgeon. Now I'm unemployed and alone in the mountains. How did I get here?
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The time I built an ROV to solve missing person cases
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What my adult autism diagnosis finally explained
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The Donald Trump I saw on The Apprentice
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Things the guys who stole my phone have texted me to try to get me to unlock it
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What my dog taught me about mortality
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'I was misidentified as shoplifter by facial recognition tech'
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Weighing in on "Man or Bear" - from a woman that left society to the Alaskan wilderness
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I gave up meat and gained so much more | A tale of one person's life, culture, and growing up
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The parents in my classroom
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I was the poster girl for OCD. Then I began to question everything I’d been told about mental illness.
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Chinese woman in Beijing goes on one hundred blind dates per year
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Concussion treatment: the insidious myth about resting protocols that even doctors still believe
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What I did when my art got stolen (I got help from lawyers and posted on social media)
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I always knew I was different. I just didn’t know I was a sociopath.
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Reinventing myself at 55: From commando to interior designer to miniature artist
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