The asteroid-in-spring hypothesis - Two paleontologists have turned on each other, each claiming to have found new evidence about the worst day on Earth ~science Article 11 226 words, published Aug 27 2024 8 votes
MH370 and the sea creatures that opened a new mystery ~science biology.marine Article 2225 words, published Mar 7 2024 17 votes
A US drugmaker’s feud with the DEA is exacerbating the ADHD meds crisis ~health.mental Article 2737 words 36 votes
No, aliens haven’t visited the Earth. Why are so many smart people insisting otherwise? ~space Article 6928 words, published Jan 31 2024 29 votes
Over three decades, tech obliterated media - my front-row seat to a slow-moving catastrophe ~tech Article 4523 words 22 votes
Inventing the perfect US college applicant – For $120,000 a year, Christopher Rim promises to turn any student into Ivy bait ~life education.higher Article 7418 words, published Jan 29 2024 23 votes
US FDA officials took months to inspect a critical plant in Europe, leaving Americans without shots as mpox spreads ~health medicine Article 1286 words, published Jul 8 2022 9 votes
13,000 pounds at 118 miles per hour: It was the deadliest wreck in years. And the man behind it was one of the FBI’s most notorious informants. ~humanities.history Article 7988 words, published Jan 19 2022 18 votes
What happened in Colorado was something much scarier than a wildfire ~enviro climate change Article 4911 words 14 votes
There's nothing to do except gamble - NFTs, SPACs, and the future of money ~finance economics Article 2028 words, published Apr 12 2021 6 votes
The lab-leak hypothesis—for decades, scientists have been hot-wiring viruses in hopes of preventing a pandemic, not causing one. But what if …? ~health Article 2597 words, published Jan 4 2021 18 votes
The full(est possible) story of the Four Seasons Total Landscaping press conference ~news politics usa Article 11 votes
Why has the Republican response to the pandemic in the USA been so mind-bogglingly disastrous? ~health Article 5852 words 11 votes
The coming disruption - Scott Galloway predicts a handful of elite universities and tech companies will soon monopolize higher education ~humanities education.higher Article 2536 words, published May 11 2020 6 votes
The GOP is the problem. Is ‘human identity politics’ the solution? (Book review of Ezra Klein’s 'Why We’re Polarized') ~books reviews Article 3814 words 9 votes
I got a Ring doorbell camera. It scared the hell out of me. ~tech amazon privacy security.home Article 1905 words, published Feb 13 2020 11 votes
The sun sets on We - The story of WeWork's IPO postponement and CEO ouster ~finance business Article 11 votes
'At what point does malfeasance become fraud?’: NYU Biz-School Professor Scott Galloway on WeWork ~finance business Article 4 votes
Greed, drugs, dirty cops, and the bitter sibling rivalry burning up the $800 million Louisiana family dynasty of Knight Oil Tools ~finance business Article published Jun 27 2019 8 votes
The I in we - How did WeWork’s Adam Neumann turn office space with “community” into a $47 billion company? Not by sharing. ~finance business Article published Jun 10 2019 4 votes
How an Aquafresh parody Tumblr got swept up in a hate-speech purge ~tech social media Article 1240 words 7 votes
The five families of feces - The porta-potty business is as dirty as you’d think. But one man keeps coming up smelling like roses. ~finance business Article 3745 words 7 votes
Ocasio-Cortez’s seventy percent top tax rate is a moderate, evidence-based policy ~finance Article 652 words 23 votes
Children of Ted - Two decades after his last deadly act of ecoterrorism, the Unabomber has become an unlikely prophet to a new generation of acolytes ~humanities.history Article 667 words, published Dec 11 2018 9 votes
The internet apologizes …Even those who designed our digital world are aghast at what they created. A breakdown of what went wrong — from the architects who built it. ~tech internet Article 2606 words, published Apr 13 2018 32 votes
Two cheers for socialism: Why liberals need enemies on the left ~society politics Article 4233 words 14 votes
David Hogg, after Parkland. Furious and unflinching, an NRA enemy, an accused “crisis actor,” and a high-school grad trying to figure out what’s next ~life Article 7218 words, published Aug 20 2018 8 votes
The city born in a day: The origin story of Oklahoma City ~humanities.history Article 4008 words 5 votes
Democrats should get real with White working-class voters ~society politics Article 927 words 13 votes
I don’t know how to waste time on the internet anymore ~tech internet facebook social media Article 888 words, published May 14 2018 19 votes