Kids’ reading scores have soared in Deep South states
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‘This is real. We need to hide’: How the Allen mall shooting unfolded
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The last gamble of Tokyo Joe
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The rise of the "trauma essay" in college applications | Tina Yong
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From gross to gorgeous: The incredible restoration of a mould infested rug
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Snapshots from small-town Russia
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How Urban Company built an empire of female Indian gig workers
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The union debate over housing in California
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Welcome to America’s most elite girls boarding school. Let the hazing begin.
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The ‘open secret’ in most US workplaces: Discrimination against moms is still rampant
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Murhaf raises $230,000 selling charity flower pins in Sweden – sales skyrocket after a viral post about the boy, and a racist backlash, only brings in more money
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DIY ‘90s van to modern tiny house
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Life in Ny-Ålesund, the world's northern-most research station – in pictures
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How American HOAs became an unnecessary necessary evil
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Escorts are the ER doctors of relationships
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Swedish retirees demand fairer pensions for women – The Old Lady Patrol's protest against the country's pension system enters its tenth year
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Chile's Congress passes bill to cut workweek to forty hours
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Playing on the edge – football in Greenland
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I'm going to spend 12 days doing new things. Day 1: Town firsts
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An anonymous critic played cat and mouse with Beijing for twelve years. Then he got caught.
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Solitary confinement
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Across the whole of Europe, a lot of women are pregnant or have conceived children from sperm donors through Danish sperm banks
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More Swedish mothers are having babies after the age of forty-five than teenagers, new data from the Scandinavian country shows
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Residents of Greenland have switched to daylight saving time this weekend for the very last time
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Cold, remote and short of women – a portrait of life on the Faroe Islands
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Japan’s ‘evaporated’ people: Inside an industry that helps people disappear
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Job listings abound, but many are fake
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For the sixth year in a row, Finland is the world's happiest country, according to World Happiness Report rankings
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Legal expert Anna Singer is investigating whether Swedish authorities were aware of falsified child origins as they approved the adoptions of thousands of South Korean children
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Child labor laws are under attack in states across the country
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The reaction economy
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What is a fun or interesting fact about where you live?
Partly posting this because I love those little nuggets of local lore, and partly so I can share this local fact that I just discovered. My city's cathedral has this amazing double-bowl copper...
Partly posting this because I love those little nuggets of local lore, and partly so I can share this local fact that I just discovered.
My city's cathedral has this amazing double-bowl copper font (different angle here) which I had assumed was ancient - the cathedral is almost 1000 years old - but it turns out that until 1994 these bowls were being used at a local chocolate factory to make caramel to go inside Rolos and was gifted to the church when the factory closed.
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The Economist’s glass-ceiling index
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Why Japan is giving away eight million free houses
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'Landlords are a scum class': Everything I've learnt about London renting
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Party patellas: The knee makeup fad of the '20s and '60s
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Alone and exploited, migrant children work brutal jobs across the US
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The jock/nerd/prep/goth test
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How to offer help when you don’t know what to say
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100 days ago I built a terrarium and documented my little chunk of the desert. Watch as it transforms from a barren wasteland into a thriving ecosystem.
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The people who live inside airplanes
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When Leo Babler was born with a deadly genetic disorder his parents built an adventure van, and made sure their son experienced the most beautiful wild places in the country during the time they had
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A Black professor trapped in anti-racist hell
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Yale academic suggests mass suicide for Japan’s elderly
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University of California plans to deduct pay for employees who participated in strike
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Matteo Lane & Nick Smith go to the Museum of Sex
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Meet the man building a thousand wheelchair ramps in Iceland – Ramp Up Iceland aim to make everyday life less challenging for people with physical disabilities
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Crushed
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My company offers a stipend of $150/quarter to improve my home office
It's six months and I haven't spent it yet. What do I need that I don't realize I need? I already have multiple monitors, keyboards, etc. Separate headphones (that I don't use because I don't need...
It's six months and I haven't spent it yet.
What do I need that I don't realize I need?
I already have multiple monitors, keyboards, etc. Separate headphones (that I don't use because I don't need to shut the door often), microphone (doesn't make a difference), and other obvious tech toys. I bought a new UPS right before I started the job.
It's a nice problem to have: "I don't need anything." But surely I should spend money on SOMEthing?
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Denmark to grant asylum to all women and girls from Afghanistan
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