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African Swine Fever Is Spreading Fast and Eliminating It Will Take Decades
Half of the world’s pigs are in China. By Jason Gale, Hannah Dormido, Adrian Leung.
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How Boeing’s Bean-Counters Courted the 737 MAX Disaster
Just when the smallest jet should have been replaced with a new model, the company fell into tight-fisted hands—with fatal consequences. By Clive Irving.
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Triton is the world’s most murderous malware, and it’s spreading
When the Australian security consultant Julian Gutmanis was summoned to a petrochemical plant in Saudi Arabia in the summer of 2017, what he found made his blood run cold. By Martin Giles. (Mar. 5, 2019)
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This Company Says The Future Of Nuclear Energy Is Smaller, Cheaper And Safer
Nuclear power plants are so big, complicated and expensive to build that more are shutting down than opening up. An Oregon company, NuScale Power, wants to change that trend by building nuclear plants that are the opposite of existing ones: smaller, simpler and cheaper.
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What if Iran Retaliates and Shuts Down the Strait of Hormuz?
Some 18 million barrels of oil transit through every day. The economic impact would be catastrophic. By Scott Ritter.
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Permafrost collapse is accelerating carbon release
The sudden collapse of thawing soils in the Arctic might double the warming from greenhouse gases released from tundra, warn Merritt R. Turetsky and colleagues.
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How Rupert Murdoch’s Empire of Influence Remade the World: Part 1: Imperial Reach
Murdoch and his children have toppled governments on two continents and destabilized the most important democracy on Earth. What do they want?
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Five Women on What It's Actually Like to Have Universal Health Care
Women in Canada, Iceland, Taiwan, Australia, and the UK talk about their universal health care systems. By Clio Chang.
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When will global warming make the earth uninhabitable?
When tropical forests become firestorms and the Sahara turns green. By David Wallace-Wells.
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A Meteor More Powerful Than 10 Atomic Bombs Exploded Over the Bering Sea
The December 18 fireball created the biggest airburst since the Chelyabinsk meteor of 2013. By Becky Ferreira.
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The Tunguska event
That disastrous rock may now look to have been a Beta Taurid passenger. By Robby Berman.
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On Being a Woman in America While Trying to Avoid Being Assaulted
I, for instance, elect to walk on certain streets, not others. The elevator doors slide open, and there’s one man inside: I evaluate his size against mine, calculating how well, if I had to, I could fight him off. I check the backseat of my car before getting in, just to make sure no one’s waiting there. I don’t leave my drink unattended. By R. O. Kwon.
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The Cab Ride That Nearly Killed Me Changed How I Think About Ride-Hailing Apps
Singapore, like every big city, has been overrun with new car service apps. By Yoolim Lee.
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The Might-Have-Been
"The day I found out I was pregnant, I installed an app on my phone that guesstimated — in exclusively fruit and vegetable comparisons — the size of my might-be child. My pregnancy made it from the size of a sweet pea to the size of a blueberry, and during that time I kept a wire-bound journal with “Sweet Pea” written on the cover." By Kristen.
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Trump’s Chances in 2020 Are Better Than You Think
We underestimated him once. Let’s not do it again. By Matt Taibbi.
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The science of self-care: How climate researchers are coping with the U.N. report
Climate scientists live in a world that’s still caught between where we are and where we need to be. By Eric Holthaus.
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Facebook Censors Art Historian for Posting Nude Art, Then Boots Him from Platform
Ruben Cordova used his social media profile as an archive of his research, but his photos of the Met Breuer's Like Life exhibition triggered Facebook's censors, who then permanently disabled his profile. By Zachary Small.
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The people who moved to Chernobyl
The Chernobyl nuclear disaster left a ring of ghost villages as residents fled fearing radiation poisoning. But now people are choosing to live in the crumbling houses on the edge of the exclusion zone. By Zhanna Bezpiatchuk.
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Are We Prepared for the Zombie Apocalypse? Actually, Yes
The U.S. military has a detailed plan to save the living, or at least outlast the dead. By Stephen L. Carter.
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What Happened At The Santa Susana Nuclear Site During The Woolsey Fire?
The site is riddled with radioactive waste and toxic compounds. Where does it all go during a fire? By Elina Shatkin
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