Post Overview
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Expression
7 years ago+8 8 0One Tweet Perfectly Sums Up What Everyone Is Missing About The Istanbul Terrorist Attacks
Shockingly on-point.
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Analysis
7 years ago+16 16 0Where ‘Not in My Backyard’ Prevails, Equality Does Not
A growing body of economic literature suggests that efforts in America aimed at things like “maintaining neighborhood character” contribute to segregation and lead to stagnation.
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Analysis
7 years ago+31 31 0Meet the ‘rented white coats’ who defend toxic chemicals
How corporate-funded research is corrupting America’s courts and regulatory agencies.
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Expression
7 years ago+33 33 0Claim that jet stream crossing equator is ‘climate emergency’ is utter nonsense
These shrill claims have no validity — air flow between the hemispheres occurs routinely. The claims are unsupported and unscientific, and they demonstrate the danger of wild assertions made by non-experts reaching and misleading the masses.
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Review
7 years ago+7 7 0What’s the Best Mosquito Repellent?
Because getting bit bites.
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Expression
7 years ago+9 9 0John Mayer on Playing With Dead & Company: 'It's Like Catching Air'
Guitarist discusses group's current tour, how he learned there was more to the Dead than "noodling"
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How-to
7 years ago+7 7 0Still Want to Get the News on Facebook? Read All About It
Since Facebook detailed its plans to put higher priority on content shared by friends and family, many have asked how to keep seeing the news they love in their feeds. Here’s how to do that, if you're interested.
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Expression
7 years ago+25 25 0This Won’t Be the Last Self-Driving-Car Death
Officials are currently investigating the first fatal Tesla accident.
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Interactive
7 years ago+4 4 0Interactive Map of U.S. River Systems
Made with data available from the U.S. Geological Service and the EPA.
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Expression
7 years ago+20 20 0 x 1The History of Barcelona, in 26 Interactive Maps
Watch the city evolve from 150 A.D. to 2010.
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Current Event
7 years ago+7 7 0Transgender People Will Be Allowed to Serve Openly in Military
Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter on Thursday removed one of the final barriers to military service by lifting the Pentagon’s ban on transgender people serving openly in the armed forces. The decision pushes forward a transformation of the military ...
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Analysis
7 years ago+23 23 0 x 1The Artificial Intelligence Revolution
Part 1 of 2: "The Road to Superintelligence". Artificial Intelligence — the topic everyone in the world should be talking about.
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Review
7 years ago+11 11 0"W" Is for "Why"
A new biography exposes the mysterious confidence behind George W. Bush’s greatest failures.
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Expression
7 years ago+5 5 0The sky's no limit: unusual uses for urban roof space – in pictures
From detached houses to running tracks to bee keeping, the scarcity of space in world cities means innovative uses are found for otherwise wasted rooftops. (Gallery)
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Current Event
7 years ago+34 34 0Your Favorite Childhood Video Games Are Now Transit Maps
Metroid, Final Fantasy, and Zelda, all mapped out like your neighborhood metro.
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Analysis
7 years ago+27 27 0The New Yorker, BuzzFeed, and the push for digital credibility
The fragmented nature of the digital landscape has created a conundrum for magazines and other news outlets. Being seen as reliable is crucial to a news organization’s survival. But if readers are finding stories in every corner of the Web, and may n ...
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Analysis
7 years ago+11 11 0Who got rich off the student debt crisis
A generation ago, Congress privatized a student loan program intended to give more Americans access to higher education. In its place, lawmakers created another profit center for Wall Street and a system of college finance that has fed the nation’s c ...
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Current Event
7 years ago+21 21 0Apple granted patent for way to stop iPhones from taking photos at concerts or sensitive locations
One of the things that really spoils live concerts these days is that half the people there don’t seem to want to watch it live at all – they’d rather watch it through their phone screen, holding the device up and blocking the view of those behind th ...
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Expression
7 years ago+12 12 0Why America's Business Majors Are in Desperate Need of a Liberal-Arts Education
Their degrees may help them secure entry-level jobs, but to advance in their careers, they’ll need much more than technical skills.
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Current Event
7 years ago+57 57 0 x 1Explosions hit main airport in Istanbul
Two explosions hit Istanbul's main international airport on Tuesday, wounding several people, a Turkish official said, in what appeared to be the latest in a string of attacks in Turkey's biggest city this year.