Post Overview
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Analysis
11 years ago
+16 16 0The Spelling Bee: America’s Great Racial Freaks-and-Geeks Show
When the public tunes in to see Indian Americans dominate the Scripps competition, is it to cheer for the precocious minority kids—or to gawk at them?
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Review
11 years ago
+26 26 0The Secret Life of an Obsessive Airbnb Host
Determined to quit his tired government job, one D.C. office drone saves $25,000 by renting his apartment nightly and secretly sleeping on the office floor.
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Current Event
11 years ago
+16 16 0Cable companies bankroll fake consumer groups to end net neutrality
Internet fast lane debate is latest battleground in storied ISP astroturf saga.
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Analysis
11 years ago
+31 31 0Tetris Is 30 Years Old Today
So here are 30 things to know about everyone's favorite Soviet-themed time suck.
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Analysis
11 years ago
+14 14 0The Profound Contradiction of Saving Private Ryan
Steven Spielberg's D-Day epic is a brutal, unpatriotic portrait of war—except for the notoriously sappy prologue and epilogue. What was the film really trying to say?
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Current Event
11 years ago
+18 18 0Web browsing is copyright infringement, publishers argue
Thankfully, European top court rules against the publishers'
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Current Event
11 years ago
+18 18 0Still reeling from Heartbleed, OpenSSL suffers from crypto bypass flaw
Bug in crypto library strips away one of the Internet's most crucial protections.
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Analysis
11 years ago
+15 15 0The Bizarre 1930s Trend of Men Wearing Bat Wings Jumping Out of Airplanes
By chance or otherwise, The Dark Knight's 1939 arrival coincided with public interest in real winged daredevils who attempted superhuman feats without superpowers.
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Analysis
11 years ago
+16 16 0A Rare Look Inside the Air Force’s Drone Training Classroom
The technology of war is changing, but the fundamental conflict is the same.
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Analysis
11 years ago
+30 30 0A 1990s Guide to 'Cyber Dating'
"One of the most bizarre aspects of the growing cyberlife is the number of couples who meet, fall in love, even get married online."
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Current Event
11 years ago
+3 4 1Reading Rainbow Rises From the Millennial Nostalgia Graveyard
LeVar Burton has started a Kickstarter campaign to revive the program—and it's going pretty well so far.
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Analysis
11 years ago
+4 4 0The Revolution Will Be Adorable: Why Google's Cars Are So Cute
The future of transportation, as imagined by the company, involves driverless car(toon)s.
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Image
11 years ago
+15 15 0World War I in Photos: Aerial Warfare
One hundred years ago, in the summer of 1914, a series of events set off an unprecedented global conflict that ultimately claimed the lives of more than 16 million people, dramatically redrew the maps of Europe, and set the stage for the 20th Century ...
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How-to
11 years ago
+38 38 0How to Freeze People and Bring Them Back to Life
Doctors in Pittsburgh are beginning the first-ever human trials of "suspended animation" among gunshot victims with potentially fatal injuries.
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Analysis
11 years ago
+17 17 0Is Herbalife a Pyramid Scheme?
Wall Street’s $6 billion mystery: Big investors are making opposite bets about the company’s future.
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Analysis
11 years ago
+19 19 0Minecraft: The Most Creative Game Ever Made
What is the appeal of Minecraft? It’s the limitless creation of one’s own reality.
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Analysis
11 years ago
+18 19 1The Best Way to Type ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Every time you shrug, you don’t need to Google, then copy, then paste.
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Current Event
11 years ago
+8 8 0The Chemistry Joke That Got a Student Suspended
Paris Gray, upstanding vice president of her about-to-graduate high-school class in Jonesboro, Georgia, was suspended last Friday when administrators figured out what her yearbook quote meant. It read: When the going gets tough, just remember t ...
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Analysis
11 years ago
+37 37 0Why Airplane Food Is So Bad
A reduced sense of taste in the air makes meals less enjoyable, and innovation is wanting as food has been phased out as an essential part of the airline experience.
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Image
11 years ago
+18 18 0World War I in Photos: Animals at War
One hundred years ago, in the summer of 1914, a series of events set off an unprecedented global conflict that ultimately claimed the lives of more than 16 million people, dramatically redrew the maps of Europe, and set the stage for the 20th Century ...




















