Post Overview
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Current Event
5 years ago+30 30 0Burger King begins selling the meatless Impossible Whopper
It features a patty designed to look and taste like beef.
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Video/Audio
5 years ago+20 20 0Handle Robot Reimagined for Logistics
Handle is a mobile manipulation robot designed for logistics. Handle autonomously performs mixed SKU pallet building and depalletizing after initialization and localizing against the pallets. The on-board vision system on Handle tracks the marked pal ...
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Expression
5 years ago+37 37 0 x 1Facebook: Standing Against Hate
"Today we're announcing a ban on praise, support and representation of white nationalism and separatism on Facebook and Instagram."
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Current Event
5 years ago+16 16 0Lightsaber duelling registered as official sport in France
Emulating Star Wars combatants will encourage young people to engage in regular exercise, says French Fencing Federation
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Analysis
5 years ago+36 36 0 x 1Why You Procrastinate (It Has Nothing to Do With Self-Control)
If procrastination isn’t about laziness, then what is it about?
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Current Event
5 years ago+22 22 0What happens after rich kids bribe their way into college? I teach them
The corruption at elite US schools has allowed an influx of unskilled students to create a palpable strain on the quality of education expected from professors
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Analysis
5 years ago+29 29 0 x 1The Quest to Acquire the Oldest, Most Expensive Book on the Planet
A wooden box containing one of the most valuable books in the world arrives in Los Angeles on October 14, 1950, with little more fanfare—or security—than a Sears catalog. Code-named “the commode,” it was flown from London via regular parcel post, and ...
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Analysis
5 years ago+14 14 0Most Bitcoin Trading Faked by Unregulated Exchanges, Study Finds
Nearly 95% of all reported trading in bitcoin is artificially created by unregulated exchanges, a new study concludes, raising fresh doubts about the nascent market following a steep decline in prices over the past year.
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Analysis
5 years ago+33 33 0 x 1Crashed jets reportedly lacked key safety features because Boeing charged extra for them
Boeing jets in Ethiopia and Indonesia lacked two safety features in their cockpits because the company charged extra to install them.
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Current Event
5 years ago+38 38 0 x 1FCC Admits in Court That It Can't Track Who Submits Fake Comments
The FCC’s public comment system is a bloody mess. Over the past two years, it’s become apparent that political lobbyists, usually acting on behalf of the telecom industry itself, are prepared to manipulate the agency’s rulemaking process and imperson ...
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Expression
5 years ago+21 21 0“Leave No Soldier Behind”: The Unsolved Mystery of the Soldier Who Died in the Watchtower
Is the Army botching its investigations into noncombatant deaths?
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Analysis
5 years ago+34 34 0 x 1Kidfluencers' Rampant YouTube Marketing Creates Minefield for Google
Efforts to tackle inappropriate children’s content had unintended effect, pushing creators into legal gray zones.
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Analysis
5 years ago+45 45 0 x 1It's Scary How Much Personal Data People Leave on Used Laptops and Phones
In a dusty plastic bin under my bed lies at least four laptops, six cellphones, and a half-dozen hard drives. I have no idea what’s on any of them. Most of these devices predate the cloud-storage era, and so likely contain solitary copies of photos, ...
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Current Event
5 years ago+34 34 0 x 1World’s shortest motorway built to shame a nation
An entrepreneur builds a one-metre-long stretch of motorway to protest about poor road infrastructure.
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Analysis
5 years ago+40 40 0 x 1This robot gripper looks like a wilted flower, but it can lift 100 times its own weight
Weird-looking robots are the best robots.
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Expression
5 years ago+20 20 0The tiny Indian village that banned shoes
In a country where people often go barefoot indoors – considering it a gesture of respect and a nod to hygiene – a village in southern India has taken the practice to a new level.
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Analysis
5 years ago+43 43 0 x 1A slew of 911 calls from Amazon warehouses reportedly show employees in severe emotional distress and threatening suicide
Some Amazon employees are reportedly suffering from severe emotional distress on the job, according to a report in The Daily Beast.
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Analysis
5 years ago+30 30 0Yakutsk: Journey to the coldest city on earth
Think our winter's been a bit grim? Try visiting Yakutsk – the Russian city where 'a bit nippy' means minus 50C, and a quick dash to the corner shop could end in frostbite. Shaun Walker enjoys amini-break in deepest Siberia
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Analysis
5 years ago+41 41 0 x 1The ‘Golden Death’ Bacterium Found in a Rotten Apple
This “spectacular” pathogen dissolves its host from inside out. For several years in the fall, Marie-Anne Félix would walk through an apple orchard near Paris in search of rotten fruit. Félix, an evolutionary biologist at École normale supérieure, s ...
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Expression
5 years ago+36 36 0 x 1While YouTube and Facebook fumble, Pinterest is reducing health misinformation in ways that actually make sense
Plus: Big advertisers ban YouTube (not over vaccines), the National Cancer Institute wonders how to respond to health misinformation, and how to fill a data void.