Post Overview
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Expression
6 years ago+11 11 0So You Want To Become A Better Writer?
Writing is art and all art is subjective.
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Analysis
6 years ago+18 18 0Millennials are starting to hate social media, too
Even millennials are getting sick of Instagram. More than half of users between the ages of 18 and 24 revealed they are “seeking relief from social media,” according to a survey.
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6 years ago+9 9 0Why You Should Take a Break Before Editing Your Work
Editing is a vital part of writing. Without it, we end up with a bunch of incohesive and confusing sentences that make little to no sense.
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6 years ago+9 9 0What are you afraid of?
It takes courage to create.
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Current Event
6 years ago+32 32 0 x 1Danish Inventor Accused of Murdering Kim Wall Goes on Trial
Peter Madsen is said to have killed and dismembered Ms. Wall after inviting her onto his self-built submarine, in a case that has garnered worldwide attention.
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6 years ago+14 14 0Retweets Are Trash
A modest proposal to improve Twitter—and perhaps the world.
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6 years ago+5 5 0WordPress now powers 30% of websites
WordPress now powers 30 percent of the web, according to data from web technology survey firm W3Techs. This represents a 5 percentage point increase in nearly two and a half years, after WordPress …
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6 years ago+18 18 0Shopping Around: How Folding Basket Carriers Became Modern Nesting Carts
The shopping cart has become an icon of consumer culture, a ubiquitous symbol of retail in physical stores as well as online. Carts revolutionized the way people shop, but they weren’t an instant hit. The creator of “folding basket carriers” actually ...
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6 years ago+32 32 0 x 1Something Mysterious Is Killing Captive Gorillas
For a decade, zookeepers have known that something strange was stopping the giant animals’ hearts—now they’re beginning to trace the culprit to their guts.
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6 years ago+9 9 0How I Write 3–4 Articles Per Week, Every Week.
Many of you are amazed at how much content I publish every month. I wanted to take you behind the scenes as once you understand my strategy, you won’t be that amazed and you’ll probably be able to do the same yourself (and get better results than me) ...
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6 years ago+5 5 0How Medium Titans Grow Their Audience To 20,000 Followers And Beyond
It’s data. It’s practice. It’s repetition. It’s figuring out what sort of content people WANT to read — these three amazing writers just had different ways of going about it.
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Current Event
6 years ago+27 27 0Lego to launch sustainable, plant-based plastic pieces
Toy manufacturer Lego is to make some of its pieces from a plant-based plastic.
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6 years ago+32 32 0 x 1Exactly What Happens When You Get Cremated
Four decades ago, less than 5 percent of American were cremated when they died. Now that figure stands at nearly half. This is how cremation actually works, and what happens to a culture when its attitude about how to memorialize the dead undergoes a ...
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6 years ago+15 15 0A video game-playing AI beat Q*bert in a way no one’s ever seen before
AI research and video games are a match made in heaven. Researchers get a ready-made virtual environment with predefined goals they can control completely, and the AI agent gets to romp around without doing any damage. Sometimes, though, they do brea ...
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6 years ago+17 17 0Uber, Lyft Drivers Earning A Median Profit Of $3.37 Per Hour, Study Says
Researchers at MIT said 30 percent of Uber and Lyft drivers are actually losing money after taking car expenses into account, while most drivers earn less than minimum wage.
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6 years ago+16 17 1Yes, bacon really is killing us
The long read: Decades of research proves that chemicals used to make bacon do cause cancer. So how did the meat industry convince us it was safe?
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6 years ago+17 17 0Crypto-currencies cause deaths, says Gates
In a Reddit thread, the Microsoft founder expresses his concerns about digital currencies like Bitcoin.
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Current Event
6 years ago+2 2 0Facebook rolls out job posts to become the blue-collar LinkedIn
LinkedIn wasn't built for low-skilled job seekers, so Facebook is barging in. Today Facebook is rolling out job posts to 40 more countries to make itself more..
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6 years ago+9 9 0Why Now Is Actually The Best Time To Become A Blogger
“Now” is and always will be the best time because there’s a massive shortage of true creativity. To be honest, people will never stop copying one another. Follow me for a second..
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6 years ago+29 29 0 x 1The dangerous downsides of perfectionism
Many of us believe perfectionism is a positive. But researchers are finding that it could be dangerous, leading to a long list of health problems – and that it’s on the rise.