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Are Blacks Names ‘Weird,’ or Are You Just Racist?
A Reddit thread has ignited a new debate over unconventional black names. But white people do it too, writes Jamelle Bouie—and the double standard says something about racial inequality
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A Brief History of the Airship
From glorified balloons to military vehicles, we look up at the flighty past of dirigibles.
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If History Is Any Measure, the Clock Is Ticking
When Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi had to convince the world 10 years ago that he was serious about giving up his chemical weapons, he dragged warheads and bombs into the desert and flattened them with bulldozers.
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The Moral Dilemmas of Doctors During Disaster
In the late summer of 2005, the waters loosed in the wake of Hurricane Katrina laid siege to New Orleans. At Memorial Medical Center, the power and then the backup generators failed, creating a silence one doctor described as the “sickest sound” of his life.
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Why Can't We Find an AIDS Vaccine?
Don't celebrate this week's promising-seeming AIDS vaccine trial yet—there's a reason we haven't found one.
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Leonardo Da Vinci’s incredible mechanical lion and history’s first programmable computer
Leonardo Da Vinci’s “mechanical lion”
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What Would a Real Cyberwar Look Like?
Talk of combat in the fifth domain has become a fixture in Washington. But let's not use that as an excuse to quash a free Internet, says a war studies academic.
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Biography Reveals Another Side of Salinger
The authors of the new J.D. Salinger biography are claiming they have cracked one of publishing’s greatest mysteries: What “The Catcher in the Rye” novelist was working on during the last half century of his life.
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When Women Don’t Vote For Women
In her concession speech at the end of the 2008 Democratic Presidential primary, Hillary Clinton said to those who had supported her, “You can be so proud that, from now on, it will be unremarkable for a woman to win primary-state victories, unremarkable to have a woman in a close race to be our nominee, unremarkable to think that a woman can be the President of the United States.”
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How our names shape our identity
Sometimes we try to live up to our names. Sometimes we try to run away from them. But either way — and for all the options in between — your name is a crucial factor in developing your sense of self, and thus helps propel you forward on various paths of life and career.
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Bandit's Roost, 1890, New York City.
Photographer Jacob Riis accompanied police officers on their rounds, photographing the poor, crime-ridden streets of Manhattan at the turn of the last century.
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Then and now
There is 40 years difference between the past and the present. Source unknown.
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The Diana conspiracies
16 years after the death of a princess, new allegations point to MI6 involvement. And Scotland Yard is taking it seriously
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Overpopulation Is Not the Problem
Many scientists believe that by transforming the earth’s natural landscapes, we are undermining the very life support systems that sustain us. Like bacteria in a petri dish, our exploding numbers are reaching the limits of a finite planet, with dire consequences. Disaster looms as humans exceed the earth’s natural carrying capacity. Clearly, this could not be sustainable.
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The 1% Army: Andrew Bacevich on How America Lost the Military
After over a decade of war, most Americans are disconnected from the military because it’s all volunteers and contractors. Veteran Phil Klay reads Andrew Bacevich’s important polemic on how we lost touch with our soldiers—and how that harms the country.
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Periodic Table of the US Presidents
A visual and vibrant way to present the history of the American Presidency.
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How to Destroy a Chemical Weapon
The framework for ridding the world of Syria's chemical weapons may be tactical, but the challenge it poses is technological.
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Stasi museum in Berlin
The Stasi was an Eastern Germany version of the KGB, established by the Soviets in 1952. Just like the KGB, the Stasi was mostly busy looking for enemies of the people, employing round-the-clock surveillance, and eavesdropping on German citizens. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, people assaulted the Stasi headquarters, dissolved the organization, opened its archives to the public, and created a museum in the main building.
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14 Machines That Were Brilliant in 1985
Head back in time and see just how far we've come since 1985 -- then get excited about the future of technology.
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Living in a Bacterial World
The good news: Antibiotics didn't create antibiotic-resistant bacteria. The bad news: Antibiotic-resistant bacteria is everywhere.
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