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'Gods' edging out robots at Toyota facility
Inside Toyota Motor Corp.'s oldest plant, there's a corner where humans have taken over from robots in thwacking glowing lumps of metal into crankshafts...
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Unravel
‘Maybe the water is too expensive to wash them’: Indian women recycling clothes from the West wonder about the lives of those who wore them.
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How Hollywood Keeps Out Women
"I just think that there's a deep, rotten core in society. To me, it is just straight-up misogyny." — Diablo Cody
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Whale Hunting: Tradition or Travesty?
A new documentary for VICE from photographer Ed Ou investigates the ethical and social complexities of whale hunting in …
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Eugenics, Ready or Not
Despite warnings by moral conservatives, advances in genetics and reproductive technology have created the conditions for a consumer-driven mass eugenics industry. Like it or not, science has is about to pose a slather of moral, ethical and societal dilemmas
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Peak Oil
Roughly half of the world’s oil supply is gone; half is left. How will our society choose to use the oil that remains? By Stuart McMillen.
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Morality and the Idea of Progress in Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley’s amorality problem arises from the blind faith many place in progress. The narrative of progress provides moral cover to the tech industry and lulls people into thinking they no longer need to exercise moral judgment.
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Highways gutted American cities. So why did they build them?
A story of highway engineers, institutional racism, and the auto industry.
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You Will Not Get To Retire: How Old Age Became Unaffordable And Unhealthy, And How We Can Fix It
The days of retiring peacefully and financially secure are close to being over. Get ready for a lot more seniors in the work force—which has the potential to be both a problem and an opportunity.
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Where there is oil and gas there is Schlumberger
\It’s ubiquitous in fossil fuel operations across the world, has more staff than Google, turns over more than Boeing, and is worth more than McDonald’s. Meet the oil world’s most secretive operator.
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Suicide By Pesticide
What the honey bee die-off means for humanity. By Chris Martenson.
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The Future of Farms
Why agriculture may someday take place in towers, not fields
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How Ford Models Changed the Face of Beauty
The little-known story behind a pair of young newlyweds in post–World War II Manhattan who launched the era of the supermodel.
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Heavy metal: Life at the world's largest shipyard
To a European visitor, the city of Ulsan on the southern tip of the Korean peninsula seems like a throwback to some lost world....
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To Save California, Read “Dune”
Fifty years ago science-fiction author Frank Herbert seized the imagination of readers with his portrayal of a planet on which it never rained. In the novel Dune, the scarcest resource is water, so much so that the mere act of shedding a tear or spitting on the floor takes on weighty cultural significance...
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Lines of Light and Dark
On Mowing and Writing. By Nick Ripatrazone.
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Lives at the wheel
Tanya Harrod reviews Peter Korn’s “Why We Make Things and Why It Matters: The Education Of A Craftsman” and Emma Crichton-Miller et al’s "Edmund De Waal.”
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How my father gave me a terrifying lesson at 10
At the age of 10, Bernard Hare's father took him down the mine where he worked.
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Houses of Horror
Matthew Sweet explores the creative rivalry between the two great British horror studios.
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The final years of Irrational Games, according to those who were there
The employees were shocked.
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