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Shipping cycles and trick cycles
The editor asked for my thoughts on the idea that the ‘shipping cycle’ might become a thing of the past, thanks to improvements in our ability to process data. My mind went back to 1979, when the idea of ‘research’ into shipping supply and demand was still relatively new.... By Andrew Craig Bennett.
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There’s more than practice to becoming a world-class expert
Practice is important for talent. But, is that all it takes to become an expert? By D. Zachary Hambrick and Fredrik Ullén.
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The Future of Disaster Relief Isn’t the Red Cross
Team Rubicon began in 2010 with a unique dual mission: providing disaster relief and giving struggling American veterans a vital sense of purpose. The program has a reputation for ignoring best practices and obliterating red tape, and it has already disrupted the aid industry. Now founder Jake Wood wants to take on the Red Cross. By Kyle Dickman.
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The rise of the superstars
A small group of giant companies—some old, some new—are once again dominating the global economy, says Adrian Wooldridge. Is that a good or a bad thing?
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The Deepest Dig
The bottom of the ocean is the most remote place on Earth, but that isn’t stopping us from mining it. By Brooke Jarvis.
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Mars: Inside the High-Risk, High-Stakes Race to the Red Planet
If the trip doesn’t kill you, living there might. By Joel Achenbach.
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The plight of young scientists
A special issue explores how the research enterprise keeps early-career scientists from pursuing the most important work, and what can be done to help.
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The pilot who stole a secret Soviet fighter jet
When pilot Viktor Belenko defected, he did so in a mysterious Soviet plane – the MiG-25. Stephen Dowling looks at its far-reaching impact.
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Now Cancelled Comma One Would Have Embarrassed The Car Industry
Prediction: There will be a Comma Two. By Alex Roy.
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What Happens Inside NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab Changes the World
Everyone’s talking about private industry getting humans on Mars. Mars trips! Mars houses! Mars colonies! But no one’s going anywhere without the help of one brilliant, peculiar, fantastical space center—NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab, which is behind almost every amazing feat in the history of space travel. By Jacqueline Detwiler.
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New York City’s Graveyard Shift
A look at the men and women who work while the rest of the city sleeps. Text by Alexandra Schwartz, photographs by Adam Pape.
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A Star in a Bottle
An audacious plan to create a new energy source could save the planet from catastrophe. But time is running out. By Raffi Khatchadourian. (Mar. 3, 2014)
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Piers Sellers, Space Shuttle Astronaut and NASA Climate Scientist, Dies at 61
Piers Sellers, a British-born climate scientist and NASA astronaut who launched on three space shuttle missions, died on Friday (Dec. 23). He was 61. By Robert Z. Pearlman.
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NYC’s best new architecture of 2016, from Governors Island to the Oculus
From epic public works to affordable developments in the outer boroughs, 2016 was a banner year for New York City architecture. By Amy Plitt.
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The Humans and Machines That Built New York’s Most Expensive Subway
Motherboard goes underground. By Derek Mead, Madison Margolin, Alex Pasternack.
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霓虹的製作 The Making of Neon Signs (2014)
Cpak Studio
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Dark Ecology
“How did things get to be this way?” By Paul Kingsnorth.
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End of a golden age
Unprecedented growth marked the era from 1948 to 1973. Economists might study it forever, but it can never be repeated. Why? By Marc Levinson.
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The Art—and Anger—of Japanese Internment Camp Silk Screeners
Inside the complex legacy of the print shop at Colorado’s Camp Amache. By Cara Giaimo.
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Wayne Barrett and Donald Trump
How did we get from ‘Village Voice’ reporters digging up everything there is to know about a flashy New York real estate salesman to not knowing anything about the President of the United States and his ties to Russia? By Lee Smith.
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