July 31, 2021
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Shein is the future of fast fashion. Is that a good thing?
“If you’ve spent some time scrolling and shopping on TikTok, you’re probably familiar with the fashion retailer Shein. From personal experience, however,…”
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The Biggest Threat to Democracy Is the GOP Stealing the Next Election
“The greatest threat to American democracy today is not a repeat of January 6, but the possibility of a stolen presidential election. Contemporary democracies…”
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The Futuristic Stink of Amazon’s Science Fiction
“For years, the megacorporation has churned out sci-fi— Electric Dreams , Upload , Solos —that ranges from obnoxious to just plain noxious. Farts linger, far…”
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Opinion | The Rest of the World Is Worried About America
“Ezra Klein The Rest of the World Is Worried About America July 1, 2021 Credit… Damon Winter/The New York Times By Opinion Columnist This weekend, American…”
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The Beautiful, Baffling Annette Dares You To Take It Seriously
“Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard bare it all, in more ways than one, for Leos Carax and Sparks’ moving, bizarre musical. Photo: Amazon Studios It’s got big…”
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The Pandemic Did Not Affect Mental Health the Way You Think
“You’ve probably heard that the coronavirus pandemic triggered a worldwide mental-health crisis. This narrative took hold almost as quickly as the virus itself.…”
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A lizard’s venom inspired a promising weight loss drug
“A Gila monster is held up on display at an aquarium in Hamburg, Germany, on December 29, 2016. The hormones from the lizard’s venom have led to the development…”
July 30, 2021
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“Among L. Ron Hubbard’s most pressing concerns was a singular problem: how to get his followers to turn their nouns into verbs and verbs into nouns. Like a…”
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The Unfinished Evolution of Aziz Ansari
“Aziz Ansari. (Photo by Cian Oba-Smith / Netflix) In 2009, comedian Aziz Ansari closed his first stand-up special, Intimate Moments for a Sensual Evening , with…”
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The Emerging Movement for Police and Prison Abolition
“The murder of George Floyd last spring provoked an unprecedented outpouring of protests, and a rare national reckoning with both racism and police violence.…”
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A professor became a police officer — and learned what’s really broken about policing
“Protesters clash with police officers during a protest against police brutality near the Federal Courthouse in Portland, Oregon, on December 31, 2020. John…”
July 21, 2021
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“What is a Eurorack Modular Synthesizer? Whether hardware or software, most synths out in the wild have a fixed architecture. This means that the manufacturer…”
July 4, 2021
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“ Art History Photography #autochrome #beach #portraits Dreamlike Autochrome Portraits of an Engineer’s Daughter From 1913 Are Among the Earliest Color Photos…”
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‘Hard to comprehend’: Experts react to record 121 degrees in Canada
“The all-time high of 121 degrees set in British Columbia on Tuesday has left weather and climate experts all over the world shocked, speechless and deeply…”
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““We are our memory… that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.” It is already disorienting enough to accept that our attention only…”
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The Conspiracy Singularity Has Arrived
“A few months ago, at a time when it was still safe to have strange experiences in unusual places, I was handed a mysterious document. “ALLIANCES AND TRAITORS…”
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Canadian inferno: northern heat exceeds worst-case climate models
“If you were drawing up a list of possible locations for hell on Earth, the small mountain village of Lytton in Canada would probably not have entered your mind…”
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Rare Events Need Different Methods
“In the next few weeks, I want to discuss some of the broader questions and some of the detailed topics that have come up during the whole coronavirus origins…”
June 28, 2021
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Jon Hassell, Trumpeter and ‘Fourth World’ Composer, Dies at 84
“Blending modern technology with traditional instruments, Mr. Hassell created a genre he described as “coffee-colored classical music of the future.” Jon Hassell…”
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“A medical reversal is when an existing treatment is found to actually be useless or harmful. Psychology has in recent years been racking up reversals: in fact…”
June 21, 2021
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Burnout: Modern Affliction or Human Condition?
“Burnout is generally said to date to 1973; at least, that’s around when it got its name. By the nineteen-eighties, everyone was burned out. In 1990, when the…”
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Why “Anywhere, Anytime” Autonomous Vehicles Make No Sense
“A lot of people in my Twitter feed seem really excited about the idea of owning a car that can drive itself anywhere, anytime. My fellow Tesla drivers call this…”
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The Beautiful Summer Day When My Family Almost Died
“Health Of all the injuries we suffered, mine is the worst. My brain injury has shaken my confidence in my own personality, my own existence. Hana Schank 7:00 AM…”
June 16, 2021
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Covid-19: Has the pandemic harmed our memories?
“Has your memory got worse during the pandemic? The data is in. I In November 2020 I wrote a feature about us becoming more forgetful during the Covid-19…”
June 14, 2021
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Hustle Culture and the Big Lies of Success
“One day, Richard Montañez, then a janitor at Frito-Lay, took an unseasoned pack of Cheetos from a broken machine on the assembly line home with him. He…”
June 13, 2021
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How unconscious forces control our actions
“Subliminal messaging and nudge psychology lead us to believe that we can be influenced without us realising, but just how powerful is our unconscious mind?…”
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How Thousands of Indigenous Children Vanished in Canada
“The discovery of the remains of 215 children at the former site of a boarding school in British Columbia has rekindled discussion of a sinister time in Canada’s…”
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Science in flux: is a revolution brewing in evolutionary theory? – Kevin Laland | Aeon Essays
“When researchers at Emory University in Atlanta trained mice to fear the smell of almonds (by pairing it with electric shocks), they found , to their…”
June 12, 2021
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The Human Genome Is—Finally!—Complete
“Science The Human Genome Project left 8 percent of our DNA unexplored. Now, for the first time, those enigmatic regions have been revealed. Sarah Zhang 8:00 AM…”
June 10, 2021
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Many People Have a Vivid ‘Mind’s Eye,’ While Others Have None at All
“Matter Scientists are finding new ways to probe two not-so-rare conditions to better understand the links between vision, perception and memory. Credit……”