Inside the Republican Plot for Permanent Minority Rule
How the GOP keeps cheating its way into power—and may get away with it again in 2020
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“A Car Crash Between Nicholas Sparks and Mein Kampf”: In the Tangled World of Far-Right Chatrooms, White Supremacists Are Getting Organized
Writer Talia Lavin spent about a year catfishing white supremacists online. The result: personal trauma, predictions of a “bloody” election season, and the realization that many extremists aren’t holed up in basements—they’re bit players in our daily lives.
Room-Temperature Superconductivity Achieved for the First Time
Physicists have reached a long-sought goal. The catch is that their room-temperature superconductor requires crushing pressures to keep from falling apart.
LeBron James continues to expand our concept of excellence
Dear LeBron Raymone James, Congratulations on winning your fourth title, a title many Americans did not want you to win for reasons that reveal just as much abo…
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How Will Covid Impact This Year’s Ski Season? More Face Masks and Less Après Ski
Skiing at your favorite resort might look a little different this year. Here’s what you need to know.
Why is America running out of water?
Partner Content: Decreasing precipitation and rising populations could bring a perfect storm of water shortages for the United States. Where is our water going?
What It’s Like to Lose Your Parents to QAnon
“You get used to not having your dad there to talk to.”
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Pluralistic: 13 Oct 2020 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Today's links Attack Surface is out! : It's my book-birthday! SF as intuition pump : Optimistic disaster stories for the future! Beyond Cyberpunk : What it…
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The Quantum Internet Will Blow Your Mind. Here’s What It Will Look Like
The next generation of the Internet will rely on revolutionary new tech — allowing for unhackable networks and information that travels faster than the speed of light.
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When Plants Go to War - Issue 90: Something Green - Nautilus
Compared to the hectic rush of our bipedal world, a plant’s life may appear an oasis of tranquility. But look a little closer. The…
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A Thousand Years Before Darwin, Islamic Scholars Were Writing About Natural Selection
Professors are starting to orient Charles Darwin within a rich history of people from all cultures who have grappled with the mechanisms of life.
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We need a new approach to teaching modern Chinese history: we have lazily repeated false…
A review of Klaus Mühlhahn, Making China Modern: From the Great Qing to Xi Jinping. Harvard University Press, 736 pp, £31.95, January 2019…
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Low and no-code are wonderful, but a 'big code' world lurks underneath
For developers, code releases are "emotional" events. Many have fear and anxiety at the moment they release code or submit it for review --and fear breaking dependencies
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Grapefruit Is One of the Weirdest Fruits on the Planet
From its name, to its hazy origins, to its drug interactions, there's a lot going on beneath that thick rind.
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What Is Good Teaching?
Over the past two years, I talked with veteran educators across the country as I tried to answer this question.
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React is Dead. Long live Reactive Rails! Long live StimulusReflex and ViewComponent!
Let me tell you about the feeling that I get when I encounter something poised to revolutionize my work as a software developer. A…
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What I Learned Inside the N.B.A. Bubble
Against all odds, it really was a refuge of competence, normalcy and transcendent play. But the outside world has a way of sneaking in.
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YouTubers are upscaling the past to 4K. Historians want them to stop
YouTubers are using AI to bring history to life. But historians argue the process is nonsense
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Why the Survival of the Airlines Depends on Frequent Flyer Programs
It turns out frequent flyer programs are worth more than the airlines themselves
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Why the Future of Delta and American Airlines May Depend on Frequent Flyer
It turns out frequent flyer programs are worth more than the airlines themselves
