How Dollar General Took Over Rural America
As the chain opens stores at the rate of three a day across the U.S., often in the heart of ‘food deserts’, some see Dollar General as an admission that a town is failing.
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Day Two to One Day
Amazon.com was showing signs of being a Day Two company, including the alleged manipulation of search. There is reason, though, to be optimistic that the company has gotten back to Day One. Plus, w…
In Coal Country, the Mines Shut Down, the Women Went to Work and the World Quietly Changed
From 2010 to 2017, Letcher County in Kentucky saw a greater shift in the gender balance of its labor force than almost any other county in the United States.
The case for ditching the city and moving to the country
Plenty of people dream of doing it. Christopher Ingraham’s new book makes a pretty solid case about why you should.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger Isn't Competitive. He Just Likes to Win.
As he proves fighting Gabriel Luna in 'Terminator: Dark Fate,' the 72-year-old is as driven as ever.
The Water Wars Are Here
In a warming world, fights over water usage have become ideological battles.
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Why Are American Homes So Big?
The U.S. is in the top tier of house sizes internationally—and it’s not just because of McMansions.
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Workflow systems turn raw data into scientific knowledge
How workflow tools can make your computational methods portable, maintainable, reproducible and shareable.
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Starting and Scaling a Growth Team
Growth teams, like growth tactics, need to evolve. I describe the most common ways I see growth teams start and evolve over time.
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I’ve Built Multiple Growth Teams. Here’s Why I Won’t Do It Again.
Big success. Bigger failure. And lots of lessons. Learn why building a growth team may be a multi-million dollar mistake.
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The Big Idea: Sean Carroll
I've been aware of the "Many Worlds" interpretation of physics for some time -- longtime readers of mine know it's intimately connected with space travel in my "Old Man's War" series of novels. But in the real world, how does it connect to the actual physics we know and (profess to) understand? Actual physicist Sean…
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Running GitHub on Rails 6.0
On August 26, 2019, the GitHub application was deployed to production with 100% of traffic on the newest Rails version: 6.0. Read more about our process for upgrading, what we learned, and what’s next.
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Can We Survive Extreme Heat?
Listen to audio version of this story below: On a scorching day in downtown Phoenix, when the temperature soars to 115°F or higher, heat becomes a lethal force.…
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20 years of Dreamcast: Readers look back on Sega’s final console
After two decades, how do fans feel about Sega’s iconic Dreamcast? They tell us why the console still holds a place in their hearts.
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122 degrees for days: the looming Phoenix heat wave that could harm thousands
How climate change could bring the Katrina of extreme heat to Arizona.
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The Space Between Galaxies Isn’t Empty
Most of the atoms in the universe lie in its flyover country.
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The Mysterious Evacuation of Sunspot Observatory
A year ago today, the FBI suddenly shut down a remote mountaintop observatory with no explanation. The internet went wild with theories.
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The Manconomy Is Cynical and Exploitative and It’s Going to Save Us All
The Manconomy is here—and it wants your money.
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Chapter 16: How to Build a Pyramid – The Analog Antiquarian
Exactly how did the Egyptians build the Pyramid of Khufu and its two great successors on the Giza Plateau? That question has been debated at least since the…
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RabbitMQ for PHP Developers
In my last article Easy Peasy RabbitMQ Squeezy, I wrote how RabbitMQ works. I tried to mention in-depth with easy examples so that even if…
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A Cynic’s Guide to Killing It at Stanford
Disclaimer: We don’t actually know who these people are — which ones are billionaires and which ones will soon be. Photo: Connie J. Spinardi/Getty Images Google…
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What Statistics Can and Can’t Tell Us About Ourselves
Making individual predictions from collective characteristics is a risky business. Illustration by Ben Wiseman Harold Eddleston, a seventy-seven-year-old from…
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Waze Hijacked L.A. in the Name of Convenience. Can Anyone Put the Genie Back in the Bottle?
Traffic apps turned the city's neighborhoods into "shortcuts." Now furious residents are attempting to take them back, street by street
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The Adults In The Room
Screenshot: HBO There is a version of the story of this company in which idealistic journalists, unconcerned with profit, are posed against ruthless…
