The biggest lie tech people tell themselves — and the rest of us
They see facial recognition, smart diapers, and surveillance devices as inevitable evolutions. They’re not.
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The Navy's Patent for a Compact Nuclear Fusion Reactor Is Wild
The designs seemingly stretch the limits of science.
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How Airbnb Is Silently Changing Himalayan Villages - Veridici
Above my mountain-top cottage in a beautiful Himalayan village, the road ends and the forest begins. After sunset, flying squirrels come out. Leopards occasionally growl outside the cottage. There is no habitation nearby, except a small village of hundred people where houses stand so close to each other that people can watch over each other …
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Professional-Managerial Chasm
In the early years of the 20th century, the professions emerged in their modern forms, establishing uniform standards of practice and conduct in all these fields. The new professionals were in general politically progressive, seeing their purpose as the renovation of American democracy and the modernization of conditions of work and life, in keeping with the momentous social and technological changes that had remade the world. Early on, they tended to imagine themselves as the antagonists of cap...
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Pre-breakfast workouts for men could "maximize" a specific exercise benefit
"I think a lot of athletes already use this strategy."
Google chief: I'd disclose smart speakers before guests enter my home
Rick Osterloh suggests house guests have the right to know smart speakers are in use before entering.
If SMART Goals Don't Work for You, Try FAST Goals Instead
You’re probably familiar with the concept of the SMART goal: specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and timely. That kind of goal can get results, but it might not be the best way to get you where you want to go.
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I Just Took The World's First 20-Hour Flight. Here's What It Did to Me
I’ve just endured the world’s newest longest flight, a 16,200 kilometer (10,100 mile), nonstop ultra-marathon from New York to Sydney. It took about 19 and a…
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Want to Win That Race? Hire a Coach to Stay Alongside You and Carry Your Phone
Diane Reynolds had been racing for a few months when she won her first amateur cycling event, the Farm to Fork Fondo near upstate New York’s Finger Lakes in…
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Opinion | Trump Has Disqualified Himself From Running in 2020
The president’s brazen attempt at cheating has taken “decide it at the ballot box” off the menu. Impeachment is imperative.
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Meet the Rich Kids Who Want to Give Away All Their Money
The nation's richest people never expected the real revolution would come from inside their own families.
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Komodo Dragons Are So Badass They Have 'Chain Mail' Embedded in Their Skin
Komodo dragons - the biggest, fiercest, most impressive lizards on our planet - just got that much more amazing. A new discovery shows that under their scaly skin, these animals are completely covered in mail-like armour built out of tiny bones, from
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A New Theory of Obesity
“Ultraprocessed” foods seem to trigger neural signals that make us want more and more calories, unlike other foods in the Western diet
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These Ants Use Germ-Killers, and They’re Better Than Ours
Parasitic fungi do not seem to develop resistance to the chemicals, suggesting new ways to prevent antibiotic resistance.
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Why People Are Dying from Vaping in the U.S. and Not the U.K.
There's a reason—actually, a few—and none of them are very flattering to American politicians.
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Happy 10th anniversary, Jim and Pam! An oral history of The Office wedding
Horses. Beats. The Office. Happy anniversary to the Halperts! Considering how much The Office still seems to be in our…
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Why Everything Is Getting Louder
The tech industry is producing a rising din. Our bodies can’t adapt.
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What an Olympic medalist, homeless in Seattle, wants you to know
Rebecca Twigg was a famous Olympian cyclist. Today, she's homeless in Seattle.
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Shackleton’s Medical Kit
‘Each box was like the distillation of all that we have learned as a species about our bodies and their infirmities, a time capsule of medicine.’
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Firefighting foam leaves toxic legacy in Californians’ drinking water
The Los Angeles Times reviewed hundreds of pages of Pentagon documents and found California has more bases contaminated with the chemicals, known as PFAS, than any other state — at least 21 that exceed federal health guidelines.
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A Good Place: The fake town where everybody knows your name
With a population of over 87,000, Lower Duck Pond is the largest, friendliest, and oddest city that’s not on the map.
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This is your phone on feminism
Let’s face the truth. We are in an abusive relationship with our phones.
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‘It’s rooted in the 1970s-era conception of environmentalism’ — Seattle looks to rein in state policy used to push back on big projects and developments
To rise above Capitol Hill, the Bullitt Center, the world’s first super-green “living” office building, faced a nearly unbelievable fight. Owners of a neighboring building used the State’s Environm…
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The Hokoana trial: Inside the 'Antifa' shooting incident the media don't want to talk about
It was just a little pop, hardly noticeable amid the din of the shouting and the fighting on Inauguration night—January 20, 2017—in the University of Washington’s Red Square, a massive red-...
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When you get a stitch in your side, what’s really going on?
Doctors still don’t know what causes it, or how to stop it.
