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.
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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.
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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.
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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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How Iceman Wim Hof Uncovered the Secrets to Our Health
Wim Hof's teachings about breath work and the health benefits of cold plunges have attracted millions of followers who swear it has cured everything from depression to diabetes and makes them happier and stronger. Our writer traveled to Iceland (naturally) for a deep dive with the man and his methods.
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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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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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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
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The Students Left Behind by Remote Learning
Has a desire to keep the coronavirus out of schools put children’s long-term well-being at stake?
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'I'm extremely controversial': the psychologist rethinking human emotion
Full of fear, but fun ... riding a rollercoaster in Domodedovo, Russia.Photograph: Gavriil Grigorov/Tass I n early March, as the world began to realise that…
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The Wound of Multilingualism: On Surrendering the Languages of Home
That morning in London in the early 1990s, I was on my way to a college in Kilburn to start my English course. To belong in a country you have to know its language first. That’s what immigrants are…
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The Election That Could Break America
If the vote is close, Donald Trump could easily throw the election into chaos and subvert the result. Who will stop him?
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Strong Code Ownership
Martin Fowler describes the three categories of code ownership utilized in most software projects: 1. Strong code ownership breaks a code base up into modules (classes, functions, files) and assign…
