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Kamala Harris Is Biden’s VP Pick — Here’s What It Means For The Election And Beyond
Former Vice President and presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden announced Sen. Kamala Harris as his running mate today. Here’s a look at what this choice mea…
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How the pandemic might play out in 2021 and beyond
This coronavirus is here for the long haul — here’s what scientists predict for the next months and years.
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Tom Shippey · Did they even hang bears? What made the Vikings tick? · LRB 13 August 2020
The Vikings, for all their strange customs and unknowable psychology, were more like us than we might like to admit. But...
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Making of British & Exotic Mineralogy
Have you ever had an idea that sticks with you? One popped into my head when I stumbled across James Sowerby’s massive collection of mineral illustrations from the nineteenth century. I naively wondered how they would look arranged by color in a big collage and spent the next three and a half months making it happen with British & Exotic Mineralogy…and learning new levels of patience along the way.
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America’s Enduring Caste System
Credit... Photo illustration by Chris Burnett Feature Our founding ideals promise liberty and equality for all. Our reality is an enduring racial hierarchy that…
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A 600-Mile Quest to Savor the Fading Beauty of Japan’s Traditional Cafes
One man’s journey to track down the origins of pizza toast led him to the traditional kissaten
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Ellen DeGeneres: How the talk show host's nice reputation turned toxic
Ellen DeGeneres ’s reputation as the perpetually sunny, rug-cutting host of daytime TV hit The Ellen DeGeneres Show has been shifting for a few years, sparked…
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The UX of LEGO Interface Panels – George Cave
Piloting an ocean exploration ship or Martian research shuttle is serious business. Let’s hope the control panel is up to scratch. Two studs wide and angled at 45°, the ubiquitous “2x2 decorated slope” is a LEGO minifigure’s interface to the world. These iconic, low-resolution designs are the perfect tool to learn the basics of physical interface design. Armed with 52 different bricks, let’s see what they can teach us about the design, layout and organisation of complex interfaces. Welcome to...
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NBA Players Are Slowly but Surely Adapting to Bubble-Game Differences
Virtual fans may have seemed like the biggest in-arena changes players would face in Orlando, but overheard barbs, technical fouls, and differences in shooting sight lines have also required some getting used to
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Number Fever: The Pepsi Contest That Became a Deadly Fiasco
Marily So, a woman in her early fifties with graying hair, runs a sari-sari store out of her one-room home in a concrete building beside a railway track in…
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A nun on the radical possibilities of Christianity
A conversation about love and suffering in the Christian tradition
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I’m harvesting credit card numbers and passwords from your site. Here’s how.
The following is a true story. Or maybe it’s just based on a true story. Perhaps it’s not true at all.
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This Is Not The DRY You Are Looking For
Something went terribly wrong. We took an insightful principle about knowledge management and turned it into code nonsense.
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Why It’s so Hard to Actually Work in Shared Offices
WeWork offers freelancers a chic workspace and beer on tap—but are people productive?
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Sierra Club examines racist past, painful legacy of John Muir
The Sierra Club on Wednesday said it would examine its "substantial role" in perpetuating white supremacy and denounced the racist actions of environmentalist icon John Muir, a prominent figure in the preservation of America's wilderness.
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How Inuit Parents Teach Kids To Control Their Anger
At the top of the world, the Inuit culture has developed a sophisticated way to sculpt kids' behavior without yelling or scolding. Could discipline actually be playful?
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How JavaScript works: an overview of the engine, the runtime, and the call stack
As JavaScript is getting more and more popular, teams are leveraging its support on many levels in their stack - front-end, back-end…
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Five common mistakes writing react components (with hooks) in 2020
The most common mistakes I found while writing react components, why they are mistakes and how to avoid or fix them.
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It’s really settling in now, the losses large and small
Pursuing deep thinking and moral imagination, social courage and joy, to renew inner life, outer life, and life together. A nonprofit media and public life initiative.
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Hospitals Are Suddenly Short of Young Doctors — Because of Trump’s Visa Ban
Doctors treating coronavirus patients were supposed to be allowed into the U.S. But hundreds of young doctors have their visas put on hold indefinitely.
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What a post-Trump Republican Party might look like
American Compass founder Oren Cass on why conservatives need to challenge free-market economic orthodoxy.
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REVIEWS — RHINO —
The Cambridge History of China, Vol. 2: The Six Dynasties, 220–589 Edited by lbert E. Dien and Keith N Knapp Reviewed by Anthony Madrid … enough information to keep a team of million-IQ weirdos busy for a decade.
