Epicene Cyborg

March 16, 2014

The “Paid-What-You’re-Worth” Myth.

Why the Fed Hates Inflation: 1.2 Trillion Dollars of Why.

Global Capitalism Has Written Off The Human Race.

Sexist culture and harassment drives GitHub’s first female developer to quit.

March 15, 2014

Greek Dark Ages.

Obama: Health insurance isn’t expensive – just cancel cable and phones.

Bill Gates: Bots Are Taking Away Jobs.

March 14, 2014

Elegy for a Country’s Seasons by Zadie Smith.

March 13, 2014

ObamaCare Clusterfuck: Your access to health insurance is still random, depending on what state you live in.

Everyone Wins With Copyright Takedown Notices — Except the Public.

Is the separation of eroticism and feminism a problem?

On being geeky, disabled, and also kinda smokin.’

Powerlines disturb animal habitats by appearing as disturbing flashes of UV light invisible to the human eye.

Spain, a developed market democracy, gets 10 to 20 times as much infrastructure for its money as America does, and it is of much higher quality to boot. Why is this?

Bitcoin is Not a Currency.

5 Myths We’re Likely To Hear At Tomorrow’s DMCA Hearing.

March 12, 2014

Europe’s hot new export is deflation. Deflation is so, so much more dangerous than inflation.

The Sociopathic 1 Percent: The Driving Force at the Heart of the Tea Party.

March 11, 2014

Keeping the Poor Poor.

Psychiatry Now Admits It’s Been Wrong in Big Ways – But Can It Change?

New Mexicans get 90 percent of their drinking water from groundwater. Yet the governor of this drought-plagued Southwestern state has given the copper industry carte blanche to pollute what is left of that essential resource.

My Life as a Retail Worker: Nasty, Brutish, and Poor.

March 10, 2014

Which Side Is Your Pension On?

The Geographical Dispersion of U.S. Inflation.

March 9, 2014

The Fat Drug.

The Collaborative Consumption Trap.

The Unique Merger That Made You (and Ewe, and Yew).

March 8, 2014

The US is fighting against public healthcare around the world.

The Great Male Reset.

The Importance of The Unlikable Heroine. Glad someone recognized that Katniss is actually pretty unlikable.

5 Big Problems With Compassion-Baiting.

Mary Beard · The Public Voice of Women.

Debt is an idea.

Rage against the monopolized machine: you should use products how you want.

Grand Juries Explained.

March 7, 2014

Steve Martin of Virginia on abortion: State senator calls pregnant women “hosts.”

If He’s Sexually Aggressive In Bars, It’s Not Because He’s Drunk.

Doxxing victim: “This isn’t about porn, this is about humiliation.”

Two selves.

Inequality And The Weak Recovery.

Netflix disables Chrome’s developer console.

March 6, 2014

Why is American internet so slow?

Boys report PTSD when they move to richer neighborhoods.

Why the world needs OpenStreetMap.

Highest Minimum-Wage State Washington Beats U.S. Job Growth.

A vast hidden surveillance network runs across America, powered by the repo industry.

March 5, 2014

Are plants more intelligent than we assumed?

The Relentless Bid, Explained.

The Global Economy Is Not Looking Too Great Right Now.

The Indian sanitary pad revolutionary.

March 4, 2014

Our next big crisis will be a retirement crisis.

The Creature Feature: 10 Fun Facts About the Kakapo.

Critical crypto bug leaves Linux, hundreds of apps open to eavesdropping.

Chomsky: How America’s Great University System Is Getting Destroyed.

When May I Shoot a Student?

March 3, 2014

Usain Bolt’s superhuman speed would give him the power of flight on Titan. And nearly any non-American could fly on the Moon if it had earth-normal atmospheric pressure.

“Having a B.A. is less about obtaining access to high paying managerial and technology jobs and more about beating out less-educated workers for the barista or clerical job.”

How the Media Missed the Story of the Millennium: One Climate Blockbuster after Another.

Watch out, creative class: Robots are coming after your jobs, too.

Keurig’s next generation of coffee machines will have DRM lockdown.

Dismantling Fukushima: The World’s Toughest Demolition Project.

March 1, 2014

Was American independence worth fighting for?

I don’t want to be a rare successful female writer. I just want to be a successful writer.

What it is like to grow up in Hezbollah culture.

Business and the Minimum Wage.

February 28, 2014

California Reaped Large Savings by Diverting Drug-Using Offenders Into Treatment.

30 Million Acres of Unused Land …..The American Lawn.

24-bit color sucks.

February 27, 2014

The Videogame That Finally Made Me Feel Like a Human Being.

Harriet the Spy: The most unlikable hero in children’s lit.

Police Chief Says Jaywalkers Should Be Grateful Police Don’t RAPE Them.

Keeping Terrorist Sabotage of Our Infrastructure in Context.

Lesser Evil Dems Faux-Fight for Near-Starvation Minimum Wage.

Meth Panic! American Media’s Drug Hysteria Vilifies Poor People.

February 26, 2014

The audacious rescue plan that might have saved space shuttle Columbia.

The shocking numbers behind corporate welfare.

Only 90s Web Developers Remember This.

February 25, 2014

The internet is fucked.

February 24, 2014

La douleur exquise.

February 23, 2014

Americans Are Getting Gouged Over LTE Data Speeds And Costs.

My life in London’s houseboat slums.

One of the Most Alarming Internet Proposals I’ve Ever Seen.

The Historical Verisimilitude of Orcs.

More Guns Means More, Not Fewer, Calls To The Police.

Welcome to Algorithmic Prison.

February 22, 2014

St. Mary’s College considers basing president’s salary off that of cleaning staff.

What Men Find Behind Female Masks.

A growing body of research supports what was once a startling conclusion: vitamins don’t help. In fact, they hamper performance.

February 21, 2014

Go Ahead, Let Your Kids Fail.

February 20, 2014

“It’s dead”: Kansas municipal Internet ban was “stabbed, shot, and hanged.”

February 19, 2014

The Creeping Expansion of Corporate Civil Rights.

Survive one Chevron fracking explosion, get a pizza and pop FREE!

Windows 8 UX designer on Metro: “It is the antithesis of a power user.”

This App Trains You to See Farther.

Wooden doll make-up.

We Are Living in Boom Times for Debt Collectors.

February 17, 2014

Santa’s revenge: Arctic ice may be putting US in a long, deep freeze.

Comcast-Time Warner Merger Really Has Nothing to do With You and Me.

February 16, 2014

The Big Idea: Pamela Ribon.

The Believer – The Empathy Exams.

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