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Teen Schools Professor on “No Irish Need Apply” Signs. To my grandfather, Irish, Welsh and any Slavic people were *definitely* not white.

Using stellar ‘twins’ to climb the cosmic distance ladder.

“Being Poor,” Ten Years On.

Myths of the Golden Age.

We Spoke to the Photographer Behind the Picture of the Drowned Syrian Boy.

These are beautiful.

A blueprint for apocalypse: Why the G20’s new plan spells planetary doom.

Don’t Be Afraid of Your Vagina. Society having gotten much, much more prudish in the past 30 years == worse health for women.

You Didn’t Build That Extremely Tacky Thing.

The time it takes for an animal to move its own body length is almost independent of mass, across 21 orders of magnitude.

Soaring student loan debt poses risk to nation’s future economic growth.

‘Spin current’ seen in motion for the first time.

Social media…is turning out to be more encompassing and controlling, more totalizing, than earlier media ever was. The social networks operated by companies like Facebook, Twitter and Google don’t just regulate the messages we receive. They regulate our responses.

New Japanese Paper Notebooks Featuring Vintage Science Illustrations Merged with Hand-embroidery.

Higher education’s real censors: What we’re missing in the debate over trigger warnings and “coddled” students.

While biology shows us gender can be fluid, our brains struggle to see it that way.

Sharing Slow Ideas.

If You Don’t Think You’re Replaceable by a Robot, You’re Probably Already Halfway Out The Door. Yup.

In a dark corner of the Trans-Pacific Partnership lurks some pretty nasty copyright law.

The fight between communism and free markets became identified as the face of economics, and this made it the most important branch of the social sciences.

“People think if you donate your coat to a charity you’re giving it to a poor person,” Zweig continues. But it’s more likely to end up at a place like this one in Roselle, New Jersey.

The States With The Most Gun Laws See The Fewest Gun-Related Deaths. Shocking!

A 2013 UCLA Labor Center study examining three years’ worth of state wage claims found that only 17% of workers who prevailed against their employers were able to recover any back pay. Sure it is no different anywhere else in the US.

How Microsoft’s data case could unravel the US tech industry.

P-values and statistical practice.

This Was to Be the Year of Bigger Wage Gains. It’s Not.

12 Scientists: What Is The One Fact Humanity Needs To Know.

Proof of Ongoing Foreclosure Fraud and Mortgage Document Fabrication, in Five Emails.

Biodiversity belowground is just as important as aboveground.

The dangerous idea that life is a story. Narrativists have never made sense to me.

Why Human Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence Will Evolve Together.

Rarities from My Grandfather’s House of Books.

Denny’s Market Researcher Emerges From Focus Group Shaken After Finding Out What Americans Really Want For Breakfast.

20 of the Worst PC Setups.

It’s a useful reminder, on the off chance that you need one, about how class and privilege still dominate every aspect of our society.

Survey says more women are going into programming.

Three arrested in Paris over ‘devil’s breath’ drug that turns victims into willing ‘zombies.’ Scopolamine is the strangest drug I know of.

Chiara Vigo: The last woman who makes sea silk.

Why Elephants Don’t Explode: How Nature Solves Bigness.

Why ‘GMO-free’ is a marketing ploy you shouldn’t fall for.

Hiroshima: Historians Reassess.

A simple primer for understanding China’s downturn.

The limits of language.

A review of more than 70 scientific studies provides evidence that on many crops from cocoa and citrus to palm oil and cedar, ants can control pests as efficiently – and more cheaply – than chemicals.

Google Will Soon Start Punishing Mobile Sites That Use Annoying App Install Ads. Wow, that’s actually good.

Construction approved for world’s most powerful digital camera.

The Astonishing Eggs of Alien Nations.

If You’re Lying About Being a Navy SEAL, This Man Will Catch You.

Google’s driverless cars follow all the traffic rules perfectly. That’s actually a big problem.

What Earth Will Look Like After Climate Change Transforms It.

Association Between Eating Speed and Metabolic Syndrome in a Three-Year Population-Based Cohort Study.

The majority of people who believe they are sensitive to gluten in fact are not. Food trends are fucking terrible.

HP continuing to torch its workers.

Through The Gender Lens: One Century of Cinema History. For one in every five movies of 2015, female characters never speak to each other.

The Disturbing Consequences of Seeing Your Doppelgänger.

Fibonacci Flim-Flam.

When we have to pay a lot for something nice, we appreciate it to the full. Yet as its price in the market falls, passion has a habit of fading away.

OS X Yosemite Security and Privacy Guide.

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