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Weighing Big Tech’s Promise to Black America

By Victor Luckerson
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Day One at the Every: An Excerpt From Dave Eggers’ New Novel

By Dave Eggers
Science

In a Tiny Arctic Town, Food Is Getting Harder to Come By

By Devi Lockwood
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Is Becky Chambers the Ultimate Hope for Science Fiction?

By Jason Kehe
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Greg LeMond and the Amazing Candy-Colored Dream Bike

By Adrienne So
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Rain Boots, Turning Tides, and the Search for a Missing Boy

By Katherine Laidlaw
Science

Pigeons, Curves, and the Traveling Salesperson Problem 

By Ian Stewart
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One Woman’s Mission to Rewrite Nazi History on Wikipedia

By Noam Cohen
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Artificial Intelligence and the ‘Gods Behind the Masks’

By Kai-Fu Lee and Chen Qiufan
Science

So … What If Aliens’ Quantum Computers Explain Dark Energy?

By Stephon Alexander
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Meet the Little-Known Genius Who Helped Make Pixar Possible

By Steven Levy
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Can Robots Evolve Into Machines of Loving Grace?

By Meghan O'Gieblyn
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Looks That Quill: The Dark Side of Hedgehog Instagram

By Noelle Mateer
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The Pain Was Unbearable. So Why Did Doctors Turn Her Away?

By Maia Szalavitz
Ideas

The Truth About the Quietest Town in America 

By Stephen Kurczy
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A People’s History of Black Twitter, Part III

By Jason Parham
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Hundreds of Ways to Get S#!+ Done—and We Still Don’t

By Clive Thompson
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A People’s History of Black Twitter, Part II

By Jason Parham
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A People’s History of Black Twitter, Part I

By Jason Parham
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A Son Is Rescued at Sea. But What Happened to His Mother?

By Evan Lubofsky
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Prisoners, Doctors, and the Battle Over Trans Medical Care

By Aviva Stahl
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When the Next Animal Plague Hits, Can This Lab Stop It?

By Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley
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How Fringe Stem Cell Treatments Won Allies on the Far Right

By Lindsay Gellman
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One Man’s Plan to Resurrect the Animal Species We Can’t Save

By Natasha Bernal
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