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The Rise of One of the First Video Game Workers Unions

By Sarah Jaffe
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2034, Part I: Peril in the South China Sea

By Elliot Ackerman and Admiral James Stavridis
Business

Palantir’s God’s-Eye View of Afghanistan

By Annie Jacobsen
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Your Body, Your Self, Your Surgeon, His Instagram

By Katherine Laidlaw
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I Am Not a Soldier, but I Have Been Trained to Kill

By Rachel Monroe
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The Case for Cannibalism, or: How to Survive the Donner Party

By Cody Cassidy
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The Unsettling Truth About the ‘Mostly Harmless’ Hiker

By Nicholas Thompson
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How Many Microcovids Would You Spend on a Burrito?

By Gregory Barber
Science

If You Are Going to Survive, You Must Prepare to Fail

By John Hudson
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The Autonomous-Car Chaos of the 2004 Darpa Grand Challenge

By Alex Davies
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A 25-Year-Old Bet Comes Due: Has Tech Destroyed Society?

By Steven Levy
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The F-14 and the Secret History of the First Microprocessor

By Sarah Fallon
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Some of Our Favorite Longreads of 2020

By Mark Robinson
Science

Facial Hair Is Biologically Useless. Why Do Humans Have It?

By Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant
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Get Rich Selling Used Fashion Online—or Cry Trying

By Alden Wicker
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A Race Car Crash From Hell—and the Science That Saved Its Driver

By Rachel Lance
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One Man’s Search for the DNA Data That Could Save His Life

By Sarah Elizabeth Richards
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Death, Love, and the Solace of a Million Motorcycle Parts

By Kenneth R. Rosen
Business

Huawei, 5G, and the Man Who Conquered Noise

By Steven Levy
Security

The Scammer Who Wanted to Save His Country

By Darren Loucaides
Culture

What Writing a Pandemic Newsletter Showed Me About America

By Patrice Peck
Science

The Strange and Twisted Tale of Hydroxychloroquine

By Adam Rogers
Science

The Vulnerable Can Wait. Vaccinate the Super-Spreaders First

By Christopher Cox
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The History of Poop Is Really the History of Technology

By Harold McGee
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