“Stretchy seaweed, reverse vending machines, QR-coded take-out boxes: They’re how we can break society’s absurd addiction to single-use plastics.”
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From Silicon to Slime
“Claire L. Evans on imagination as a form of computation, and the endless entanglement of our biological reality.”
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Inside the Texas Crime Lab That’s Cracked Hundreds of Cold Cases
“The killing of Catherine Edwards, in Beaumont, long remained unsolved. Then came Othram, a start-up whose breakthroughs in DNA technology are helping identify bodies and solve decades-old murders and rapes.”
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Inside the “Broletariat Revolution”
“Tech elites hate the media. So they’re taking a page from Fox News.”
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Inside Snapchat’s Teen Opioid Crisis
“Law-enforcement sources and grieving families allege that the social media giant Snapchat has helped fuel a teen-overdose epidemic across the country. Now, their parents are fighting back.”
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The Titan Submersible Disaster Shocked the World. The Exclusive Inside Story Is More Disturbing Than Anyone Imagined
“A year after OceanGate’s sub imploded, thousands of leaked documents and interviews with ex-employees reveal how the company’s CEO cut corners, ignored warnings, and lied in his fatal quest to reach the Titanic.”
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I Went Undercover as a Secret OnlyFans Chatter. It Wasn’t Pretty
“Your online influencer girlfriend is actually a rotating cast of low-wage workers. I became one of them.”
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Dear Tim Cook: Be a Decent Human Being and Delete this Revolting Apple Ad
“This ad breaks things. By implication, it threatens to break people, or at least their livelihoods.”
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We Need To Rewild The InternetÂ
“The internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture. But we can revitalize it using lessons learned by ecologists.”
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