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Congress has 36 committees. There’s a big hole in that list.

A friend recommended Arnold Schwarzenegger’s 3-part docuseries on Netflix a few days ago. And I did. The series focused on Arnie and his life in a way that portrayed him as a hero. I got that feeli…

It’s a practice that could introduce further errors into already error-prone models.

At a conference for socialist elected officials, the task is to ‘represent the movement of the future in the movement of the present.’

I opened the Royal Mail app to track a box of plants supposedly arriving today, and saw this: an estimated carbon footprint of my delivery’s emissions. That’s new. I suppose it’s …

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Multnomah County is seeking $51 billion over a disaster that was "virtually impossible" without climate change.

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A history lesson.

Research allays fears that rapid scaling back of production would hit people’s savings and pensions hard

Tech companies seem to expect that we will continue to tolerate their various solutions, without realizing that many of these innovations create more problems.

Remind me why, exactly, these guys have so much control over technological innovation?

Venture capitalists have supercharged surveillance, immiseration, and dispossession. Why should we trust them with so much power over the economy?

The bill includes public transparency requirements for social media platforms and protections for researchers, writes John Perrino.

A drug dog in Los Angeles sniffed out a soda vending machine that was packed with heroin, fentanyl, and an assault rifle. According to KTLA, Ventura County “sheriff’s deputies were in L.A. to…

Brendan was once a leader in the US white nationalist movement. But when he took the drug MDMA in a scientific study, it would radically change his extremist beliefs.

New research published in BMC Psychology sheds light on the "lying flat" lifestyle movement and its relationship to attitudes towards being single. The findings indicate that young adults who have a positive view of the lifestyle, which emphasizes relaxation and avoiding excessive work or societal pressure, also believe that they can find happiness through various sources other than romantic relationships. The results suggest that there might be a growing trend among young people to choose the single lifestyle in the future. ...

LaFawn Davis Senior Vice President of ESG at Indeed explains their findings of how LGBTQ+ employees don't want to work in states with anti-LGBTQ policies.

In the late '90s, Walmart had all the right ingredients to become the dominant online retailer. But it made some critical mistakes.

A new paper shows that rent-seeking by firms with dominant market positions has exploded since the 1980s.

“Obviously Elon can afford to pay Twitter’s bills: it’s couch cushion money for him. So he must have a reason for not doing so, which of course he’s not sharing.” Puck’s William Cohan a…

Software companies need to balance growth and profitability to create lasting value.

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At a time when the outlines of the known world were a mystery to many, and even the most powerful empires had no idea about the realms beyond their distant borders.

At Big Think, Chris Niebauer writes “Eastern philosophy says there is no “self.” Science agrees.” This concept is often difficult for Westerners to grasp, myself very much included. But…