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Why Isn't There A Male Pill Yet? - Digg
http://digg.com/2016/why-is-there-a-male-pill-mosaic
Posted April 3, 2017
killscreen.com - April 3, 2017
https://killscreen.com/articles/survivor-can-teach-us-emergent-gameplay
Posted April 3, 2017
An oral history of A Special Thing, the world’s most important comedy message board
http://kernelmag.dailydot.com/issue-sections/headline-story/15503/the-most-important-comedy-message-board-in-the-world-an-oral-history-of-a-special-thing/
Posted April 3, 2017
Secrets of the MIT Poker Course
https://mentalfloss.atavist.com/secrets-of-the-mit-poker-course
Posted April 3, 2017
What the Mast Brothers Scandal Tells Us About Ourselves - Eater
http://www.eater.com/2015/12/23/10657022/what-the-mast-brothers-scandal-tells-us-about-ourselves
Posted April 3, 2017
Film vs. digital: the most contentious debate in the film world, explained - Vox
http://www.vox.com/2016/1/5/10714588/film-digital-35mm-70mm-explainer
Posted April 3, 2017
Here's What to Do If You Actually Win the Powerball
https://mic.com/articles/132213/here-s-what-to-do-if-you-actually-win-the-powerball
Posted April 3, 2017
From the archive: Martin Amis on the “mild fad” of David Bowie
http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/cultural-capital/2015/04/archive-martin-amis-mild-fad-david-bowie
Posted April 3, 2017
Cash-Strapped Towns Are Un-Paving Roads They Can’t Afford to Fix
https://www.wired.com/2016/07/cash-strapped-towns-un-paving-roads-cant-afford-fix/
Posted WIRED
We’re not Tragically Hip fans — and yes, we’re Canadian
http://tvo.org/article/current-affairs/shared-values/-were-not-tragically-hip-fans--and-yes-were-canadian
Posted TVO.org
Log In - The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/13/us/cancer-immortality-cryogenics.html?_r=4
Posted June 9, 2016
The War on Women Is Over—and Women Lost
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/07/planned-parenthood-abortion-the-war-is-over
Posted Mother Jones
www.independent.co.uk - August 27, 2015
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/atheists-richard-dawkins-christopher-hitchens-and-sam-harris-face-islamophobia-backlash-8570580.html
Posted August 27, 2015
Bill C-51 has potential to scoop up aboriginal rights activists - Aboriginal - CBC
http://www.cbc.ca/news/aboriginal/bill-c-51-has-potential-to-scoop-up-aboriginal-rights-activists-1.3009664
Posted August 27, 2015
www.dissentmagazine.org - August 27, 2015
http://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/booked-3-what-exactly-is-neoliberalism-wendy-brown-undoing-the-demos
Posted August 27, 2015
The Open-Office Trap - The New Yorker
http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/the-open-office-trap
Posted August 27, 2015
Germany shows the way on labor - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/germany-shows-the-way-on-labor/2015/04/29/b9bc811c-ee9e-11e4-8666-a1d756d0218e_story.html?wprss=rss_opinions
Posted August 27, 2015
Joe Gould’s Real Secret - The New Yorker
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/27/joe-goulds-teeth
Posted August 27, 2015
Great Leaps Forward In Ice Cream History - Digg
http://digg.com/2015/ice-cream-history
Posted August 27, 2015
A Week In The Mysterious Sleeping Villages Of Kazakhstan - BuzzFeed News
http://www.buzzfeed.com/sarahatopol/a-week-in-the-mysterious-sleeping-villages-of-kazakhstan?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=email#.lgw8GyxvA
Posted August 27, 2015
Vienna Offers Affordable
and
Luxurious Housing
http://www.governing.com/topics/economic-dev/gov-affordable-luxurious-housing-in-vienna.html
Posted August 18, 2015
The Agrarian Origins of Capitalism
http://monthlyreview.org/1998/07/01/the-agrarian-origins-of-capitalism
Posted August 18, 2015
Making Community Land Trusts Happen, Here in New York City
http://picturethehomeless.org/blog/node/377
Posted Picture the Homeless
The Ancient Greeks’ 6 Words for Love (And Why Knowing Them Can Change Your Life) by Roman Krznaric — YES! Magazine
http://www.yesmagazine.org/happiness/the-ancient-greeks-6-words-for-love-and-why-knowing-them-can-change-your-life
Posted August 18, 2015
www.xojane.com - August 18, 2015
http://www.xojane.com/issues/it-happened-to-me-i-had-dinner-with-a-cult
Posted August 18, 2015
The World Braces For Retirement Crisis
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/retirement-crisis-great-recession
Posted August 18, 2015
Animal Cruelty Is the Price We Pay for Cheap Meat
http://www.rollingstone.com/feature/belly-beast-meat-factory-farms-animal-activists
Posted Rolling Stone
An Excerpt From Gabriel Sherman's 'The Loudest Voice in the Room' -- New York Magazine
http://nymag.com/news/features/roger-ailes-loudest-voice-in-the-room/
Posted August 18, 2015
m.rollingstone.com - August 18, 2015
http://m.rollingstone.com/politics/news/five-economic-reforms-millennials-should-be-fighting-for-20140103
Posted August 18, 2015
Defending the Middle-Class: Why We Need Unions, Pensions, and Public Employees
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-samuels/defending-the-middle-clas_b_715144.html
Posted Bob Samuels
The End of Chiropractic « Science-Based Medicine
http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-end-of-chiropractic/
Posted August 18, 2015
Supply and Demand: A Market Analysis of Chicago’s Heroin Trade, and its Residual Criminal Aspects, Written by a Junkie
http://newcity.com/2013/10/17/supply-and-demand-a-market-analysis-of-chicagos-heroin-trade-and-its-residual-criminal-aspects-written-by-a-junkie/
Posted Newcity
Stealing Mona Lisa
http://www.vanityfair.com/style/features/2009/05/mona-lisa-excerpt200905
Posted Vanity Fair
Thanksgiving in Mongolia - The New Yorker
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/11/18/131118fa_fact_levy?currentPage=all
Posted August 18, 2015
George Clooney Interview - George Clooney Talks About Matt Damon Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio
http://www.esquire.com/features/george-clooney-interview-1213
Posted August 18, 2015
Murali Krishnan's answer to What were Quora's best answers of 2013? - Quora
http://www.quora.com/Lists-of-Top-Quora-Content/What-are-Quoras-best-answers-of-2013-so-far/answer/Murali-Krishnan-27
Posted August 18, 2015
Death Dust - The New Yorker
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/01/20/140120fa_fact_goodyear?currentPage=all
Posted August 18, 2015
Peter Foster: In oil sands debate, scientists have become political advocates
http://opinion.financialpost.com/2014/01/16/peter-foster-in-oil-sands-debate-scientists-have-become-political-advocates/
Posted Financial Post
Tomgram: Nick Turse, Secret Wars and Black Ops Blowback
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175794/tomgram:_nick_turse,_secret_wars_and_black_ops_blowback/
Posted TomDispatch
www.psmag.com - August 17, 2015
http://www.psmag.com/navigation/health-and-behavior/toast-story-latest-artisanal-food-craze-72676/
Posted August 17, 2015
Log In - The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/04/us/a-calvinist-revival-for-evangelicals.html
Posted August 17, 2015
24 Invaluable Skills To Learn For Free Online This Year
http://www.buzzfeed.com/summeranne/24-invaluable-skills-to-learn-for-free-online-this-year
Posted August 11, 2015
16 Awesome Instagram Accounts From Deep In The Heart Of Texas
http://www.buzzfeed.com/mackenziekruvant/instagram-accounts-from-texas
Posted August 11, 2015
How tight jeans almost ruined America’s money - The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/12/16/how-tight-jeans-almost-ruined-americas-money/
Posted August 11, 2015
GoldieBlox: Disrupting the pink aisle or just selling toys?
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2013/11/26/goldieblox_disrupting_the_pink_aisle_or_just_selling_toys.html
Posted August 11, 2015
George Lakoff: 'Conservatives don't follow the polls, they want to change them … Liberals do everything wrong'
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/feb/01/george-lakoff-interview
Posted Books
Jawbone Is Now the Startup Apple Should Fear Most
http://www.wired.com/business/2014/02/jawbone-now-startup-apple-fear/?mbid=nl_wired_02182014
Posted WIRED
February 2014 Archives
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2014/02/netflix-deep-learning/?mbid=nl_wired_02182014
Posted WIRED
How Gadgets Ruin Relationships and Corrupt Emotions
http://www.wired.com/opinion/2014/02/gadgets-ruin-relationships-connection-illusion-one/?mbid=nl_wired_02182014
Posted WIRED
The Original Robocop Was A Christ Allegory
http://gizmodo.com/the-original-robocop-was-a-christ-allegory-1523956164
Posted August 11, 2015
Debunking the myth of Kitty Genovese
http://nypost.com/2014/02/16/book-reveals-real-story-behind-the-kitty-genovese-murder/
Posted New York Post
How the north ended up on top of the map
http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/2/maps-cartographycolonialismnortheurocentricglobe.html
Posted Al Jazeera America
This is 45: The Eye of Life's Storm
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/emily-mendell/this-is-45the-eye-of-life_b_4648004.html
Posted Emily Mendell
Wildly Detailed Drawings That Combine Math and Butterflies
http://www.wired.com/design/2014/01/insane-mathematical-illustrations-made-without-computer/?mbid=nl_wired_02042014
Posted WIRED
Eerie, Wild Scenes Straight Out of Grimm's Fairy Tales
http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2014/02/brothers-grimm-homeland/
Posted WIRED
Sherlock Isn't the Fan-Friendly Show You Think It Is
http://www.wired.com/underwire/2014/01/sherlock-fandom/
Posted WIRED
Getting to Know the Voices in Your Head - Scientific American
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/getting-to-know-the-voices-in-your-head/
Posted August 11, 2015
How Sex Affects Intelligence, and Vice Versa - The Atlantic
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/01/how-sex-affects-intelligence-and-vice-versa/282889/
Posted August 11, 2015
Today's Apps Are Turning Us Into Sociopaths
http://www.wired.com/opinion/2014/02/outsourcing-humanity-apps/
Posted WIRED
Pitchman: How Tom Emanski forever changed the sport of baseball — and then disappeared
http://www.foxsports.com/mlb/just-a-bit-outside/story/pitchman-tom-emanski-profile-071714?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=email
Posted FOX Sports
Netflix Is Building an Artificial Brain Using Amazon's Cloud
http://www.wired.com/2014/02/netflix-deep-learning/
Posted WIRED
Update Your Browser
https://www.facebook.com/notes/dave-mitchell/10-favourite-reads-from-2013/10152182881199662
Posted Facebook
North Dakota Finds Itself Unprepared To Handle The Radioactive Burden Of Its Fracking Boom
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/04/16/3427345/north-dakota-radioactive-waste-fracking/
Posted ThinkProgress
Weasley is Our King
https://unplottables.wordpress.com/weasley-is-our-king/
Posted Unplottables
H 2 OHHHHH-Capture The Water
http://www.outdoorphotographer.com/how-to/tip-of-the-week/h-2-ohhhhh-capture-the-water.html
Posted OutdoorPhotographer.com
4.12: Mother Earth Mother Board
http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/ffglass_pr.html
Posted August 11, 2015
New tests show no evidence of forgery in ‘Gospel of Jesus’s Wife’ - The Boston Globe
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/04/10/new-tests-show-evidence-forgery-gospel-jesus-wife/IusII8b4eI86HgDTKipLhN/story.html
Posted August 11, 2015
Why I'm a pro-life liberal
http://theweek.com/articles/447812/im-prolife-liberal#axzz33ArsSlEb
Posted August 11, 2015
Simplest PHP example for retrieving user_timeline with Twitter API version 1.1 - Stack Overflow
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12916539/simplest-php-example-for-retrieving-user-timeline-with-twitter-api-version-1-1/15314662#15314662
Posted August 11, 2015
A Simple Twitter Search Parser with PHP - Media Division
http://www.media-division.com/php-twitter-search-parser/
Posted August 11, 2015
Build Your First Twitter App Using PHP in 8 Easy Steps
http://iag.me/socialmedia/build-your-first-twitter-app-using-php-in-8-easy-steps/
Posted Seriously Social with Ian Anderson Gray
Amazon Prime Is One of the Most Bizarre Good Business Ideas Ever
http://www.wired.com/2015/02/amazon-prime-one-bizarre-good-business-ideas-ever/?mbid=nl_021115
Posted WIRED
The Plot to Kill the Slam Dunk
https://sports.vice.com/article/the-plot-to-kill-the-slam-dunk?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=email
Posted VICE Sports
Meet the Ultimate WikiGnome — Backchannel — Medium
https://medium.com/backchannel/meet-the-ultimate-wikignome-10508842caad
Posted August 11, 2015
Martin Scorsese, Jason Reitman Reveal How Female Film Editors Shaped Their Movies - Hollywood Reporter - Hollywood Reporter
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/martin-scorsese-jason-reitman-reveal-664559
Posted August 11, 2015
The dark, violent side of design - Quartz
http://qz.com/411026/design-and-violence/
Posted August 11, 2015
Holy Crop: How Federal Dollars Are Financing The Water Crisis In The West - Digg
http://digg.com/2015/how-federal-dollars-are-financing-the-water-crisis-in-the-west?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=email
Posted August 11, 2015
The Creepy Fundamentalist Homeschool Cult That Trained the Duggars
http://gawker.com/the-creepy-fundamentalist-homeschool-cult-that-trained-1706969994?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=email
Posted August 11, 2015
The Extreme Athlete Who Built A New Knee - Digg
http://digg.com/2015/the-extreme-athlete-who-built-a-new-knee?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=email
Posted August 11, 2015
How Terrorist Bounties Are Calculated - Defense One
http://www.defenseone.com/threats/2015/05/how-terrorist-bounties-are-calculated/113194/?oref=d-skybox
Posted August 11, 2015
Takeoff: The Oral History of Nirvana’s Crossover Moment — Cuepoint — Medium
https://medium.com/cuepoint/takeoff-the-oral-history-of-nirvana-s-crossover-moment-1b12603ed5f
Posted August 11, 2015
“Rockit” Revisited: How Herbie Hancock Crafted a Hip-Hop Classic — Cuepoint — Medium
https://medium.com/cuepoint/rockit-revisited-how-herbie-hancock-crafted-a-hip-hop-classic-12cd19406ca5
Posted August 11, 2015
Terror and the campaign to re-elect Stephen Harper: Walkom
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2015/05/22/terror-and-the-campaign-to-re-elect-stephen-harper-walkom.html
Posted Toronto Star
http://nymag.com/thecut/2015/08/serena-williams-still-has-tennis-history-to-make.html
Posted August 11, 2015
Why We See Faces Where There Aren't Any - Digg
http://digg.com/video/why-we-see-faces-that-arent-there
Posted August 11, 2015
The Death of Stephanie Lee, Patient Zero
http://www.esquire.com/lifestyle/health/a36695/death-of-stephanie-lee-0815
Posted August 11, 2015
Uber's Phantom Cabs
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/ubers-phantom-cabs
Posted Motherboard
Distorted Faces: Living With Facial Disfigurement - Digg
http://digg.com/2015/facial-discrimination
Posted August 11, 2015
Log In - The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/05/magazine/robert-franks-america.html
Posted August 11, 2015
Forget the Click? Online, Time May Be More Meaningful
http://www.wired.com/2015/06/forget-click-online-time-may-meaningful/
Posted WIRED
The tiny islands where Canada and America are at war
http://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/the-tiny-islands-where-canada-and-america-are-at-war/
Posted August 10, 2015
Looking for Lewis
http://www.maxim.com/entertainment/music/article/looking-lewis
Posted Maxim