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I Tried The Goop Jade Egg to Awaken My Sexual Chakras Or Something

Goop claims it gives you sexual energy. Doctors say it could give you TSS.
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Barry Goldwater: The Birth (and Rebirth) of the Republican Party’s Dark Side

1968 Reduxed and Revisited: Look How Far We’ve Come (That Was Sarcasm) — Part 1 of 5
John Fisher

Maybe Utopia is Terrifying

but it beats the hell out of the alternative
Conrad Shaw

Net Neutrality: The Reality

On December 14, the FCC will vote to change the net as we know it. But has the open internet already been destroyed?
E Price

Back in 2011, 50 Cent got into hot water over a penny stock.

Thomas McMullan

The Work of Art in the Age of Algorithmic Reproduction

Thomas McMullan

The Making of an Upset

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Don’t fall for the hype — Why Bitcoin’s $10,000 Price Doesn’t Reflect Its True Value.

Here are some examples of financial news headlines from the last few days:

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Is AlphaZero really a scientific breakthrough in AI?

As you may probably know, DeepMind has recently published a paper on AlphaZero [1], a system that learns by itself and is able to master…

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Jose Camacho Collados

Cat Person: Fact and Fiction

By now you’ve probably seen “Cat Person”, that New Yorker story going around about a young woman in her early twenties dating a shitty dude…

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R.S. Mason

Act now to save the internet as we know it

In just two days, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will vote on a proposal that would fatally undermine net neutrality in the US…

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The Work of Art in the Age of Algorithmic Reproduction

As artificial intelligence seeps into our lives, artists are exploring AI both as a tool and in its impact on our humanness.

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Thomas McMullan

Does Anybody Have a Smart Home?

I was recently at a conference where a speaker asked the audience: put your hand up if you have a “smart home”. Very slowly three out of…

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Oisin Hanrahan

On the Nature of Little Gestures

The other night, I was watching the tired flow of Karu Site’s night market.

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Joseph Chibike

To Survive Amazon, Direct-To-Consumer Startups Will Become Luxury Brands

The next wave of VCBs will look more like Apple, than Amazon

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I, Cat Person

On being the women version of Robert

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J.T Leroy is My Daddy

I remember writing that in a journal when I was a young secret writer. I wrote poems that copied the cadence and tenor of the beats, I…

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Shannon Barber
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Oh, I hate that guy

Between mouthfuls of pizza, we all sat in my living room and talked about our lives—the four of us, grown up girls. Instead of the camp…

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Courtney Greenberg
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Boardroom trial

The entrance was plain, as was the waiting room. I had imagined pure white, glowing clean linoleum floors, high-pitched screams, hysterical…

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Courtney Greenberg
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The Untold Story of How Massive Success Made GoPro’s CEO Lose His Way. Can He Recover?

Nick Woodman created GoPro to reflect his own freewheeling image. It worked really well. Until it didn’t.

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Facebook Messenger Update Targets Augmented Reality Features in Snapchat

Continuing its unrelenting (and mostly successful) campaign against Snapchat, on Tuesday, Facebook announced the addition of “World Effects…

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3 Reasons Firefox Quantum Is the Best Browser for Android

Mozilla’s Firefox has always been a highly praised internet browser. Since it’s open-source, users know what they’re getting without any…

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Gadget Hacks

Dealing with “Security Nihilists”

Tell me.

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Tony Robinson

WebXR is going to bring VR and AR to the masses. Here’s why.

Last week I wrote about how Amazon quietly released a new product called Sumerian which does something killer: makes it easy for anyone to…

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Owen Williams
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Why I don’t want to grow up

I had an experience recently which really summed up my frustration with the problem of “growing up.”

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Michelle Ku

Seven Best Worst Comments Received For My ‘Seven Best Worst Films Ever Made’ Piece

The wonderful thing about publishing on the internet is the range of insightful, generous, and supportive comments my writing receives…

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Tom Mitchell
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Writing in English (and getting screwed with pants on)

Remember the movie “Saving Private Ryan”? At the finale battle, everybody prepared for the endgame. Private Ryan and Captain Miller were in…

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Herr Fung
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The One Big Thing That Kills Your Creativity

How the way Children think can help you overcome your biggest creative blocks

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Eugene K. Choi

Seek Feedback, Ignore Criticism

“It is not the critic who counts.” –Theodore Roosevelt

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Jeff Goins
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Breakthrough Innovations Often Come From The Most Unlikely Places

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I Critique Dick Pics

Self-explanatory

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Artificial intelligence is guiding venture capital to start-ups

Firms are using algorithms to uncover potential investments.

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The Myth of a Fossil Fuel Phase-Out

How we use energy is a hot topic for a warming world, and fears of pollution and resource strain have produced an arms race of energy…

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Project Syndicate
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Cryptic Russian Crusader Says His $5 Billion App Can’t Be Bought

By Stepan Kravchenko, Nour Al Ali, and Ilya Khrennikov

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I, Cat Person

On being the women version of Robert

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melissa mcewen
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A Working-Class Clothing Brand in Today’s America

Carhartt navigates the murky waters

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The Book James Baldwin Couldn’t Bring Himself to Write

‘Remember This House’ was supposed to look at the legacy of great civil rights leaders, but it never saw the light of day

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Kristopher Jansma
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This 6-Year-Old Makes $11 Million a Year on YouTube. Here’s What His Parents Figured Out

He shoots videos on the weekend, when he’s out of school. And some of them have billions of views.

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inc. magazine
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When Being in Crowded Places Feels Scarier Than Ever

By Katie Heaney

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