Wednesday, November 30, 2016

How To Hide $400 Million


How To Hide $400 Million
When a wealthy businessman set out to divorce his wife, their fortune vanished. The quest to find it would reveal the depths of an offshore financial system bigger than the US economy.

November 30, 2016 at 10:21AM
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Tuesday, November 29, 2016

Reddit Is Tearing Itself Apart


Reddit Is Tearing Itself Apart
Reddit, in its goal to be a laissez-faire haven of (relatively) free expression, has been overrun by nationalist trolls. Its staff of volunteer moderators is losing hope in the site’s future.

November 29, 2016 at 09:54AM
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Monday, November 28, 2016

Trump falsely claims 'millions of people who voted illegally' cost him popular vote


Trump falsely claims 'millions of people who voted illegally' cost him popular vote
President-elect Donald Trump alleged Sunday, without evidence, that "millions of people" voted illegally for Hillary Clinton and otherwise he would have won the popular vote.

November 28, 2016 at 06:35AM
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Sunday, November 27, 2016

Apple may have finally gotten too big for its unusual corporate structure


Apple may have finally gotten too big for its unusual corporate structure
Functional organizations have enormous strengths, but also limits.

November 27, 2016 at 11:36AM
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Saturday, November 26, 2016

Poker hacks, "South Park" and a whole lot of St. Bernards.


Poker hacks, "South Park" and a whole lot of St. Bernards.
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November 26, 2016 at 07:10AM
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Friday, November 25, 2016

Russian propaganda effort helped spread ‘fake news’ during election, experts say


Russian propaganda effort helped spread ‘fake news’ during election, experts say
The flood of “fake news” this election season got support from a sophisticated Russian propaganda campaign that created and spread misleading articles online with the goal of punishing Democrat Hillary Clinton, according to experts.

November 25, 2016 at 08:16AM
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Thursday, November 24, 2016

TIME’s 100 Most Influential Images of All Time


TIME’s 100 Most Influential Images of All Time
See the stories behind 100 photos that changed the world

November 24, 2016 at 09:40AM
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Wednesday, November 23, 2016

$100 Billion Chinese-Made City Near Singapore 'Scares the Hell Out of Everybody'


$100 Billion Chinese-Made City Near Singapore 'Scares the Hell Out of Everybody'
A desert of dirt stretches into the distance, filled with cranes and piling towers that the Chinese developer is using to build a $100 billion city in the sea.

November 23, 2016 at 10:38AM
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Tuesday, November 22, 2016

How Jared Kushner Won Trump The White House


How Jared Kushner Won Trump The White House
The secret weapon of the Trump campaign: his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, who created a stealth data machine that leveraged social media and ran like a Silicon Valley startup. The inside story of the biggest upset in modern political history.

November 22, 2016 at 08:02AM
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Monday, November 21, 2016

As American as Apple Pie? The Rural Vote’s Disproportionate Slice of Power


As American as Apple Pie? The Rural Vote’s Disproportionate Slice of Power
Rural America, even as it decries its economic weakness, has retained electoral strength beyond its numbers.

November 20, 2016 at 08:05PM
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Sunday, November 20, 2016

The Search for My Fathers Killer


The Search for My Fathers Killer
After my father was murdered in 1973, I spent decades looking for the man who killed him. What I found changed everything I’d believed about him and the life he lived.

November 20, 2016 at 09:01AM
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Saturday, November 19, 2016

How to get drunk in a dry country, and the KFC sandwich that took over Pakistan.


How to get drunk in a dry country, and the KFC sandwich that took over Pakistan.
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November 19, 2016 at 07:35AM
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Friday, November 18, 2016

Trump Offers National Security Post to Michael Flynn, Retired General


Trump Offers National Security Post to Michael Flynn, Retired General
It was not clear whether General Flynn, who was fired as the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency in 2014 by President Obama, had accepted the position.

November 18, 2016 at 09:19AM
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Thursday, November 17, 2016

Running is the Worst Way to Get Fit


Running is the Worst Way to Get Fit
Running is a crappy way to lose fat and an inferior way to boost cardiovascular health, but it's somehow​​​ become the most popular exercise on Earth after walking.

November 17, 2016 at 11:45AM
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Wednesday, November 16, 2016

What Was the Nerd?


What Was the Nerd?
The myth of the bullied white outcast loner is helping fuel a fascist resurgence.

November 16, 2016 at 07:26AM
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Tuesday, November 15, 2016

When the Devil Enters


When the Devil Enters
Canneto Di Caronia, plagued by mysterious fires, turns to science, the church, and the law in a search for answers.

November 15, 2016 at 03:06PM
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Monday, November 14, 2016

Watch The Full '60 Minutes' Interview With President-Elect Donald Trump


Watch The Full '60 Minutes' Interview With President-Elect Donald Trump
Lesley Stahl interviewed the president-elect on matters ranging from Obamacare to immigration to protestors to racism in Donald Trump's first interview since winning the presidency.

November 14, 2016 at 07:42AM
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Sunday, November 13, 2016

Why Do So Many People Like Cats?


Why Do So Many People Like Cats?
The animal so many dote on ranks among the world’s most destructive predators.

November 13, 2016 at 12:17PM
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Friday, November 11, 2016

Leonard Cohen Dead at 82


Leonard Cohen Dead at 82
Leonard Cohen, the hugely influential singer and songwriter whose work spanned nearly 50 years, from "Suzanne" to "Hallelujah," died at the age of 82 on Thursday.

November 10, 2016 at 11:08PM
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Thursday, November 10, 2016

Thousands take to the streets to protest Trump win


Thousands take to the streets to protest Trump win
In cities from Boston to Los Angeles, thousands of demonstrators gathered Wednesday night in protest of election results that mean the billionaire real estate developer will be the next president.

November 9, 2016 at 09:24PM
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Wednesday, November 9, 2016

Donald Trump Wins The US Presidential Election — Here's What You Need To Know


Donald Trump Wins The US Presidential Election — Here's What You Need To Know
Election Day came and went, and by the end of it politics was inverted: What many thought was impossible became a reality. Here's how it happened and what you need to know.

November 9, 2016 at 03:01PM
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Tuesday, November 8, 2016

Senators demand Mylan repay Pentagon $50 million for EpiPen


Senators demand Mylan repay Pentagon $50 million for EpiPen
Pentagon spending on EpiPen rose to $57 million over the past year from $9 million in 2008. Now, a group of Senators is looking for Mylan to refund a big chunk of that.

November 7, 2016 at 07:26PM
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Monday, November 7, 2016

AOL's 'You've Got Mail' Guy Is Now An Uber Driver In Ohio


AOL's 'You've Got Mail' Guy Is Now An Uber Driver In Ohio
Hearing Elwood Edwards hits us right in the gut, reminding us of a time when it was *exciting* to get e-mail. Now, the famous voice is busy shuttling people around the Buckeye state.

November 7, 2016 at 11:20AM
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Sunday, November 6, 2016

Trump's wife worked illegally during her first weeks in the US, documents show


Trump's wife worked illegally during her first weeks in the US, documents show
Melania Trump, who received a green card in March 2001 and became a US citizen in 2006, has always maintained that she arrived in the country legally and never violated the terms of her immigration status.

November 6, 2016 at 09:24AM
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Saturday, November 5, 2016

Say an early goodbye to this election today with Slate.


Say an early goodbye to this election today with Slate.
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November 5, 2016 at 06:43AM
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Friday, November 4, 2016

My Journey to the Center of the Alt-Right


My Journey to the Center of the Alt-Right
I went to a white nationalist ethnostate in Indiana. I got bounced from a secret meeting in DC. I spent weeks figuring out how hate gurgles up from the nastiest recesses of the Internet. And I'm sorry to report that unconscionable racists will be a force in American politics well beyond November 8.

November 4, 2016 at 09:38AM
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Thursday, November 3, 2016

Chicago Cubs win crazy Game 7 to clinch first World Series title since 1908


Chicago Cubs win crazy Game 7 to clinch first World Series title since 1908
In a crazy, back-and-forth Game 7, the Cubs defeated the Cleveland Indians 8-7 in extra innings, completing a comeback from 3-1 down in the series and ending the club's World Series drought.

November 2, 2016 at 11:57PM
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Wednesday, November 2, 2016

The Simple Logical Puzzle That Shows How Illogical We Are


The Simple Logical Puzzle That Shows How Illogical We Are
This clever puzzle, known as the “Wason selection task,” is often claimed to be “the single most investigated experimental paradigm in the psychology of reasoning,” in the words of one textbook author.

November 2, 2016 at 09:31AM
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Tuesday, November 1, 2016

Was a server registered to the Trump Organization communicating with Russia’s Alfa Bank?


Was a server registered to the Trump Organization communicating with Russia’s Alfa Bank?
This spring, a group of computer scientists set out to determine whether hackers were interfering with the Trump campaign. They found something they weren’t expecting.

October 31, 2016 at 08:17PM
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