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June

2021

My website is a shifting house next to a river of knowledge. What could yours be?
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The joys of being an absolute beginner – for life
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May

2021

TikTok and the Vibes Revival
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Unseen City
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An Important but Rarely Discussed Lesson of the Stanford Prison Experiment
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Detergent packs are kinda wishy-washy (Dishwashers Explained)
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April

2021

How to sound smart in your TEDx Talk | Will Stephen | TEDxNewYork
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Oatly: The New Coke
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One Year Alone in Forest of Sweden | Building Log Cabin like our Forefathers
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Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
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What is environmental racism?
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I made a hair cutting machine
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March

2021

No More Boring Apps
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VAN NEISTAT: Fantasy Fixing
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'I'm totally anonymous': the man who has made millions from your children's favourite TV shows
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Defending Avocado Farms From Drug Cartels
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Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
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How Tyler Perry Became A Billionaire | Forbes
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February

2021

How Do Nuclear Submarines Make Oxygen? Smarter Every Day 251
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Think you drink a lot? This chart will tell you.
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Tesla's Founders On Elon Musk And The Early Days
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Same Energy: Visual Search Engine
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Hell Yeah or No
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How Many People Did Nuclear Energy Kill? Nuclear Death Toll
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SPECIAL REPORT: GOOD COLLABORATIONS ARE ART, GREAT ONES ARE KITSCH
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This Could Be Our Future
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The Lovely Swiss Villas That Could Destroy An Army
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January

2021

Becoming a better interviewer
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No Meetings, No Deadlines, No Full-Time Employees
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Ring’s crazy, flying security cam watches all corners of your home
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Illusions of Time
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DALL·E: Creating Images from Text
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Community Takes All: The Power of Social+
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This is the best explanation of gerrymandering you will ever see
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December

2020

How Bad Is Your Spotify?
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I am an Uighur who faced China’s concentration camps. This is my story.
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A New Satellite Can Peer Inside Some Buildings, Day or Night
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How China Broke the World's Recycling
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Can Shopify Compete With Amazon Without Becoming Amazon?
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Yanis Varoufakis on Making Billionaires Richer
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Building an Antilibrary: the Power of Unread Books
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How Apple Missed Its Chance to Fix Credit Cards
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November

2020

The Rise of Community-Curated Knowledge Networks
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Where the U.S. Hides its Secrets
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Why Does Nutrition Advice Always Seem to Be Changing?
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Building an Artificial Sun that Looks Unbelievably Realistic
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Browsing e-commerce: An Untapped $250B+ Opportunity
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I got COVID - Now What?
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October

2020

Website Carbon Calculator
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The Observer Effect
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When You Live in the Swiss Alps, You Can Paraglide to Work
Watch
Grapefruit Is One of the Weirdest Fruits on the Planet
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Overview
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Wealth, Shown to Scale
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Inventing Virtual Meetings of Tomorrow with NVIDIA AI Research
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Expectations
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September

2020

Trump won’t commit to peaceful transfer of power if he loses the election
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Virtuous Circle
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Trump Just Signed an Executive Order Claiming That Anti-Racism Is the Real Racism
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Material-Archiv
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Millennials will pay the price for their parents’ luck and self-indulgence
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The CEO with an Empty Calendar
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Drowning in Plastic
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How Big Oil Misled The Public Into Believing Plastic Would Be Recycled
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The Town That Facebook Built
Watch
The Future of Community Ownership with RAC
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August

2020

The Unraveling of America
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Cheap Words
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The Internet Warriors
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Half Life: The Decay of Knowledge and What to Do About It
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Finding Peace at the Top of the Music Industry
Watch
TikTok and the Sorting Hat
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July

2020

The Definition of Design
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Looks Like You Need Iceland
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How Many Priorities Can You Have?
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Ed Hardy: the Godfather of Tattooing
Watch
Reasons to be Cheerful
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Stuff You Should Know
Listen
How Two Companies Dominate The $67 Billion Art World
Watch
The Building Blocks of Interpretability
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June

2020

On the Design of Escaped Realities
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Drive & Listen
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Being Alone
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What's taboo in your country?
Watch
Life is a Single Player Game
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Slow-Reading is the New Deep Learning
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May

2020

The Other Crisis
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Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results
Watch
Outgrowing Advertising: Multimodal Business Models as a Product Strategy
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Gallery of Web Design History
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The Amazon Effect
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This is How Easy It Is to Lie With Statistics
Watch
Small Giants: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big
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April

2020

Why Zoom is Terrible
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The Intellectual Yet Idiot
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Ego Is the Enemy
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Charles Bukowski's Crappy Life
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Humanity's Temporal Range
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Signaling as a Service
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Neil Pasricha: Happy Habits
Listen

March

2020

Google Earth Timelapse
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Zero Trust Information
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Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You
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Yehwan Song wants to radically change how people think about the web
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Why We Should Turn CO2 into Concrete
Watch
The Disinformation Issue
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Name It, and They Will Come
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February

2020

The Golden Age of White Collar Crime
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I have APHANTASIA (and you may too...without realising it!)
Watch
The growing global movement to end outdoor advertising
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The Urban Village Project
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Regenerative agriculture could save soil, water, and the climate. Here’s how the U.S. government actively discourages it.
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January

2020

The Pressing Need for Everyone to Quiet Their Egos
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Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
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11 Reasons Not to Become Famous
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You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It's Making the World a Weirder Place
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The New Luxury and Why the Days of Brands Staying Neutral Are Over
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December

2019

Ghost in the Machine
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How an 18th-Century Philosopher Helped Solve My Midlife Crisis
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Creator's Mixtape #004
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Gravitas Impetus
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There’s More to Life Than Being Happy
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November

2019

Year One Mementos
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Creator's Mixtape #003
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The Future of Banking Is … You’re Broke
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Life Handed a Boy an Apple Tree
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Will Smart Machines Kill Jobs or Create Better Ones?
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Trump Investigation Guide: Impeachment, Inquiries, Lawsuits
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October

2019

Have we Gone Too Far to Ever Switch Off
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Creator's Mixtape #002
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I Feel Like This
Watch

September

2019

Data is Like Uranium
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The Price of Self-Delusion
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Creator's Mixtape #001
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John DeLorean Reinvented The Dream Car. Then He Totaled It.
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August

2019

‘Plastic recycling is a myth’: what really happens to your rubbish?
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Overnight Success
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How Quentin Tarantino Steals From Other Movies
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The Birth of the Semicolon
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Do schools kill creativity?
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How the sound in your home affects your mood
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A brief history of extremism
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‘Beautiful and terrifying’: revisiting American cities in darkness
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July

2019

To Cheat and Lie in L.A.
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This Is What Hip Hop’s Billboard Top 10 Sounded Like, Back In 1995
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Who Actually Feels Satisfied About Money?
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Was the Automotive Era a Terrible Mistake?
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Smile more often
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June

2019

The Perfect Irony that ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ Film was also a Real-Life Scam
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Death of the Calorie
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The Psychological Trap of Freelancing
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The Hottest Chat App for Teens Is … Google Docs
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Why Breaking Out of Prison is Legal in Germany
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The Secret to Warren Buffett’s Investment in Coca-Cola and Heinz
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Why Success Isn’t the Answer – Mike Poser
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