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Black Hole

Our favorite science and tech stories of 2019

There was no weirder, funnier, or more delightful story published on our website this past year than John Kennedys epic, 12-hour-plus attempt to make mac and cheese in a plastic bag, stovetop. Its got everything you might hope for in a work of serious first-p…

bubmagDecember 31, 2019

Machine Learning

Woman says she was raped by legal aid lawyer after being trafficked to UK

Aisha* has suffered unspeakable levels of sexual violence throughout her life but has faced hurdle after hurdle from the Home Office in her attempt to be granted asylum in the UK. The 40-year-old, who is an orphan, was forced into marrying a man old enough t…

bubmagDecember 31, 2019

Filter Bubble

GenderMeme – Brown Institute

How much media do we read that is written from a male perspective? A lot. Do we wish that we could hear more diverse voices in the media we consume? Yes. And can we do something about that? We believe so. GenderMeme is a product that takes in a stream of…

bubmagDecember 31, 2019

Ukrainian Revolution

Pictures of the decade show incredible ups and downs of life around the world since 2010

Pictures of the decade show the incredible ups and downs of life around the world since 2010 - including the Notre Dame fire, Donald Trump meeting Kim Kardashian and the marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton. The last ten years have brought us many i…

bubmagDecember 31, 2019

Cold War

Ingenious Cold War keylogger the Russians used to bug Selectric typewriters in the US embassy

In the 1970s, the Soviets managed to intercept top secret communications in the US embassy in Moscow and nobody could figure out how. While an antenna was eventually found hidden in the embassy's chimney, it took years to determine how what data was being col…

bubmagDecember 31, 2019

Trickle-Down

Virginia Bill Would End Single-Family-Only Zoning in the Old Dominion

Virginia is the latest state to consider sweeping state-level housing reform. A new bill would legalize duplexes on residential land statewide, making the Old Dominion the third state, after Oregon and California, to essentially abolish single-family zoning. …

bubmagDecember 31, 2019

Yemen Civil War

LISTEN: TOI reporters on the past decade — and its impact on our future

To mark the close of this centurys terrible teens, The Times of Israel asked its reporters and editors to choose one significant shift in their areas of coverage and explain how this issue may continue to influence their beats in the future. We received answ…

bubmagDecember 31, 2019

Electric Scooter

Opinion: It’s Embarrassing That Electric Bikes And Scooters Are Still Illegal In New York

The Segway should have revolutionized personal transportation. The device supposedly destined to reshape the urban landscape was unveiled to a bemused audience on Good Morning America in December, 2001. Alright, there it is. Now what does it do? asked a skept…

bubmagDecember 31, 2019

Virtual Reality

4 Trends that are Transforming the Future of Healthcare

From drinking ones own urine as a cure for broken bones to blood-letting to sending electrical shocks through a persons body as a cure for mental illness — healthcare has a somewhat jaded past. Fortunately, as technology has improved our ability to study huma…

bubmagDecember 31, 2019

Our favorite science and tech stories of 2019

Top 10 API Articles of 2019 Based on Twitter Traffic

Woman says she was raped by legal aid lawyer after being trafficked to UK

GenderMeme – Brown Institute

Pictures of the decade show incredible ups and downs of life around the world since 2010

Ingenious Cold War keylogger the Russians used to bug Selectric typewriters in the US embassy

Virginia Bill Would End Single-Family-Only Zoning in the Old Dominion

LISTEN: TOI reporters on the past decade — and its impact on our future

Opinion: It’s Embarrassing That Electric Bikes And Scooters Are Still Illegal In New York

4 Trends that are Transforming the Future of Healthcare

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