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What Went Wrong In Flint |
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Anna Maria Barry-Jester, FiveThirtyEight |
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More than a year after residents started sounding alarm bells, it’s now clear that employees at the state’s Department of Environmental Quality collected insufficient data and ignored the warning signs visible in what they did collect. In the process, they allowed the residents of Flint to be poisoned. |
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I was 35 when I discovered I'm on the autism spectrum. Here's how it changed my life. |
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Zack Smith, Vox |
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In retrospect, they seemed more worried about how worked up I was over this than the possibility of an actual diagnosis. There's a stigma attached to autism that leads many families to avoid a diagnosis. But in attempting to diagnose yourself, it can feel like the things that make you unique are aspects of some sort of affliction, one that is permanent and incurable. |
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Siri, Alexa and Other Virtual Assistants Put to the Test |
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Brian X. Chen, The New York Times |
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These companies are presenting scorecards of their progress with quarterly earnings reports in the next few weeks, so what better time to hand out report cards to their artificially intelligent assistants? |
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The Best Teacher I Never Had |
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Bill Gates, Personal Blog |
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Feynman had this amazing knack for making physics clear and fun at the same time. I immediately went looking for more of his talks, and I’ve been a big fan ever since. |
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The Useless Agony of Going Offline |
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Matthew J. X. Malady, The New Yorker |
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At midnight on New Year’s Eve, my wife and I exchanged a kiss. We used wooden spatulas to bang on some pots. Then the experiment began, and I did not look at my phone or computer for the next three days. |
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The Man Who Would Tame Cancer |
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John Steele, Nautilus |
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Patrick Soon-Shiong wants to turn cancer treatment upside down. On January 12, Soon-Shiong and a consortium of industry, government, and academia announced the launch of the Cancer MoonShot 2020, an ambitious program aiming to replace a long history of blunt trial-and-error treatment with what amounts to a training regiment for the body’s own immune system. |
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Death of a Troll |
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Alina Simone, The Guardian |
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In the heat of an online feud, he had been known to hack into people’s accounts and delete them. And he routinely doxxed other players, using his programming skills to reveal details about their offline identities – their weight, their age, even photographs of their home. |
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