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Where Now Grizzly Bear? | Hakai Magazine hakaimagazine.com/features/w…
Where Now Grizzly Bear? | Hakai Magazine

Where Now Grizzly Bear? | Hakai Magazine

After centuries of persecution, brown bears are showing up in some unexpected places.

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The History of CTRL + ALT + DELETE mentalfloss.com/article/5167…
The History of CTRL + ALT + DELETE

The History of CTRL + ALT + DELETE

In 2013, Bill Gates admitted ctrl+alt+del was a mistake and blamed IBM. Here's the story of how the key combination became famous in the first place.

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Crabs and Convergent Evolution: Carcinization Explained popularmechanics.com/science…
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Grapefruit Is One of the Weirdest Fruits on the Planet atlasobscura.com/articles/gr…
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The Island That Humans Can’t Conquer hakaimagazine.com/features/t…
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The West’s Infernos Are Melting Our Sense of How Fire Works wired.com/story/west-coast-c…
The West’s Infernos Are Melting Our Sense of How Fire Works

The West’s Infernos Are Melting Our Sense of How Fire Works

42,000-foot plumes of ash. 143-mph firenadoes. 1,500-degree heat. These wildfires are a new kind of hell on earth, and scientists are racing to learn its rules.

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Last Call for Gumshoes altaonline.com/private-inves…
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The Well-Tempered Synthesizer harpers.org/archive/2020/10/…
The Well-Tempered Synthesizer, by Will Stephenson

The Well-Tempered Synthesizer, by Will Stephenson

Wendy Carlos’s music of the spheres

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Nero, History's Most Despised Emperor, Gets a Makeover smithsonianmag.com/history/n…
Nero, History's Most Despised Emperor, Gets a Makeover

Nero, History's Most Despised Emperor, Gets a Makeover

For nearly 2,000 years, the Roman ruler has been depicted as an egotistical monster who fiddled while Rome burned. But is this image accurate?

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Out There: On Not Finishing longreads.com/2020/09/08/out…
Out There: On Not Finishing - Longreads

Out There: On Not Finishing - Longreads

What happens if the stories we tell ourselves about our lives leave us lonely, wrestling with meaning?

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Why every year—but especially 2020—feels like the worst ever nationalgeographic.com/scien…
Why every year—but especially 2020—feels like the worst ever

Why every year—but especially 2020—feels like the worst ever

Unfettered media consumption skews our perception of the present. Here’s how to break the cycle.

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Diary of a Fire Lookout theparisreview.org/letters-e…

Diary of a Fire Lookout by Philip Connors

My chief occupation for the past six summers has been as a fire lookout in the Black Range District of the Gila National Forest in New Mexico. For ten of every fourteen days I sit and watch for smoke...

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We’re All Socially Awkward Now nytimes.com/2020/09/01/sunda…
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The Blog Era Was Perfectly Imperfect complex.com/pigeons-and-plan…
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What the United States Did in Indonesia theatlantic.com/internationa…
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Why Did These YouTubers Give Away Their Son? thecut.com/2020/08/youtube-m…
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Just Because It’s Natural Doesn’t Mean It’s Good nautil.us/issue/89/the-dark-…
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Why 536 was ‘the worst year to be alive’ sciencemag.org/news/2018/11/…
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What Irony Is Not thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/w…
What Irony Is Not

What Irony Is Not

A handy guide to distinguishing the notoriously slippery concept from its distant cousins coincidence, satire, parody, and paradox.

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A Massive Leak of Nintendo Source Code Is Causing Chaos in Video Games vice.com/en_us/article/7kp7b…
A Massive Leak of Nintendo Source Code Is Causing Chaos in Video Games

A Massive Leak of Nintendo Source Code Is Causing Chaos in Video Games

The leak unearthed new revelations about classic games like 'Super Mario 64,' and caused a split amongst preservationists about what to do with likely stolen material.

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