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The Viral ‘Study’ About Runners Spreading Coronavirus Is Not Actually a Study - VICE

vice.com/en_us/article/v74az9/the-viral-study-about-runners-spreading-coronavirus-is-not-actually-a-study
Belgian researchers chose to bypass all standard science publishing protocols to publish research that has been overhyped and isn't well understood.

Some People

kottke.org/20/03/some-people

Cross-Cultural Design – A List Apart

alistapart.com/article/cross-cultural-design/

Wikipedia Is the Last Best Place on the Internet | WIRED

wired.com/story/wikipedia-online-encyclopedia-best-place-internet/
People used to think the crowdsourced encyclopedia represented all that was wrong with the web. Now it's a beacon of so much that's right.

David Brooks: The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake - The Atlantic

theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/03/the-nuclear-family-was-a-mistake/605536/

Processed World

processedworld.com/home.html

OnlyFans: a day in the life of a top(less) creator | 1843

1843magazine.com/people/onlyfans-a-day-in-the-life-of-a-topless-creator

How Spices Have Made, and Unmade, Empires - The New York Times

nytimes.com/2019/11/27/t-magazine/spices.html

href.cool: Links of the 2010s

href.cool/2010s/

The People Who Eat the Same Lunch Every Day - The Atlantic

theatlantic.com/family/archive/2019/03/eating-the-same-thing-lunch-meal/584347/

Digital media use and mental health - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_media_use_and_mental_health

Being Busy Is Eliminating the Joys of Shared Free Time - The Atlantic

theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/11/why-dont-i-see-you-anymore/598336/
Our unpredictable and overburdened schedules are taking a dire toll on American society.

Cash/Consent | Issue 35 | n+1

nplusonemag.com/issue-35/essays/cashconsent/

Why Are Rich People So Mean? | WIRED

wired.com/story/why-are-rich-people-so-mean/

Facing the Great Reckoning Head-On - danah boyd - Medium

medium.com/@zephoria/facing-the-great-reckoning-head-on-8fe434e10630

3 tribes of programming

josephg.com/blog/3-tribes/

The Real Dark Web

sonniesedge.net/posts/real-dark-web/

The best tourist secret attraction is the grocery store.

nymag.com/urbanist/article/the-best-tourist-secret-attraction-is-the-grocery-store.html

The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet – OneZero

onezero.medium.com/the-dark-forest-theory-of-the-internet-7dc3e68a7cb1
In his sci-fi trilogy The Three Body Problem, author Liu Cixin presents the dark forest theory of the universe. When we look out into space, the theory goes, we’re struck by its silence. It seems…

[1904.09954] Why Software Projects need Heroes (Lessons Learned from 1100+ Projects)

arxiv.org/abs/1904.09954