A People’s History of Black Twitter, Part III
Elzie: I miss the hood days on Twitter, the good days. It’s not that fun to me anymore. Wesley Lowery,
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Hundreds of Ways to Get S#!+ Done—and We Still Don’t
Something about the future defeats our imaginative capacity. “Present self screws over future self,” says Tim Pychyl, a psychologist at
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A People’s History of Black Twitter, Part II
Rising Up, 2012–2016 Following the death of Trayvon Martin, Black Twitter launched an online campaign in support of Martin and
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A People’s History of Black Twitter, Part I
Near the end of 2009, during the twilight months of a decade that saw the first Black man elected to
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Prisoners, Doctors, and the Battle Over Trans Medical Care
Stephen Levine was born in 1942 in Pittsburgh. He wanted to be a doctor from the time he was a
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When the Next Animal Plague Hits, Can This Lab Stop It?
There were 16 pathogens on the terrorist’s list, written in tall, spiky scribbles that slanted across the page. Next to
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He Thought He Could Outfox the Gig Economy. He Was Wrong
The work didn’t come naturally—“You’re pushed to treat people like products,” he says—but it was a job he could do
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What If Doctors Are Always Watching, but Never There?
This new system, which continually monitors and collects patient data, has recently gone wireless. It is being tested on patients
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What Really Happened When Google Ousted Timnit Gebru
In April 1998, two Stanford grad students named Larry Page and Sergey Brin presented an algorithm called PageRank at a
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One Man’s Amazing Journey to the Center of the Bowling Ball
Sposato patented his diamond-shaped core, which he claims produces 20 percent more inertia than any competitor, and placed it in
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