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Social media platforms aren’t equipped to handle the negative effects of their algorithms abroad. Neither is the law.

yesterday 7

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Tiffany Ng

How TikTok Shop ads turned an obscure, inaccurate book into a bestseller

If you’ve spent enough time scrolling through TikTok, you might have seen a video from an account like @tybuggyreviews, a handle with half a...

yesterday 6

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A.w. Ohlheiser

North America’s biggest city is running out of water

Mexico City is parched. After abysmally low amounts of rainfall over the last few years, the reservoirs of the Cutzamala water system that supplies...

yesterday 10

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Caroline Houck

What a Zoom cashier 8,000 miles away can tell us about the future of work

Questions of how a new technology will change the way we work have only become more pressing since OpenAI’s Chat-GPT burst onto the scene in late...

yesterday 10

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Whizy Kim

Why does this forest look like a fingerprint?

Deep in the geographic center of Uruguay, there’s a peculiar group of trees just a few kilometers down the road from the small town of San Gregorio...

yesterday 4

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Christophe Haubursin

Even as bird flu looms, the world is unlearning Covid’s lessons

The simmering fears over bird flu should leave no doubt: The health of humans and our fellow animals is inextricably linked. Covid-19 was likely...

previous day 10

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Dylan Scott

Israel and Hamas aren’t that far apart in ceasefire talks

The war in Gaza hangs in the balance this week as Israel ramps up for what many predict could be the bloodiest battle of the war, while at the same...

previous day 10

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Joshua Keating

Some say AI will make war more humane. Israel’s war in Gaza shows the opposite.

Israel has reportedly been using AI to guide its war in Gaza — and treating its decisions almost as gospel. In fact, one of the AI systems being...

previous day 10

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Sigal Samuel

Drake and Kendrick Lamar don’t care about misogyny

The first weekend of May was the ultimate gift to rap fans. After more than a month of subliminal barbs and third-party interference, Drake and...

previous day 9

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Kyndall Cunningham

John Fetterman has beef with no-kill meat

Last week, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill into law to ban cell-cultivated or “lab-grown” meat from the Sunshine State. “Take your fake...

previous day 10

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Kenny Torrella

The real science behind the billionaire pursuit of immortality

previous day 10

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Jacob Sweet

Eurovision says it’s “apolitical.” History says otherwise.

The annual Eurovision Song Contest kicked off yesterday and is bracing for protests and audience disruptions over Israel’s inclusion in the event...

previous day 10

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Haleema Shah

“Climate-friendly” beef could land in a meat aisle near you. Don’t fall for it.

One species accounts for around 10 percent of all global greenhouse gas emissions: the cow. Every few months, like clockwork, environmental...

previous day 8

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Kenny Torrella

The US paused a weapons shipment to Israel. Is it a real shift in policy?

Israel’s operation in Rafah, the southernmost city in Gaza that houses more than a million displaced Palestinians, may have finally forced the...

previous day 9

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Nicole Narea

What does divesting from Israel really mean?

A core demand at the heart of the protests over the war in Gaza currently roiling college campuses across the US and around the world: that...

tuesday 20

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Nicole Narea

Why the Met Gala still matters

On Monday night, some of the biggest celebrities in the country, dressed in their finest and most outrageous couture, assembled at the steps of New...

tuesday 9

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Constance Grady

Eurovision is supposed to be fun and silly. This year is different.

For taxonomic purposes, Eurovision is an international song contest. Technically, the European Broadcast Union (EBU) created the event in 1956 to...

tuesday 10

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Alex Abad-Santos

If you want to belong, find a third place

tuesday 20

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Allie Volpe

Your phone can tell when you’re depressed

If you have a sore throat, you can get tested for a host of things — Covid, RSV, strep, the flu — and receive a pretty accurate diagnosis (and...

tuesday 10

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Celia Ford

Here’s what sociologists want you to know about teen suicide

Between 2000 and 2015 in an affluent, predominately white community in the US, 19 young people died by suicide through what’s known as suicide...

tuesday 10

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Rachel M. Cohen

How AI tells Israel who to bomb

Israel’s war with Hamas, in response to the attacks of October 7, 2023, has led to more fatalities than in any previous Israeli war, with at least...

tuesday 10

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Rajaa Elidrissi

Israel’s Rafah operation, explained

Israel’s long-threatened invasion of Rafah looks like it could be imminent. Israel conducted airstrikes Monday on the southern Palestinian city,...

06.05.2024 20

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Ellen Ioanes

A rare burst of billions of cicadas will rewire our ecosystems for years to come

This spring is a very good time to be a bird. In forests across the Midwest and Southeast, the ground is about to erupt with billions of loud,...

06.05.2024 80

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Benji Jones

America’s prison system is turning into a de facto nursing home

06.05.2024 30

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Abdallah Fayyad

The one huge obstacle standing in the way of progress on gene-editing medicine

06.05.2024 5

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Charlotte Hu

Vox Announces Additions to Its Audio Team

Vox managing editor Natalie Jennings announced today that Gabrielle Berbey, Peter Balonon-Rosen, and Andrea Kristinsdottir are joining the site’s...

06.05.2024 10

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Vox Communications

How the Met Gala became the fashion Oscars

On Monday night, some of the biggest celebrities in the country, dressed in their finest and most outrageous couture, will assemble at the steps of...

06.05.2024 10

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Constance Grady

Drake vs. everyone, explained

To borrow a phrase from our foremost cultural observer, Azealia Banks, the boys are fighting. Since the explosive drop of producer Metro Boomin and...

06.05.2024 2

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Kyndall Cunningham

Your guide to 2024’s rare cicadapocalypse

For the first time in 221 years, this spring will see billions, if not trillions, of cicadas take to the skies in a rare synchronized event that...

06.05.2024 10

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Brian Resnick

Watch Sir David Attenborough seduce a cicada with the snap of his fingers

In the coming weeks, billions of periodical cicadas will rise up from the ground across the midwestern and southeastern United States. As they do,...

06.05.2024 10

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Brian Resnick

What Israel’s shutdown of Al Jazeera means

Israel’s decision to shut down Al Jazeera’s operations in the country signaled an escalation in an already hostile environment for journalists...

06.05.2024 20

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Nicole Narea

How lip gloss became the answer to Gen Z’s problems

In 2007, it was hard to go anywhere without hearing someone chanting the lyrics to Lil Mama’s signature bop “Lip Gloss.” In the song, the...

05.05.2024 20

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Kyndall Cunningham

How do I stop living paycheck to paycheck?

05.05.2024 20

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Nicole Dieker

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