The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable. | | | | Reese Witherspoon in Big Little Lies. If she doesn't get an EMMY, then who should?
(HBO) | | | | |  | “The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.”
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 | FiveThirtyEight |
| So why won’t the media admit as much? | | |
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 | TED Talks |
| Hacking, fake news, information bubbles ... all these and more have become part of the vernacular in recent years. But as cyberspace analyst Laura Galante describes in this alarming talk, the real target of anyone looking to influence geopolitics is dastardly simple: it's you. | | |
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 | The Verge |
| The beta for Hulu’s new live TV service launches today for $39.99 per month. | | |
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 | Vanity Fair |
| A skyrocketing interest in Amedeo Modigliani’s work is producing Picasso-level price tags, with major museum shows stoking the flame. Buyers are wary, though: the mystery surrounding one of the world’s most-faked artists has led to death threats, lawsuits, and hoaxes. | | |
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 | BBC |
| An empathy-building exercise hopes to reshape one rapidly changing community of Fargo, North Dakota | | |
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 | BuzzFeed |
| American Media -- the company behind the "National Enquirer," Radar Online, and a handful of others -- recently acquired "Us Weekly." Its editorial director, Dylan Howard, has an old-fashioned newfangled vision for the future of the tabloid in the era of Trump. | | |
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 | The Atlantic |
| Digital technologies make it easier for people to copy the work of other artists-yet the same tools make it more likely for them to get caught. | | |
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 | Racked |
| One-fifth of American students wear them. But do they level the playing field or just further marginalize poor kids? | | |
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 | Aeon Magazine |
| Social problems are fantastically complex, while human minds are severely under-engineered. Is democracy doomed? | | |
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 | Bloomberg |
| Dish, Sling, AT&T and others are working out how to streamline their offerings... and make money. | | |
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 | Timeline |
| Two centuries after Helen Jewett, we’ve got TMZ. | | |
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 | Sports Illustrated |
| Watch the first complete virtual reality climb of Mount Everest. | | |
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 | Mosaic |
| Can virtual reality really soothe pain? Jo Marchant meets the doctors who say yes, and who hope this is a solution for the country consuming 80 per cent of the world’s opioid supply: the United States of America. | | |
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 | The Media Briefing |
| "The future of journalism will increasingly depend on consumers paying for the news directly, as content distributors like Facebook and Google take up the lion’s share of digital advertising dollars." | | |
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 | Engadget |
| And everything else you need to know about Parliament's new legislation. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| The rising superpower has built up enormous holdings in poor, resource-rich African countries -- but its business partners there aren’t always thrilled. | | |
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 | The Outline |
| The radio used to determine how artists made music. Streaming is changing everything. | | |
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| The New York Times |
| The new F.C.C. chairman’s plan to slacken net neutrality rules is a boon to tech giants and a bane to competitors and innovators. | | |
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 | Glossy |
| "Teen Vogue’s" political voice has spawned coverage of its own, with publications like "The Atlantic" and "The Guardian" all hoping to answer the question, “How did 'Teen Vogue' become a platform for young political activists?” | | |
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 | Field & Stream |
| Why the battle over public lands is one sportsmen must win. | | |
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 | Tech in Asia |
| Maybe it’s the jet lag. When I sit down with Dave McClure, founding partner of 500 Startups, he’s surprisingly mellow. The swashbuckling and infamously swearing seed investor -- whose experience in Silicon Valley pre-dates the PayPal mafia -- is understated as we chat at the Global Mobile Internet Conference (GMIC) in Beijing. | | |
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 | Datafiniti |
| It’s difficult to miss the degree of variety beer lovers can enjoy at this moment in the US. This is due to the explosion of small breweries coming on to the scene, which emphasize experimenting with flavors and styles. | | |
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