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/ 1 year agoHow the Unabomber’s unique linguistic fingerprints led to his capture
Similar techniques used to identify criminals have been employed to unmask anonymous authors. But they aren’t foolproof.
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/ 1 year agoWhen homes flood, who retreats and to where? We mapped thousands of buyouts and found the average move is only 7 miles, and race plays a role
Two disaster response experts mapped who gets FEMA buyouts and where they go. It turns out, they don’t go far.
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/ 1 year agoEU files antitrust charges against Google – here’s how the ad tech at the heart of the case works
Antitrust suits against Google for its advertising practices center on the technology for buying and selling online ads. A computer scientist...
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/ 1 year agoWhy the Federal Reserve’s epic fight against inflation might be over
The Fed said it’s pausing its aggressive rate-hiking campaign as it collects more data on the impact.
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/ 1 year agoHow the exposure of highly-classified documents could harm U.S. security — and why there are laws against storing them insecurely
The federal indictment against Donald Trump identifies categories of risk to the United States and its allies due to his alleged...
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/ 1 year agoHow Black Americans combated racism from beyond the grave
Tombstones that used the honorifics ‘Mr.’ and ‘Mrs.’ restored a sense of dignity to people who had been denied it in...
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/ 1 year agoForensic evidence suggests Paleo-Americans hunted mastodons, mammoths and other megafauna in eastern North America 13,000 years ago
A forensic technique more often used at modern crime scenes identified blood residue from large extinct animals on spearpoints and stone...
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/ 1 year agoWhy this year’s summer solstice matters so much for a new religious movement mired in controversy
3HO was founded in 1969, and SDI followed five years later. What are they, and what is the significance of the...
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/ 1 year agoEvents in Bolivia and Brazil may signal a turning point for the Catholic Church’s sexual abuse crisis in Latin America
Public outrage over alleged abuse has been muted in much of Latin America for years, partly because the church remains one...
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/ 1 year agoWildfire smoke and dirty air are also climate change problems: Solutions for a world on fire
So much pollution goes into the air today that even without wildfire smoke, 99% of the global population breathes unhealthy air.
