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Behind the Music at the U.S. Open - TV - Vulture
May 31, 2021 | New York Magazine
Most of the top seeds pick for themselves, sometimes challenging the sport's still-conservative image. Read the full recap.
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Vaccine waitlist Dr. B collected data from millions. But how many did it help?
May 29, 2021 | MIT Technology Review
Almost 2.5 million people signed up to Dr. B with the promise of getting leftover vaccines. Months later, the site won’t disclose how many doses it helped deliver—or what it plans to do with user data.
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Perspective | Emily Wilder’s firing is a story of bad faith, not bad tweets. Newsrooms must do better.
May 28, 2021 | Washington Post
The AP should have guided a young reporter through a crisis — not caved to a right-wing mob.
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And so the cutting begins
May 27, 2021 | Media Nation
Alden Global Capital is wasting no time in taking a chainsaw to its newly acquired newspapers. NPR media reporter David Folkenflik tweeted a thread that contains some horrifying details about what …
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GitHub Next | Flat Data
May 21, 2021 | GitHub Next
GitHub Next Project: Flat explores how to make it easy to work with data in git and GitHub. It builds on the “[git scraping” approach pioneered by Simon Willison](https://simonwillison.net/2020/Oct/9/git-scraping/) to offer a simple pattern for...
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Stop Worrying and Love the F-150 Lightning
May 21, 2021 | The Atlantic
Here are seven ways Ford’s first electric pickup truck signals that decarbonization has entered a new era.
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Watercolor Maptiles Website Enters Permanent Collection of Cooper Hewitt
May 19, 2021 | www.cooperhewitt.org
It’s not their job to buy you cake
May 10, 2021 | Nieman Lab
Working remotely for the last year has revealed just how much of office culture is accidental, arbitrary, and sexist.
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How Pfizer Makes Its Covid-19 Vaccine
May 10, 2021 | www.nytimes.com
Behind the scenes from starter cells to a finished vaccine.
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Amid restaurant closures in Boston, there is an opportunity to reshape the city’s dining scene for years to come - The Boston Globe
May 09, 2021 | BostonGlobe.com
Statewide, 3,400 establishments — 23 percent of the total — closed permanently during the pandemic, according to the Massachusetts Restaurant Association. But alongside all of this loss, the vacancies in Boston now present an opportunity.
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A beloved childhood experience, or a petri dish of germs? Public ball pits will reopen in August - The Boston Globe
May 05, 2021 | BostonGlobe.com
Much of the joy once associated with ball pits has been drained over the past year, and many wonder if it will ever be the same.
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Introducing the e.e. cummings free poetry archive
May 03, 2021 | palewire
Blog. Editor and Publisher Ben Welsh.
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Will our kindergartener remember pandemic ‘garage school’? I’ll never forget it - The Boston Globe
May 02, 2021 | BostonGlobe.com
With students returning to in-person school, a mom wonders what impression remote learning with neighborhood pals left on her kid.
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The rise of self-made billionaires and the fall of economic dynamism
Apr 26, 2021 | www.slowboring.com
Economic progress has slowed down, not sped up
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An investigation into Marvel movies’ noticeable lack of kissing
Apr 22, 2021 | Polygon
Why there’s so little of it, and how it changes between MCU phases
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America reaches milestone with COVID-19 vaccine widely available to those who want it, but hesitancy still casts a shadow
Apr 20, 2021 | www.usatoday.com
USA TODAY's panel of experts celebrate the success of the U.S. COVID-19 vaccine program but worry that although most Americans can get a shot, too many won't.
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