The Record Label of The Future is No Label At All

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Syria's wall of impunity begins to crack

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The Surprising Value of Obvious Insights

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“She Never Looks Back”: Inside Elizabeth Holmes’s Final Months at Theranos

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For 10 years, a rogue fishing vessel and its crew plundered the world’s oceans, escaping repeated attempts of capture. Then a dramatic pursuit finally netted the one that got away.

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When caviar-crazed Eastern Europeans flocked to Warsaw, Missouri to poach eggs from a vulnerable species of fish, federal agents went undercover and spent two years to build a case against them.

Four Key Product Principles from WeChat’s Creator | Andreessen Horowitz

Throughout China, Allen Zhang is known as the “father of WeChat”. Zhang’s public persona has much the same cultural importance and weight as the American legacy of Steve Jobs. He is renowned in China’s tech scene as an artist and philosopher, as well as for his fierce mission…

How to Cultivate Mental Stamina - Scott H Young

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The Battle for the Soul of America in Garden City, Kansas

The Somali refugees living in a small small meatpacking town in Kansas loved America. But so did the locals who tried to kill them.

This Yacht Influencer Has the Perfect Life. Don't You Feel Sorry for Him?

Seated at a table on the rear deck with Lindsay Lohan and her entourage, I spotted Alex Jimenez — a professional yacht influencer.

Bangkok to Chiang Mai by train – best train times to see some of the highlights of Thailand

The train from Bangkok to Chiang Mai is a great way to see more of Thailand, but depending on your travels it’s not always the best way. With some planning by picking the right trains, you can save…

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Quick-reference guide to the 17 statistical hypothesis tests that you need in applied machine learning, with sample code in Python. Although there are hundreds of statistical hypothesis tests that you could use, there is only a small subset that you may need to use in a machine…

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OTL: The inside story of how Bob Costas got yanked from the Super Bowl

Conversations with Bob Costas reveal for the first time how the broadcasting icon went from fronting America's most popular sport to being excised from last year's Super Bowl and, ultimately, ending his nearly 40-year career with NBC.

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Abuse of Faith

Since 1998, roughly 380 Southern Baptist church leaders and volunteers have faced allegations of sexual misconduct. They left behind more than 700 victims.

Lost in the Valley of Death

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The Beautiful Mind-Bending of Stanislaw Lem

The massive popularity of “Solaris” helped Lem become one of the most widely read science-fiction writers in the world. Yet his writing reached far beyond the borders of the genre.

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A MEMS Device Harvests Vibrations to Power the IoT

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NPR’s How I Built This: What I Learned from 51 Episodes | Allen Cheng

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The 3 Elements of Trust

As a leader, you want the people in your organization to trust you. And with good reason. In our coaching with leaders, we often see that trust is a leading indicator of whether others evaluate them positively or negatively. But how to create that trust, or perhaps more…

The Nazi Interrogator Who Revealed the Value of Kindness

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In this article, you will learn how performing parallel computations can speed up the multiplication of two matrices.

The 'Ten Commandments' of running a genuine Irish pub

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When Your Child Is a Psychopath

The condition has long been considered untreatable. Experts can spot it in a child as young as 3 or 4. But a new clinical approach offers hope.

An Interview With the Realtor Selling the Suburban House With the Sex Room

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A Short History of Punk: From Late 50s Rockabilly and Garage Rock to The Ra

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Death and Valor on an American Warship Doomed by its Own Navy

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Manufacturers are developing two packaging designs for the same product: those destined for the retail shelf and those sent directly to consumers.

How a Freak Accident Happens

Over two years after 10-year-old Caleb Schwab lost his life on the tallest waterslide in the world, the amusement park industry has yet to fully reckon with the tragedy.

The world beyond React, Vue & Angular

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