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2018-11-03 · practicalecommerce.com

Success with Google Shopping, Part 3: Merchant Center Setup

Google Shopping ads can deliver many prospects to an ecommerce site. The ads can appear for precise keyword searches — such as a product make and model — making them effective in matching products to buyers. This is the third article in my "Success with Google Shopping" serious.

2018-11-03 · wnycstudios.org

War of the Worlds

For the 80th anniversary of Orson Welles' 1938 radio play "The War of the Worlds," we take a deep dive into one of the most controversial moments in broadcasting history.

2018-11-03 · nytimes.com

Is Agnes Gund the Last Good Rich Person?

Ms. Gund is a wealthy white woman who spent a lifetime fighting for racial justice. At 80, she’s the homecoming queen of the philanthropy world. She’s also running out of cash.

2018-11-02 · knowablemagazine.org

Sticky science: Evolution of spiderwebs

The eight-legged weavers have been hunting insects for almost 400 million years, flaunting their long history in a rich array of architectures. Scientists are still figuring out the taxonomy of them all.

2018-10-31 · longform.org

The Shipbreakers

On a desolate, six-mile stretch of Indian beachfront, the bulk of the world’s big ships are dismantled for scrap. Though a ship is usually worth over $1 million in steel, the margins are low, the leftovers are toxic, and the labor—which employs huge

2018-10-28 · ayasdi.com

Financial Services

Learn how SymphonyAI’s financial crime prevention solutions quickly deploy to uncover your risks, improve investigations, and transform your operations.

2018-10-28 · kdnuggets.com

Apache Spark Introduction for Beginners

An extensive introduction to Apache Spark, including a look at the evolution of the product, use cases, architecture, ecosystem components, core concepts and more.

2018-10-28 · barrenmagazine.com

The Halfway House

This man, Tom Goodnough, looked guilty as he slunk along, but that was how he always looked even when he'd done nothing wro

2018-10-28 · roadsandkingdoms.com

From Lithuania, with love

In February 2015, a cryptic email reached former NPR correspondent Ann Cooper from around the globe and across 28 years. It would pull her back into one of the most extraordinary reporting jobs in her career.

2018-10-27 · seths.blog

Stet

There’s a term in copyediting called “stet.” That’s what you write when you want the copyeditor to not make the indicated change. It’s probably Latin for, “leave…

2018-10-24 · seths.blog

Lumpers and splitters

There are two interesting ways to solve a problem, find a startup or even write a blog post. You can lump two previously disparate categories into one. Or you can split a previously coherent catego…

2018-10-21 · munchies.vice.com

How Being a Line Cook Ruined Me

When you exist outside of regular society, when the nine-to-five gig is as foreign to you as going somewhere hot for a vacation, it makes it easier to indulge in the wilder, untamed side of things.