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Memoir / September/October 2020

How Algorithms Are Changing What We Read Online

September 8, 2020September 15, 2020 - by Russell Smith

The AI of the internet determines what’s relevant. One day, it decided my work wasn’t

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September/October 2020 / Technology

The Making of an Incel

September 2, 2020September 2, 2020 - by Katherine Laidlaw

How misogyny in online forums turns into real-life violence

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September/October 2020 / Society

Black Communities Have Known about Mutual Aid All Along

September 1, 2020September 15, 2020 - by Vicky Mochama

In the pandemic, “caremongering” has become a new term for an old—and joyous—practice

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First Person / September/October 2020

My Other Mother

August 20, 2020August 26, 2020 - by William Pang

My nanny helped raise me. Now it’s time for me to get to know her children

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Justice / September/October 2020

Did Prisons Ever Work?

August 18, 2020August 19, 2020 - by Lauren McKeon

A growing movement believes it’s time to stop putting women in jail

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In Other Worlds: A Space Exploration

The Fault, Dear Reader, Is Not in Our Stars

August 12, 2020September 28, 2020 - by Carly Lewis

Mental health care is pricey and inaccessible. Online astrology is rising to take its place

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In Other Worlds: A Space Exploration

Discovering the Universe through the World’s Largest Telescope

August 10, 2020September 28, 2020 - by Viviane Fairbank

The ALMA array is our most powerful tool for witnessing the birth of new planets

Beadwork of concentric rings of the solar system, with the sun in the center and planets surrounding it.

In Other Worlds: A Space Exploration

Teaching Indigenous Star Stories

August 10, 2020November 6, 2020 - by Kelly Boutsalis

Educators like Wilfred Buck know that astronomy did not, in fact, start with Aristotle and end with Neil deGrasse Tyson

Screenshot of the actress who plays Anne Shirley on the TV show Anne with an E. She has red hair and freckles and is looking towards the top of the frame while wrapped in a grey blanket.

Arts & Culture / Television

When Anne with an E Fans Waged War against Netflix

August 5, 2020October 13, 2020 - by John Semley

In their campaign to save the show, fans stopped behaving like an audience and started acting like owners

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Environment

The Butterfly Effect

July 29, 2020October 13, 2020 - by Sherina Harris

Climate change can feel impossible to solve. But, as monarchs show, small actions can have world-altering results