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The Periodic Table of Motion.

The Final Frontiers.

400,000 GitHub repositories, 1 billion files, 14 terabytes of code: Spaces or Tabs?

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How Elizabeth Holmes’s House of Cards Came Tumbling Down.

In a searing investigation into the once lauded biotech start-up Theranos, Nick Bilton discovers that its precocious founder defied medical experts—even her own chief scientist—about the veracity of its now discredited blood-testing technology.

Campuses Cautiously Train Freshmen Against Subtle Insults.

“When I, as a white female, listen to music that uses the N word, and I’m in the car, or, especially when I’m with all white friends, is it O.K. to sing along?”

Relevant: Enacted correctly, trigger warnings and related measures are not supposed to constrict academic horizons.

I’m Not Ready to Go to Mars.

Here’s everything we published this month on humanity and space.

How to Save Yourself From Being Buried Alive.

Perhaps someday Nest or another tech company will build a “smart casket” or link the dead into the Internet of Things. Or perhaps there will just be an app for that — assuming your smartphone battery doesn’t die well before you don’t.

How Nations Around the World Teach Their Most Difficult History.

The Revenge of Roger’s Angels – How Fox News Women Took Down Roger Ailes.

The most powerful, and predatory, man in media warned his staff about the “enemy within.” Turns out it was him.

Source: pixel.nymag.com

Relevant: Act II of the Ailes saga may have just begun.

“It's worth noting that this payout is coming from Fox, not from Ailes himself. And given the fact that he just hired the lawyer Hulk Hogan used in his battle against Gawker, you'll want to stay tuned.” – Dave Pell.

Bizarre ant colony discovered in an abandoned Polish nuclear weapons bunker.

Life in an abandoned nuclear weapons bunker is nightmarish, even for the humble ant.

Are Seinfeld royalties enough to take on Clinton and Bush?

This Man Is the Most Dangerous Political Operative in America.

Steve Bannon runs the new vast right-wing conspiracy—and he wants to take down both Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush.