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AddS3 E4 Back to Thailand - Cave Diver Craig Challen on The Rescue, Risk and Adventure
An armed man at a gathering of the website’s volunteers is just the latest reminder: Editing the internet’s encyclopedia has never been riskier.
Michael and Mary Shelley were glamorous Sydney socialites, who became Christian fanatics and kidnappers. Three of their children - Steven, John and Hannah - were secretly placed into foster care with my parents, Lenore and Tom Blaine. The Shelleys were apocalyptically irritated to discover that the children of God had been fostered by working-class Queensland…
DNA tests and organizations such as 23andMe, DNAConnect, GEDmatch, and Nanchang Project are reuniting parents and children separated by China's one-child policy, Barbara Demick reports.
Anna Funder
When it comes to improving the fairness of the tax system, this is no time to be squeamish.
I’ve never been accused of any crimes, let alone prosecuted. My experience sums-up the draconian plight of non-citizens in the US, says journalist Amandla Thomas-Johnson
The complicated story of James Watson, whose landmark DNA discovery with Francis Crick was later overshadowed by his deeply offensive remarks
The manosphere is confusing, because it’s a place where one can find both benign advice about protein consumption and...
Laudable! Let's take a look at some of the changes that arise from this, through a simple case study: making an international phone call to a relative.
Before abolishing time zones I want to call my Uncle Steve in Melbourne. What time is it there? Google tells me it is currently...
Those who predict that superintelligence will destroy humanity serve the same interests as those who believe that it will solve all of our problems.
In an essay from Amanda Hess's memoir 'Second Life,' she explores her parasocial relationship with the freebirther subculture amid her medicalized pregnancy.
On the importance of a strong inside strategy.
Moving the capital is an old idea and a perennial nonstarter.
The point.com.au
It was one of those nights we wait all year for, the first night where you can go outside without a coat or a sweater. I walked up Lincoln Avenue after an uncommonly good production of Hamlet, and thinking many thoughts about the play. They’d gotten Hamlet right, which is rare enough that I should…