America: If you haven't read Time's piece on medical bills yet, you should. http://t.co/K1XqG9yXvH

A beautiful piece: "Built for Eternity" http://t.co/ySKci2GkYb

Oh wow. A great but !!!!! article about the extreme movement to “protect college students from psychological harm.” http://t.co/XIgIF2Cuct

Can't shake this story on Chinese lingerie vendors in Egypt. Most insightful longread of '15? http://t.co/AFPPkUHaNi http://t.co/HOxH4PXMVX

The biggest retail hack in U.S. history wasn’t particularly inventive, nor did it appear destined for success. In the days prior to Thanksgiving 2013, someone installed malware in Target’s security and payments system designed to steal every credit card used at the company’s 1,797 U.S. stores. At…

“So much of our manufactured environment testifies to carelessness,” Ive says. Things are “developed to be different, not better.” Credit Photograph by Pari Dukovic I. Launch Day In recent months, Sir Jonathan Ive, the forty-seven-year-old senior vice-president of design at Apple—who used to play…

Rebekka Dunlap BETHESDA, Md. — ON her first morning in America, last summer, my daughter went out to explore her new neighborhood — alone, without even telling my wife or me. Of course we were worried; we had just moved from Berlin, and she was just 8. But when she came home, we realized we had no…

This @bengoldacre joint is pretty much the best/clearest science writing I’ve ever seen. cc @sethmnookin @rhiansalmon http://t.co/wISh4gldwu

The new interim principal, Jie Zhang, is a Chinese-born veteran teacher and administrator who most recently oversaw a network of schools that includes Stuyvesant. She’ll have to deal with the scandal’s aftermath, at least for now, starting with how to prevent future cheating. In a recent letter to…

Earlier this month, Brian Dennehy started a new job as chief marketing officer of Nordstrom Inc. In his first week, he pulled aside a colleague to ask a question: How hard it is for a nonemployee to enter the building? Mr. Dennehy doesn't have a particular interest in corporate security. He just…

felixsalmon: A simple "swim slower when it's darker, and stick with your mates" rule can create surprisingly smart crowds: http://t.co/YlaGKTTa

There was, as educators say, a diverse range of learners in the room. Some were well on the way to mastering the tablet. Ben Porter, for instance, a third-year teacher who previously worked as an operations manager for a Cold Stone Creamery franchiser, was already adept at loading and sharing lesson…

paulg: The Play Deficit: http://t.co/4AcR7014kB

Recently, I created an app called Petting Zoo . It is an interactive app for iPhones and iPads , and creating it was a difficult but interesting process. The initial inspiration came from playing with an iPhone years ago. Touching an element on the screen felt so much more immediate than going…

Shell game There would be a number of activities that would be attempted for the first time during this conceptual inspection and rescue mission. —Columbia Accident Investigation Board Report (Appendix D.13) From here, the complexity of the mission begins to ratchet up to maximum. Depending on how…

paulg: Scientists must publish fewer, truer results. The Economist covers the biggest threat to science today: http://t.co/Un11HWOeiZ

A trio of boys tramps along the length of a wooden fence, back and forth, shouting like carnival barkers. “The Land! It opens in half an hour.” Down a path and across a grassy square, 5-year-old Dylan can hear them through the window of his nana’s front room. He tries to figure out what half an hour…

sethmnookin: DNA evidence useless b/c same DNA. “@DrJenGunter: When one identical twin is accused of killing the other http://t.co/82p5P0yx”

timoreilly: Astonishing rice yield, without GMO rice, pesticides http://t.co/CoRIDmq9

nickbilton: Crazy (must read) story! The Physicist Professor, the Bikini Model & the Suitcase Full of Trouble: http://t.co/0p65tIOaYe

felixsalmon: David Remnick: A Scandal at the Bolshoi Ballet http://t.co/1t4Q4Rnndp <- 11,000 words #verylongreads

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brendankoerner: Love this @matthew_power story about urban explorers: http://t.co/lNBNNI56nQ