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Science Trump CDC's plan for kids: vaccines and fluoride bad, lead good Jason Weisberger

politics Tech billionaires censor Seth Rogen for telling too much truth at science award show Ellsworth Toohey

drugs Police seize seven tons of cocaine buried underneath a farm Allan Rose Hill

animals Kayaking smuggler caught attempting to row 29 protected turtles into Canada Allan Rose Hill

Comics Frank Miller is releasing a sequel to RONIN Thom Dunn

machine learning Gmail's "Smart Compose" feature is terrible at helping freelancers negotiate Thom Dunn

art The Weird of Wendy Pini Rob Beschizza

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scholarship Adversarial patches: colorful circles that convince machine-learning vision system to ignore everything else Cory Doctorow

animals There are only three of these turtles left David Pescovitz

travel Touring northern Colombia by car in the rainy season Maggie Tokuda-Hall

Jeb Bush Jeb Bush's saddest moments Mark Frauenfelder

facebook Escaping the new media cargo cult David Moldawer

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