RCI -
Other Investigations
Tuesday, October 16
'Hyperalarming' Study Shows Massive Insect Loss
Ben Guarino
,
Washington Post
The Employer-Surveillance State
Ellen Ruppel Shell,
Atlantic
Harvard Seeks Retraction of 31 Studies by Top Cardiologist
Gina Kolata
,
NY Times
Sunday, October 14
How the Rise of Androgyny Changed Our Passports
Samantha Allen
,
Daily Beast
Spoken Latin Is Making a Comeback
Lisa DeBode
,
The Nation
The $1 Billion+ Bratz Battle: Bribery, Monopoly-Building & Barbie
The Fashion Law
Why We'd Better Get Used to Toxic Mold
Peter Andrey Smith
,
Topic
How Will Police Solve Murders on Mars?
Geoff Manaugh
,
Atlantic
Saturday, October 13
A Diet Guru Explains Why You Should Eat Dinner at 2 PM
Dr. Jason Fung,
Quartz
Friday, October 12
Facebook Takes Down Hundreds of Suspect U.S. Pages
Nick Kostov
,
Wall St Journal
U.S. Probes Shady Latin Recruiting for Dodgers, Braves
Carl Prine
, J
on Wertheim
, SI
The Secret Intellectual History of Mathematics
Mordechai Levy-Eichel,
Aeon
Racial Preferences on Trial as Harvard Goes to Court
Stuart Taylor Jr.
,
Weekly Standard
Facebook: Hackers Saw Personal Info of 14 Million
David Ingram
,
NBC News
Facebook Says Russian Firms 'Scraped' Face Data
Jack Nicas,
New York Times
Thursday, October 11
Mystery of Walmart Purse With Note From 'Chinese Prisoner'
Rossalyn Warren
,
Vox
Amazon Scraps AI Recruiting Tool Biased Against Women
Jeffrey Dastin,
Reuters
Book Excerpt: It Takes a Family to Raise a Criminal
Fox Butterfield,
CrimeReads
The Campus Diversity Complex
Mark Pulliam
,
City Journal
Leaked Google Doc Puts ‘Safety & Civility' Over Free Speech
Allum Bokhari
,
Breitbart
Leaked Transcript Contradicts Google's Story on China
Ryan Gallagher
,
Intercept
Americans Strongly Dislike PC Culture
Yascha Mounk,
Atlantic
The Banana is Dying; Gene Editing Could Save It, or Not
Matt Reynolds
,
Wired
Why Public Transportation Works Better Outside the U.S.
Jonathan English
,
CityLab
Wednesday, October 10
Who Killed American Cheese? Millennials
Lydia Mulvaney & Leslie Patton
,
Bloomberg
How a Caffeinated Workplace Perk Brewed a Daily Coffee Clash
Julie Jargon
,
WSJ
A Consensual Hookup Cost One Student $12K in Legal Fees
Robby Soave
,
Reason
Houston Astros' Hacker Tells Why He Did It
Ben Reiter
,
Sports Illustrated
Why Pickup Artists Are Reading Ovid
Ashley Fetters
,
Atlantic
Tuesday, October 9
How U.S.-China Trade War Sparks Wide Tariff Fraud
Chuin-Wei Yap
,
Wall Street Journal
Companies Aren't Going Public Anymore
Frank Partnoy,
Atlantic
Border Zone Lets U.S. Authorities Step Over the Line
Melissa del Bosque
,
TX Observer
Why Some Amazon Workers Are Fuming About Their Raise
Karen Weise
,
NY Times
Monday, October 8
Google Hid Data Breach for Months
Douglas MacMillan
&
Robert McMillan
, WSJ
Major Climate Report Predicts Crisis as Early as 2040
Coral Davenport
, NYT
The Rise and Fall of Affirmative Action
Hua Hsu,
New Yorker
Tech Workers Are Now Questioning Company Projects
Kate Conger
&
Cade Metz
, NYT
Sunday, October 7
General Wanted Nuke Response in Vietnam War, Cables Show
David E. Sanger
,
NYT
Voting With Feet: How Improvised Trails Defy Planners
Ellie Violet Bramley,
Guardian
Among Lesser Known Nobel Prize Perks: Free Parking
Melissa Korn
,
Wall St Journal
How Cities Turned Against Columbus Day
Karim Doumar,
CityLab
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