Health You Don’t Want Facebook Involved With Your Health Careslate.com - Kirsten Ostherr This new approach to health care data makes us vulnerable to increased surveillance, digital profiling, and manipulation in the most intimate of …
Google Is There Any Real Alternative to Google?slate.com - Aaron Mak Google’s tools span the globe, for better or for worse.
Telescopes The 2020 Presidential Race Is Suffering From a Lack of Imaginationslate.com - Bina Venkataraman Many voters’ and pundits’ expectations for 2020 appear to be shaped more by recent experience than the imagination of what’s possible.
Edward Snowden Noted Rule-Follower Edward Snowden Didn’t Get the NSA’s Permission to Publish His Bookslate.com - Aaron Mak The book reportedly does not contain any major new revelations.
WeWork All the Reasons Things Are Going Very Poorly for WeWork This Weekslate.com The company, which postponed its IPO, might be a thinking-face emoji in startup form.
There’s One Good Reason to Share Period App Data: Medical Researchslate.com - Shannon Palus Apps should still tell users where their data is going.
Kickstarter Unionizing Workers Just Accused Kickstarter of Retaliatory Firings in a Federal Complaintslate.com - April Glaser The union effort at the crowdfunding company went public in March.
Facebook Churches Are Using Targeted Ads to Convert and Recruitslate.com - Josh Wilbur “Go and make disciples of all 18- to 34-year-olds within a 10-mile radius who prefer Chick-fil-A to Popeyes.”
Kickstarter Inside Kickstarter’s Year of Turmoilslate.com - April Glaser How a Nazi-punching satire led to the first union drive at a well-known tech company—and, workers say, the firing of two organizers in eight days.
Mental Disorders Trump’s Plan to Stop Violence Via Smartphone Tracking Isn’t Just a Massive Privacy Violationslate.com - Jane C. Hu It’s also highly unlikely to work.
Vaping Trump’s Proposed Ban on Flavors Won’t Reduce Vaping Illnessesslate.com - Jeremy Samuel Faust It could even cause some harm.
Text Messaging What Happened After a Bunch of Democratic Presidential Campaigns Started Texting Meslate.com - Aaron Mak Using new technology, they’re sending millions of messages to voters. Is that effective, annoying, or both?
Kickstarter Kickstarter Has Fired Two Union Organizers in Eight Daysslate.com - April Glaser It's the first union effort at a well-known tech company.
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoVaping The Case for the Vapeslate.com - Aaron Mak and Shannon Palus As public health officials call for people to quit, it’s important to understand why people vape in the first place.
Analog As the World Falls Back in Love With Analog Sound, Hearing Aids Are Going Digitalslate.com - David Polansky For an avid record collector with profound hearing loss, the switch to digital hearing aids is heartbreaking.
Area 51 The Guy Behind the “Storm Area 51” Meme Is Canceling His Festival Before It Becomes a “Humanitarian Disaster”slate.com - Aaron Mak But there are two Area 51 festivals still happening in the Nevada desert.
Women's News A Woman Frustrated by Unsolicited Dick Pics Decided to Make Her Own Filterslate.com - Jane C. Hu Why couldn’t the big social media companies do this?
Apple Arcade Apple Wants You to Pay It Every Monthslate.com - Aaron Mak Even if you stop buying an iPhone every two years.
eCigarettes Don’t Ban E-Cigarettesslate.com - Jacob Grier There are smarter ways to handle this medical mystery.
Light Bulbs Everything Is Endangeredslate.com - Susan Matthews Lightbulbs, car emission standards, the Endangered Species Act, the Tongass National Forest.
Apple Arcade The Most Exciting Rumors About Apple’s Newest Devicesslate.com - Aaron Mak Graded by how much Timpatience we feel.
Language The Complicated Decisions That Come With Digitizing Indigenous Languagesslate.com - Lorraine Boissoneault Putting the languages on the internet means that communities have to make complicated decisions about what to share and when.
Greta Thunberg How Greta Thunberg Captured Our Attention on Climateslate.com - Rebecca Onion We’re finally ready to absorb her bleak message, and maybe act on it.
MIT Media Lab The Moral Rot of the MIT Media Labslate.com - Justin Peters Like its parent university, the famed laboratory became far too comfortable selling its prestige. Even to Jeffrey Epstein.
Pandemic Why You Don’t Need to Isolate Yourself to Survive the Next Pandemicslate.com - Charles Duhigg And other do’s and don’ts from a public health expert.
Vaping What’s Going on With These Mysterious Vaping-Related Illnesses?slate.com - Shannon Palus The CDC’s advice to e-cigarette users hits the right note of caution.
Meteorology America Has a Meteorologist in the White House. Where Is He?slate.com - Daniel Engber We deserve Kelvin.
Bioethics Come Watch Soylent Green With Francis Fukuyamaslate.com Join us in Washington on Sept. 18 a screening and discussion of the film, its depiction of overpopulation, and how Hollywood portrays climate change.
Chloë Grace Moretz The Hacks of Chloë Grace Moretz’s and Jack Dorsey’s Twitter Accounts Look Pretty Similarslate.com - Aaron Mak Twitter is turning off tweeting via SMS texting in response.
