Aqua Tofana: The 17th Century Husband Killer(amusingplanet.com)

52 points by gappy 1 year ago | 17 comments

The first airplane fatality(amusingplanet.com)

79 points by Hooke 7 months ago | 20 comments

Nedelin Catastrophe: The Worst Space-Related Disaster(amusingplanet.com)

34 points by Hooke 3 years ago | 3 comments

The Sundial Cannon of Åtvidaberg (2017)(amusingplanet.com)

60 points by choult 2 years ago | 27 comments

How the Atomic Tests Looked Like from Los Angeles(amusingplanet.com)

124 points by ohjeez 11 months ago | 84 comments

Blackhouses of Scotland(amusingplanet.com)

93 points by yamrzou 2 years ago | 35 comments

Plastics are poisoning us(newyorker.com)

361 points by fortran77 3 years ago | 416 comments

New Yorker article by Elizabeth Kolbert on how plastics release and attract toxic chemicals and spread everywhere, from human placentas to deep ocean trenches.

Loyal workers are selectively and ironically targeted for exploitation(sciencedirect.com)

341 points by ck45 3 years ago | 219 comments

Abstract page for a Journal of Experimental Social Psychology paper finding that loyal workers are selectively targeted for exploitation by managers.

Why the Rich Are Getting Richer and the Poor Are Further Removed from Prosperity(lusopt2016.blogspot.com)

6 points by inandout 22 hours ago | 0 comments

A Portuguese-language blog post discussing why global economic inequality between rich and poor keeps widening, citing technology, cost of living, and billionaire wealth.

Lobbying Is Corruption(carette.xyz)

336 points by LucidLynx 16 days ago | 157 comments

A personal blog post arguing that lobbying in the US amounts to corruption, responding to a George Hotz piece explaining lobbying to non-Americans.

Reverse engineering a $1B Legal AI tool exposed 100k+ confidential files(alexschapiro.com)

752 points by bearsyankees 10 months ago | 258 comments

A blog post describing how the author found an unauthenticated API flaw in Filevine's legal AI tool exposing 100k+ confidential files, with a disclosure timeline.

I almost got hacked by a 'job interview'(blog.daviddodda.com)

829 points by DavidDodda 1 year ago | 427 comments

A blog post by David Dodda recounting how a fake job interview attempted to get him to run malicious code on his machine.