SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Drug Hunters: Meet the scientists building a library of future designer drugs / The Verge
Key change: After a decade in a minor key, the rapper Dessa scanned her brain to fall out of love / The Verge
Philip Tetlock's Tomorrows / Chronicle of Higher Education
Is Artificial Intelligence a Threat? / Chronicle of Higher Education
I paid $300 for DNA-based fitness advice and all I got was junk science / The Verge
Cambridge Analytica's Facebook data abuse shouldn't get credit for Trump / The Verge
Mental health startup Basis wants to replace therapy, but mostly provides a friend for a fee / The Verge
Why it's time to rethink the laws that keep our health data private / The Verge
Why the future of life insurance may depend on your online presence / The Verge
Why companies want to mine the secrets in your voice / The Verge
How we know the oldest person who ever lived wasn't faking her age / The Verge
Japanese startup plans to test an experimental battery on the Moon / The Verge
Government pans on pot research have created room for marijuana health hype / The Verge
How far has technology come since the last 'smart border' failed? / The Verge
The armchair psychologist who ticked off YouTube / The Verge
Why Some Mosquitoes Prefer Humans / The New York Times
Meet the Chinese crowdsourcers fighting coronavirus censorship / MIT Technology Review
This startup claims its deepfakes will protect your privacy / MIT Technology Review
Employees say Google is trying to spy on them. That'll be hard to prove. / MIT Technology Review
Google contract voters voted to unionize. The law isn't on their side. / MIT Technology Review
This is how you kick facial recognition out of your town / MIT Technology Review
Three threats posed by deepfakes that technology won't solve / MIT Technology Review
How coronavirus turned the 'dystopian joke' of FaceID masks into a reality / MIT Technology Review
Desperate Venezuelans are making money by training AI for self-driving cars / MIT Technology Review
China's coronavirus app could have unintended consequences / MIT Technology Review
Emotion AI researchers say overblown claims give their work a bad name / MIT Technology Review
Is virtual reality here to stay, even after the pandemic subsides? / National Geographic
How Transgender Women are Training Their Voices to Sound More Feminine / Smithsonian
Who Needs to Learn How to Code / Wall Street Journal
3-D Printers Aren't Just for Engineers Anymore / Chronicle of Higher Education
Speed Reading Returns / Wall Street Journal
More Rational Resolutions / Wall Street Journal
You Are What You e-Read / Wall Street Journal
Crisis Centers Turn to Texting to Help Teens / Wall Street Journal
Different Way to Treat Depression: Games / Wall Street Journal
Mental-Health Crunch on Campus / Wall Street Journal
A Birth-Control Comeback / Wall Street Journal
CULTURE & IDEAS
The Longest Relationship Of Our Lives / The Atlantic
The Rise of the 3-Parent Family / The Atlantic
The Limits of Sex Positivity / The Atlantic
Wanted: True Love. Reward: $100,000 / New York Times
This Language Is Only Used When Collecting Nuts in New Guinea/ Atlas Obscura
A Very Public Intellectual / Chronicle of Higher Education
Review: The Secrets of Earth’s ‘Silvery Sister’ / Undark
How CBT techniques can make OCD worse / The Guardian
Pulitzer winner Viet Thanh Nguyen: 'My book has something to offend everyone' / The Guardian
Poet Robin Coste Lewis: "I am an artist through to my marrow" / The Guardian
Language is all convention: Talking with Elif Batuman / The Rumpus
An Interview With Sarah Smarsh, Author of HEARTLAND / Longreads
ESSAYS & CRITICISM
Meet Yourself / Lapham's Quarterly
Parting Shot / The Paris Review
What is Given, What is Earned / Hazlitt
Silicon Valley High / The Morning News
When You're From Wuhan, the U.S. Coronavirus Outbreak is Deja Vu / Slate
Tournament of Books 2018: THE IDIOT vs STEPHEN FLORIDA vs SAVAGE THEORIES / The Morning News
Why I No Longer Make Predictions (and the rest of my DATA column at Catapult)