IKEA buys 11,000 acres of U.S. forest to keep it from being developed — and I tried to report scientific misconduct. How did it go?

Issue #296 — January 28, 2021

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IKEA buys 11,000 acres of U.S. forest to keep it from being developed goodnewsnetwork.org \| points: 903 \| comments: 579

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I tried to report scientific misconduct. How did it go? crystalprisonzone.blogspot.com \| points: 816 \| comments: 323

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Heavy social media use associated with lower mental health in adolescents bbc.com \| points: 698 \| comments: 319

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The Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company costplusdrugs.com \| points: 693 \| comments: 432

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My 2 Year Journey to $10K MRR bannerbear.com \| points: 410 \| comments: 65

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Nq – A simple Unix job queue system github.com \| points: 399 \| comments: 123

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GameStop Is Rage Against the Financial Machine bloomberg.com \| points: 380 \| comments: 476

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Agent fired from literary agency for using Parler and Gab newsweek.com \| points: 377 \| comments: 517

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U.S. Suffers Sharpest Rise in Poverty Rate in More Than 50 Years bloomberg.com \| points: 326 \| comments: 219

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Telephoto fear: how lenses affect views of crowds mainichi.jp \| points: 274 \| comments: 112

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A minimalistic site to vent and see others doing the same in realtime ventscape.life \| points: 271 \| comments: 123

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Split keyboards and how to build them github.com \| points: 233 \| comments: 245

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Berty: Peer-to-peer messaging app that works with or without internet access github.com \| points: 209 \| comments: 60

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Why does it take so long to build software? (2020) simplethread.com \| points: 206 \| comments: 166

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Vue Native (2018) vue-native.io \| points: 203 \| comments: 175

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Silicon Valley is shutting down speech loopholes. Latest target: live content taibbi.substack.com \| points: 198 \| comments: 303

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Automating my job with GPT-3 blog.seekwell.io \| points: 194 \| comments: 65

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A Map of Mathematics mathmap.quantamagazine.org \| points: 191 \| comments: 40

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OpenWifiPass – Open-Source Implementation of Apple’s Wi-Fi Password Sharing github.com \| points: 183 \| comments: 66

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What does the night sky look like on Mars? skyatnightmagazine.com \| points: 172 \| comments: 81

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