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Tuesday, 12 February 2019

You Don't Have To Say Anything

Tuesday's top stories are here.
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'A Woman, Just Not That Woman': How Sexism Plays Out on the Trail, Why Is 'Apex Legends' So Good? It Makes Playing With Strangers Fun, and more.
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A FEW CHOICE WORDS
'A WOMAN, JUST NOT THAT WOMAN'
How Sexism Plays Out On The Campaign Trail
nytimes.com
In the words of her detractors during the 2016 presidential race, Hillary Clinton was abrasive and shrill. She was aloof. She was unlikable. It's not a coincidence that these adjectives are now bubbling up in discussions of Senators Elizabeth Warren, Kirsten Gillibrand and Kamala Harris.
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Why Is 'Apex Legends' So Good? It Makes Playing With Strangers Fun
digg.com
A week after Respawn Entertainment surprise-released the squad-based, class-based battle royale shooter, players and critics have been gushing about just how many things the game gets right. Chief among which: The communication system.
HOW HARD IS IT TO SAY NOTHING
The Sad, Awkward History Of Actors Torpedoing Their Own Movies By Opening Their Mouth
melmagazine.com
It's a rare, uncomfortable feeling when an upcoming movie or TV show gets kneecapped like this — its very existence so linked to a bigger, more public controversy that its potentially entertaining properties are drained away before anybody gets to see it.
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THE IMPOSSIBLE
A QUESTION OF POLITICAL WILL
Strep A Bacteria Kill Half A Million People A Year. Why Don't We Have A Vaccine?
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Strep A is among the deadliest pathogens in the world — yet we've never prioritized making a vaccine. Emily Sohn uncovers the cost of ignoring this problem, and meets those taking the fight to this silent killer.
HERE KITTY KITTY KITTY
My Quest To Photograph The Most Elusive Cat In Africa
petapixel.com
A couple of years ago, photos started emerging of a black leopard in India. It was a cat that had made its territory in the tourist area of Kabini Forest in Karnataka. The leopard was hard to see but some persistent photographers managed to capture images of it that got my pulse racing.
BAIT AND SWITCH
The Caviar Con
longreads.com
When caviar-crazed Eastern Europeans flocked to Warsaw, Missouri to poach eggs from a vulnerable species of fish, federal agents went undercover and spent two years to build a case against them.
OUT OF THIN AIR
The Tiny Swiss Company That Thinks It Can Help Stop Climate Change
nytimes.com
Two European entrepreneurs think they can remove carbon from the air at prices cheap enough to matter.
VIDEO OF THE DAY
SAFE WHACKER
Dropping A Giant Metal Dart Onto A Bank Safe From 150 Feet
digg.com
YouTubers How Ridiculous might have the most fun out there, given their whole shtick is to try to destroy something by dropping sharp, heavy objects on it from a tower.
IN THE NEWS
Tentative Deal Reached To Keep Government Open Without Full Wall Funding
Here's What's Going On With The Hubbub Over Representative Ilhan Omar's AIPAC Comments
The Denver Teacher Strike Marches Into Day Two
Second Fairfax Accuser Says She Was Also Raped By Former Duke Basketball Player Corey Maggette
Former White House Aide Cliff Sims Sues Trump After Attack Over Tell-All Book
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