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| The best articles from npr.org, according to Hacker News. |
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| 2016 | | 50 Years Ago, Sugar Industry Quietly Paid Scientists to Point Blame at Fat (npr.org) |
| 1606 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 83 comments |
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| 2013 | | Brains Sweep Themselves Clean of Toxins During Sleep (npr.org) |
| 865 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 167 comments |
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| 2010 | | How Fake Money Saved Brazil (npr.org) |
| 534 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 93 comments |
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| 2012 | | In 1957, Five Men Agreed to Stand Under an Exploding Nuclear Bomb (npr.org) |
| 498 points | 6 years ago with 203 comments |
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| 2011 | | Dissolve My Nobel Prize, Fast (npr.org) |
| 462 points | 8 years ago with 81 comments |
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| 2018 | | How to get kids to do chores: Does the Maya method work? (npr.org) |
| 439 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 140 comments |
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| 2012 | | Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides for 80 Years (npr.org) |
| 408 points | 9 years ago with 95 comments |
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| 2015 | | Trapped in his body for 12 years, a man breaks free (npr.org) |
| 404 points | 3 years ago with 133 comments |
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| 2015 | | In Search Of The Red Cross' $500M In Haiti Relief (npr.org) |
| 325 points | 6 years ago with 172 comments |
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| 2018 | | Who ordered the car bomb that killed Maltese journalist Daphne Galizia? (npr.org) |
| 268 points | 4 years ago with 49 comments |
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| 2011 | | Dissolve My Nobel Prize, Fast (npr.org) |
| 229 points | 7 years ago with 56 comments |
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| 2014 | | A Tiny, $25 Million Mistake (npr.org) |
| 222 points | 5 years ago with 136 comments |
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| 2012 | | How the government set up a fake bank to launder drug money (npr.org) |
| 210 points | 2 years ago with 97 comments |
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| 2015 | | Winner of French Scrabble Title Does Not Speak French (npr.org) |
| 184 points | 3 years ago with 127 comments |
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| 2014 | | Why the U.S. Chills Its Eggs and Most of the World Doesn't (npr.org) |
| 161 points | 4 years ago with 214 comments |
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| 2017 | | A bad grade that changed the U.S. constitution (npr.org) |
| 160 points | 2 years ago with 190 comments |
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| 2015 | | Snobbery Helped Take the Spice Out of European Cooking (npr.org) |
| 159 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 136 comments |
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| 2019 | | Why the American shoe disappeared and is hard to bring back (npr.org) |
| 148 points | 2 years ago with 244 comments |
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| 2016 | | When people ate people, a strange disease emerged (npr.org) |
| 144 points | 2 years ago with 95 comments |
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| 2012 | | Who Killed Lard? (npr.org) |
| 143 points | 5 years ago with 231 comments |
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| 2011 | | Cosmonaut Crashed into Earth 'Crying in Rage' (npr.org) |
| 139 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 16 comments |
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| 2015 | | Babies On Display: When a Hospital Couldn't Save Them, a Sideshow Did (npr.org) |
| 139 points | 6 years ago with 45 comments |
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| 2013 | | Amputated fingertips sometimes grow back (npr.org) |
| 138 points | 2 years ago with 67 comments |
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| 2012 | | Why Coke Cost a Nickel for 70 Years (npr.org) |
| 135 points | 8 years ago with 95 comments |
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| 2015 | | Norway convinced Japan to love salmon sushi (npr.org) |
| 130 points | 2 years ago with 110 comments |
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| 2019 | | Googling Strangers: One Professor's Lesson on Privacy in Public Spaces (npr.org) |
| 128 points | 3 years ago with 106 comments |
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| 2017 | | Soviet Officer Stanislav Petrov, 'The Man Who Saved the World' (npr.org) |
| 128 points | 4 years ago with 19 comments |
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| 2011 | | A Cosmonaut's Fiery Death Retold (npr.org) |
| 128 points | 10 years ago with 45 comments |
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| 2015 | | The 'Over-Parenting Crisis' in School and at Home (npr.org) |
| 111 points | 5 years ago with 198 comments |
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| 2016 | | Left brain hemisphere more awake the first night sleeping in a new place (npr.org) |
| 111 points | 3 years ago with 62 comments |
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| 2015 | | A doctor who championed hand-washing and briefly saved lives (npr.org) |
| 106 points | 3 years ago with 88 comments |
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| 2011 | | The loneliest plant in the world (npr.org) |
| 102 points | 9 years ago with 19 comments |
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| 2012 | | Embarrassed by your Olympic javelin: did cavemen do it better? (npr.org) |
| 101 points | 2 years ago with 93 comments |
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| 2018 | | A Nearly Extinct Bootlegger's Corn Gets a Second Shot (npr.org) |
| 98 points | 3 years ago with 34 comments |
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| 2019 | | After China Objects, Apple Removes App Used by Hong Kong Protestors (npr.org) |
| 97 points | 2 years ago with 5 comments |
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| 2015 | | How Well Can You Hear Audio Quality? (npr.org) |
| 95 points | 2 years ago with 150 comments |
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| 2005 | | My Lobotomy: Howard Dully's Journey (npr.org) |
| 92 points | 6 months ago with 74 comments |
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| 2014 | | A Spoon That Shakes to Counteract Hand Tremors (npr.org) |
| 92 points | 4 years ago with 14 comments |
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| 2015 | | Why Some Doctors Hesitate to Screen Smokers for Lung Cancer (npr.org) |
| 91 points | 5 years ago with 90 comments |
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| 2015 | | Dining like Darwin: When scientists swallow their subjects (npr.org) |
| 91 points | 8 months ago with 83 comments |
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| 2014 | | NORAD's Santa Tracker Began with a Typo and a Good Sport (npr.org) |
| 89 points | 7 years ago with 16 comments |
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| 2015 | | Can Esperanto Make a Comeback? (npr.org) |
| 88 points | 3 years ago with 222 comments |
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| 2018 | | Alabama Sheriff Legally Took $750k Meant to Feed Inmates, Bought Beach House (npr.org) |
| 86 points | 2 years ago with 36 comments |
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| 2008 | | “Assault on Reason” Endangers Democracy (npr.org) |
| 84 points | 3 years ago with 100 comments |
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| 2015 | | When tipping was considered un-American (npr.org) |
| 80 points | 3 years ago with 241 comments |
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| 2012 | | Who Killed Lard? (npr.org) |
| 80 points | 9 years ago with 70 comments |
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| 2013 | | The Sounds of New York City, Circa 1920 (npr.org) |
| 80 points | 4 years ago with 15 comments |
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| 2010 | | Even Knowingly Taking A Placebo Seems To Help (npr.org) |
| 78 points | 10 years ago with 32 comments |
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| 2013 | | When Power Goes to Your Head, It May Shut Out Your Heart (npr.org) |
| 78 points | 5 years ago with 36 comments |
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| 2012 | | Alan Lomax's Massive Archive Goes Online (npr.org) |
| 78 points | 9 years ago with 13 comments |
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