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2015Lost at sea: a man who vanished for 14 months (theguardian.com)
95 points | 6 years ago with 31 comments
2007Size isn't everything for the modest creator of SQLite (theguardian.com)
92 points | 8 years ago with 26 comments
2009Drug money saved banks in global crisis, claims UN advisor (theguardian.com)
91 points | 5 years ago with 30 comments
2019Lab-grown food will soon destroy farming – and save the planet (theguardian.com)
90 points | 2 years ago with 53 comments
2016Fordlandia – the failure of Henry Ford's utopian city in the Amazon (theguardian.com)
90 points | 4 years ago with 30 comments
2010Drop that spoon: The truth about breakfast cereals (theguardian.com)
90 points | 9 years ago with 97 comments
2017Richard Ford: Do we really need friends? (theguardian.com)
89 points | 3 years ago with 82 comments
2010Are you an Asker or a Guesser? (theguardian.com)
84 points | 7 months ago with 65 comments
2012Ian Stewart's top popular mathematics books (theguardian.com)
83 points | 4 years ago with 12 comments
2011Why doesn't Britain make things any more? (theguardian.com)
80 points | 4 years ago with 109 comments
2012GlaxoSmithKline fined $3B after bribing doctors to increase drug sales (theguardian.com)
79 points | 8 years ago with 26 comments
2015The Internet Is Run by an Unaccountable Private Company (theguardian.com)
78 points | 4 years ago with 19 comments
2011Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media (theguardian.com)
77 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 3 comments
201119th century cyclists paved the way for modern motorists' roads (theguardian.com)
77 points | 6 years ago with 60 comments
2016Faroe Islands fit cameras to sheep to create Google Street View (theguardian.com)
74 points | 5 years ago with 10 comments
1999Electric currency could trash cash (theguardian.com)
74 points | 6 years ago with 43 comments
2010Elmore Leonard's Rules for Writers (theguardian.com)
73 points | 6 years ago with 64 comments
2015Bone music: the Soviet bootleg records pressed on x-rays (theguardian.com)
73 points | 4 years ago with 19 comments
2011Bobby Fischer: from prodigy to pariah (theguardian.com)
72 points | 8 years ago with 28 comments
2018A giant crawling brain: the world of termites (theguardian.com)
72 points | 2 years ago with 14 comments
2014Why can't all cities have bike bridges like Copenhagen's Cycle Snake? (theguardian.com)
71 points | 5 years ago with 56 comments
2013We cannot afford to be indifferent to internet spying (theguardian.com)
70 points | 5 years ago with 9 comments
2016Hannibal’s route across the Alps (theguardian.com)
69 points | 5 years ago with 15 comments
2014A woman who went to the library and read every book on the shelf (theguardian.com)
68 points | 6 years ago with 38 comments
2013The dwarves of Auschwitz (theguardian.com)
67 points | 8 years ago with 11 comments
2012Thomas Kuhn changed the way the world looked at science (theguardian.com)
67 points | 8 years ago with 83 comments
2017Total recall: the people who never forget (theguardian.com)
67 points | 10 months ago with 85 comments
2002Why are libraries destroying books? (theguardian.com)
65 points | 5 years ago with 75 comments
2019Inside the world of hostage negotiation (theguardian.com)
63 points | 1 year ago with 15 comments
2008'Plain old untrendy troubles and emotions' (theguardian.com)
61 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 31 comments
2017Statistics have lost their power (theguardian.com)
58 points | 4 years ago with 64 comments
2005GM crops created superweed, say scientists (theguardian.com)
58 points | 8 years ago with 27 comments
2013Walkie Talkie architect 'didn't realise it was going to be so hot' (theguardian.com)
58 points | 1 year ago with 54 comments
2016Let's put e-voting where it belongs: on the trash-heap of bad ideas (theguardian.com)
52 points | 3 years ago with 62 comments
2016Death by gentrification: the killing that shamed San Francisco (theguardian.com)
52 points | 5 years ago with 48 comments
2014The seven people who hold the keys to worldwide internet security (theguardian.com)
48 points across 2 posts | 8 months ago with 0 comments
2018Why Silicon Valley Billionaires Are Prepping for the Apocalypse in NZ (theguardian.com)
46 points | 4 years ago with 70 comments
1979Russian way with the mathematical travelling salesman (theguardian.com)
46 points | 9 years ago with 10 comments
2006Websites That Changed the World (theguardian.com)
46 points | 5 months ago with 34 comments
1922James Joyce’s Ulysses reviewed (theguardian.com)
45 points | 2 years ago with 24 comments
2008Daphne Oram: Portrait of an electronic music pioneer (theguardian.com)
45 points | 8 years ago with 8 comments
2012Obama, Facebook and the power of friendship: the 2012 data election (theguardian.com)
45 points | 6 years ago with 3 comments
2016'I hope the concept of cultural appropriation is a passing fad' (theguardian.com)
44 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 0 comments
2011My travels: Judith Schalansky on remote islands (theguardian.com)
44 points | 6 years ago with 7 comments
2001Down with meritocracy (theguardian.com)
44 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 46 comments
2015The end of hot metal printing (theguardian.com)
43 points | 6 years ago with 23 comments
2017Ice age art in Indonesia reveals how spiritual life transformed (theguardian.com)
43 points | 3 years ago with 5 comments
2011The Genius in My Basement (theguardian.com)
42 points | 4 years ago with 54 comments
2000The US Air Force's plan to detonate a nuclear bomb on the moon (theguardian.com)
42 points | 8 years ago with 35 comments
2015Make it now: the rise of the present tense in fiction (theguardian.com)
41 points | 3 years ago with 45 comments
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