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1.

Larry Page: I’d Rather Leave My Billions to Elon Musk Than to Charity (www.slate.com)

640 points by ghosh 2014-03-20 | 430 comments

2.

I Sold My Startup for $25.5 Million (www.slate.com)

578 points by ForHackernews 2014-06-06 | 236 comments

3.

The FDA buries evidence of fraud in medical trials. My students and I dug it up (www.slate.com)

552 points by tokenadult 2015-02-13 | 173 comments

4.

Where’s _why? (www.slate.com)

548 points by ggualberto 2012-03-15 | 186 comments

5.

Kids should be building rockets and robots, not taking standardized tests (www.slate.com)

526 points by krschultz 2012-06-05 | 196 comments

6.

How Amazon’s ambitious new push for same-day delivery will destroy local retail (www.slate.com)

509 points by rmason 2012-07-11 | 309 comments

7.

Let's Kill All the Mosquitoes (www.slate.com)

491 points by wwilson 2016-04-20 | 425 comments

8.

Before I Can Fix This Tractor, We Have to Fix Copyright Law (www.slate.com)

475 points by sinak 2016-01-13 | 191 comments

9.

Children aren't born smart. They're made smart by conversation (www.slate.com)

472 points by kumarski 2013-10-02 | 276 comments

10.

Gchat Was the Future of Messaging, but Google Didn’t Know (www.slate.com)

452 points by janvdberg 2016-05-27 | 284 comments

11.

Facebook’s Piracy Problem (www.slate.com)

439 points by wesd 2015-07-08 | 236 comments

12.

A Very Unusual Camera That Emphasizes Time Over Space (www.slate.com)

402 points by spathak 2012-10-15 | 58 comments

13.

The FBI faked an entire field of forensic science (2015) (www.slate.com)

398 points by mkagenius 2016-04-27 | 134 comments

14.

Why Should I Care That No One’s Reading Dzhokhar Tsarnaev His Miranda Rights? (www.slate.com)

377 points by mojaveblues 2013-04-20 | 256 comments

15.

People Don’t Actually Like Creativity (www.slate.com)

375 points by wikiburner 2013-12-06 | 214 comments

16.

The Greatest Paper Map of the United States You’ll Ever See (www.slate.com)

332 points by tptacek 2012-01-02 | 90 comments

17.

Space Stasis (Neal Stephenson) (www.slate.com)

322 points by chwolfe 2011-02-02 | 71 comments

18.

LinkedIn called me a white supremacist because I happen to share a name with one (www.slate.com)

320 points by tptacek 2016-05-25 | 179 comments

19.

The lactose-tolerance mutation (www.slate.com)

319 points by MaysonL 2012-10-29 | 169 comments

20.

Nullsoft: The death of the last maverick tech company (2004) (www.slate.com)

302 points by diggan 2017-02-03 | 168 comments

21.

CDC map quietly confirms the Haitian cholera epidemic started by UN peacekeepers (www.slate.com)

300 points by nkurz 2016-04-15 | 56 comments

22.

RadioShack Sold Consumer Data to Pay Off Its Debts (www.slate.com)

299 points by wglb 2015-05-19 | 147 comments

23.

Michael Hastings Sent Panicked Email Hours Before Car Crash (www.slate.com)

298 points by ctoth 2013-07-02 | 219 comments

24.

Why are restaurant websites so awful? Because of restaurant culture. (www.slate.com)

297 points by jillsy 2011-08-09 | 128 comments

25.

How 'One Weird Trick' Conquered The Internet (www.slate.com)

294 points by weston 2013-07-31 | 128 comments

26.

Free Online Education Is Now Illegal in Minnesota (www.slate.com)

291 points by paufernandez 2012-10-19 | 150 comments

27.

TPP could thwart computer security research and tinkering (www.slate.com)

287 points by walterbell 2015-10-16 | 72 comments

28.

That “distressed baby" Tim Armstrong blamed for benefit cuts? She’s my daughter (www.slate.com)

284 points by selmnoo 2014-02-09 | 270 comments

29.

Massive New Surveillance Program Uncovered by Wall Street Journal (www.slate.com)

283 points by mtgx 2012-12-16 | 198 comments

30.

The Poisonous Employee-Ranking System That Helps Explain Microsoft’s Decline (www.slate.com)

279 points by probabilistic 2013-08-23 | 220 comments

31.

The 2005 screenwriting book that’s taken over Hollywood (www.slate.com)

278 points by markcmyers 2013-07-19 | 173 comments

32.

The hardest computer game of all time (www.slate.com)

276 points by tptacek 2014-01-24 | 63 comments

33.

Email made me miserable, so I decided to build my own email app from scratch (www.slate.com)

273 points by dmbaggett 2015-12-14 | 159 comments

34.

Asiana Airlines Flight 214: A Pilot’s Perspective (www.slate.com)

271 points by sheri 2013-07-09 | 170 comments

35.

Infinite Copyright Is Killing Culture (www.slate.com)

266 points by guelo 2012-03-30 | 95 comments

36.

We Have No Idea If Online Ads Work (www.slate.com)

258 points by hownottowrite 2014-06-22 | 158 comments

37.

The Rise of "Logical Punctuation". (www.slate.com)

253 points by brianl 2011-05-13 | 200 comments

38.

European Parliament Up In Arms Over PRISM (www.slate.com)

252 points by chrbutler 2013-06-11 | 40 comments

39.

We Should Have a Better Condom by Now (www.slate.com)

250 points by danso 2015-04-02 | 133 comments

40.

Why do airplane windows have tiny holes? (www.slate.com)

246 points by mml 2015-05-31 | 66 comments

41.

Text-only video game shows how genre can be beautiful, innovative and complex (www.slate.com)

246 points by ndarilek 2015-01-22 | 85 comments

42.

The End of the Credit Card? New Square app: Card Case (www.slate.com)

245 points by qxb 2011-11-02 | 133 comments

43.

This picture is worth a thousand pictures (www.slate.com)

240 points by abhimir 2012-10-05 | 38 comments

44.

Why drivers in China intentionally kill the pedestrians they hit (www.slate.com)

237 points by fhinson 2015-09-05 | 240 comments

45.

The Design Flaw That Almost Wiped Out an NYC Skyscraper (www.slate.com)

232 points by x43b 2014-04-17 | 88 comments

46.

The New Aaron Swartz Documentary Looks Powerful. Here's the Trailer (www.slate.com)

232 points by jamesisaac 2014-05-01 | 57 comments

47.

If the NSA Trusted Edward Snowden With Our Data, Why Should We Trust the NSA? (www.slate.com)

232 points by reaganing 2013-06-10 | 77 comments

48.

Confessions of a Used-Book Salesman (www.slate.com)

231 points by mcknz 2010-10-06 | 101 comments

49.

Amazon: Ponzi Scheme or Wal-Mart of the Web? (2000) (www.slate.com)

225 points by kyleslattery 2011-06-03 | 81 comments

50.

Apple's New Pinch-To-Zoom Monopoly is Bad News (www.slate.com)

220 points by bookwormAT 2012-08-28 | 222 comments

51.

Game Developers Are Trolling the Makers of Candy Crush With Other "Candy" Games (www.slate.com)

220 points by x43b 2014-01-31 | 77 comments

52.

MIT can honor Aaron Swartz by fighting to make journals open to everyone (www.slate.com)

219 points by RyanMcGreal 2013-02-01 | 58 comments

53.

Kate Middleton’s Wedding Gown Demonstrates Wikipedia’s Woman Problem (www.slate.com)

217 points by soupboy 2012-07-14 | 174 comments

54.

Breaking News is broken (www.slate.com)

210 points by marban 2013-04-20 | 109 comments

55.

Why White Tigers Should Go Extinct (www.slate.com)

209 points by onemach 2012-12-15 | 78 comments

56.

The Most Isolated Man on the Planet (www.slate.com)

206 points by grellas 2010-08-21 | 76 comments

57.

The world is not falling apart: The trend lines (www.slate.com)

205 points by crgt 2014-12-24 | 111 comments

58.

A web-reading bot made millions on the options market (www.slate.com)

200 points by prostoalex 2015-04-26 | 129 comments

59.

Google Pays for Drones To Bust African Rhino Poachers (www.slate.com)

199 points by wslh 2012-12-18 | 83 comments

60.

In China, the rich and powerful can hire body doubles to do their prison time (www.slate.com)

197 points by muratmutlu 2012-08-04 | 94 comments

61.

Why Can’t Americans Get a Raise? (www.slate.com)

195 points by drewrv 2017-07-14 | 364 comments

62.

Death by Inches: The battle over the metric system in America (www.slate.com)

192 points by rpm4321 2014-08-09 | 350 comments

63.

Coder's High – The Intense Feeling of Absorption (www.slate.com)

191 points by chippy 2014-06-22 | 48 comments

64.

Deleting the Family Tree – Ancestry.com erased 10 years of correspondence (www.slate.com)

190 points by uptown 2015-04-24 | 93 comments

65.

Stop Pagination Now (www.slate.com)

189 points by zonotope 2012-10-03 | 90 comments

66.

Why Do We Say “Big Red Barn,” But “Red Big Barn” Sounds Wrong? (www.slate.com)

188 points by tokenadult 2014-08-18 | 117 comments

67.

How Reddit went from a second-tier aggregator to the Web’s unstoppable force (www.slate.com)

187 points by robg 2012-01-21 | 84 comments

68.

I opened a charming neighborhood coffee shop. Then it destroyed my life. (www.slate.com)

186 points by peter123 2009-02-02 | 96 comments

69.

A linguist on Arrival's alien language (2016) (www.slate.com)

184 points by CarolineW 2017-03-27 | 170 comments

70.

Children of parents classified as “tiger” have worse grades, are more depressed (www.slate.com)

179 points by nostrademons 2013-05-09 | 170 comments

71.

Death to the Gerrymander (www.slate.com)

179 points by rashkov 2017-01-10 | 112 comments

72.

Universal basic income: A nonprofit is about to test it in a big way (www.slate.com)

179 points by MaysonL 2016-04-15 | 153 comments

73.

Death to MS Word (www.slate.com)

178 points by forkandwait 2012-04-12 | 154 comments

74.

Loneliness Is Deadly (www.slate.com)

177 points by mmq 2013-08-24 | 83 comments

75.

Things that happen at a lock-picking convention (2013) (www.slate.com)

173 points by pmoriarty 2017-04-02 | 123 comments

76.

The Thirty-Seven Basic Plots, According to a Screenwriter of the Silent Film Era (www.slate.com)

171 points by samclemens 2015-10-27 | 65 comments

77.

German Cloud Company Offering Free Heat If You Have Room for Some of Its Servers (www.slate.com)

171 points by throwaway_yy2Di 2014-11-13 | 83 comments

78.

How Daft Punk Created One of Their Most Famous Samples (www.slate.com)

169 points by rpm4321 2014-01-04 | 93 comments

79.

Convicted by Code: Defendants should be able to inspect code used in forensics (www.slate.com)

168 points by Figs 2015-10-13 | 39 comments

80.

Cannes Will Ban Streaming-Only Movies from Competition (www.slate.com)

168 points by prostoalex 2017-05-12 | 170 comments

81.

Why you should never, ever use two spaces after a period (www.slate.com)

167 points by apress 2011-01-14 | 167 comments

82.

No, Diatoms Have Not Been Found in a Meteorite (www.slate.com)

166 points by jalanco 2013-03-12 | 67 comments

83.

The Curious Case of Polywater (www.slate.com)

165 points by venutip 2013-11-08 | 37 comments

84.

NetFlix: America's Most Underestimated Company (www.slate.com)

164 points by mattrjacobs 2010-09-02 | 123 comments

85.

Peter Norvig on Being Wrong (www.slate.com)

164 points by plinkplonk 2010-08-04 | 28 comments

86.

How bathroom posture affects your health. (www.slate.com)

164 points by carnevalem 2010-08-31 | 100 comments

87.

The US government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition (2010) (www.slate.com)

163 points by leksak 2016-09-04 | 98 comments

88.

Leo the Homeless Coder Finished His App, and You Can Download It Right Now (www.slate.com)

162 points by antr 2013-12-10 | 93 comments

89.

FBI wants real-time Gmail, Dropbox spying power (www.slate.com)

161 points by Lightning 2013-03-27 | 70 comments

90.

Sinquefield Cup: One of the most amazing feats in chess history (www.slate.com)

161 points by edw519 2014-09-18 | 56 comments

91.

Listen to AOL’s CEO Fire Employee in Conference Call With 1,000 people (www.slate.com)

157 points by wikiburner 2013-08-12 | 125 comments

92.

Tesla: a little bit Apple, a little bit Google, and about to be huge (www.slate.com)

156 points by eplanit 2013-05-11 | 172 comments

93.

Why Do So Many Zippers Say YKK? (2012) (www.slate.com)

155 points by Tomte 2016-04-30 | 60 comments

94.

Three Congressmen Are Using Red Tape to Bind SpaceX to Earth (www.slate.com)

154 points by rpm4321 2014-08-25 | 70 comments

95.

A single line of Basic sends readers into a labyrinth (www.slate.com)

153 points by munishdayal 2012-12-01 | 89 comments

96.

My coffeehouse nightmare (2005) (www.slate.com)

152 points by wallflower 2017-05-01 | 113 comments

97.

Why Nearly Every Film Ends by Saying It’s Fiction (www.slate.com)

152 points by yurisagalov 2016-08-27 | 83 comments

98.

Federal Court Establishes Constitutional Right to Film Police Officers in Public (www.slate.com)

151 points by jseliger 2017-07-08 | 13 comments

99.

What it was like shooting the movie Sneakers (www.slate.com)

148 points by aarghh 2012-09-10 | 46 comments

100.

Ego depletion theory may have been debunked (www.slate.com)

148 points by platz 2016-03-07 | 99 comments

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