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1.

After rising for 100 years, electricity demand is flat (www.vox.com)

633 points by aaronbrethorst 2018-02-27 | 496 comments

2.

Costa Rica has gone 76 days using 100% renewable electricity (www.vox.com)

579 points by denzil_correa 2016-09-09 | 352 comments

3.

I spent the last 15 years trying to become an American and failed (www.vox.com)

526 points by anu_gupta 2015-06-23 | 588 comments

4.

Obama calls for municipal broadband (www.vox.com)

520 points by davmre 2015-01-14 | 275 comments

5.

Why 30 is the decade friends disappear (www.vox.com)

512 points by pmcpinto 2016-11-13 | 346 comments

6.

Coffee naps are better than coffee or naps alone (www.vox.com)

470 points by dctoedt 2014-08-28 | 161 comments

7.

With genetic testing, I gave my parents the gift of divorce (www.vox.com)

467 points by anigbrowl 2014-09-09 | 212 comments

8.

The button: social experiment driving Reddit crazy (www.vox.com)

461 points by prawn 2015-04-13 | 214 comments

9.

Anxiety and burnout: why kids are consumed with worry (www.vox.com)

436 points by petethomas 2019-01-10 | 436 comments

10.

Superblocks: how Barcelona is taking city streets back from cars (www.vox.com)

435 points by based2 2016-08-06 | 232 comments

11.

How Automakers Invented the Crime of “Jaywalking” (www.vox.com)

429 points by JackFr 2018-01-16 | 424 comments

12.

What I learned from reading a thousand emergency room bills (www.vox.com)

424 points by jedwhite 2018-12-19 | 583 comments

13.

A bot crawled thousands of studies looking for simple math errors (www.vox.com)

421 points by MollyR 2016-10-05 | 207 comments

14.

Painkillers now kill more Americans than any illegal drug (www.vox.com)

415 points by davidbarker 2016-03-09 | 308 comments

15.

The last thing libraries need is Silicon Valley “disruption.” (www.vox.com)

411 points by naters 2018-07-27 | 332 comments

16.

How the Dutch created a casual biking culture (www.vox.com)

388 points by jseliger 2018-08-28 | 383 comments

17.

Kill the laws that keep car dealers in business (www.vox.com)

378 points by prostoalex 2015-10-28 | 315 comments

18.

Canadian doctors reverse severe MS using stem cells (www.vox.com)

371 points by yurisagalov 2016-06-11 | 77 comments

19.

I was Zuckerberg’s speechwriter (www.vox.com)

347 points by huntermeyer 2018-04-17 | 254 comments

20.

Maps of the Roman Empire (www.vox.com)

345 points by kcovia 2014-08-19 | 91 comments

21.

Most images of black holes are illustrations. Here’s what our telescopes capture (www.vox.com)

335 points by shawndumas 2018-02-28 | 163 comments

22.

Once seniors are too old to drive, our transportation system fails them (www.vox.com)

328 points by edward 2018-01-22 | 310 comments

23.

Interview with DuckDuckGo CEO Gabe Weinberg (www.vox.com)

323 points by denzil_correa 2019-05-27 | 167 comments

24.

The smug style in American liberalism (www.vox.com)

314 points by andars 2016-11-09 | 417 comments

25.

Software patents are crumbling, thanks to the Supreme Court (www.vox.com)

290 points by mcfunley 2014-09-12 | 98 comments

26.

Big Cable says investment is flourishing, but their data says it's falling (www.vox.com)

290 points by luu 2014-05-13 | 53 comments

27.

Why you shouldn't exercise to lose weight (www.vox.com)

280 points by DiabloD3 2016-04-29 | 279 comments

28.

Why restaurants became so loud (www.vox.com)

277 points by curtis 2018-07-27 | 189 comments

29.

California is cracking down on the gig economy (www.vox.com)

264 points by luu 2019-05-31 | 319 comments

30.

The TSA is a waste of money that doesn't save lives and might actually cost them (www.vox.com)

258 points by paulpauper 2016-05-18 | 254 comments

31.

Economics journal only publishes results that are no big deal (www.vox.com)

258 points by paulpauper 2019-05-21 | 46 comments

32.

Underestimating the mind-warping potential of fake video (www.vox.com)

253 points by anarbadalov 2018-04-23 | 192 comments

33.

Fundamental rule of traffic: building new roads makes people drive more (2015) (www.vox.com)

244 points by jseliger 2018-12-28 | 293 comments

34.

Reid Hoffman on the relationship between employers and employees (www.vox.com)

231 points by jrs235 2015-05-22 | 153 comments

35.

Larry Page is pouring millions into flying cars (www.vox.com)

230 points by dankohn1 2016-12-30 | 224 comments

36.

Author of ‘Sapiens’ on how meditation made him a better historian (www.vox.com)

222 points by prostoalex 2017-03-19 | 87 comments

37.

Bored Lonely Angry Stupid (www.vox.com)

218 points by laurex 2019-05-02 | 126 comments

38.

Confessions of a Congressman (www.vox.com)

207 points by anigbrowl 2015-02-07 | 157 comments

39.

Late sleepers are tired of being discriminated against (www.vox.com)

206 points by jseliger 2016-03-31 | 171 comments

40.

Today's rich families in Florence were rich 700 years ago (www.vox.com)

202 points by elberto34 2016-05-19 | 103 comments

41.

Big companies are stopping Congress from fixing the patent system (www.vox.com)

201 points by __Joker 2015-05-01 | 80 comments

42.

Google cancels AI ethics board in response to outcry (www.vox.com)

199 points by minimaxir 2019-04-04 | 355 comments

43.

How salad became a major source of food poisoning in the US (www.vox.com)

191 points by curtis 2018-05-03 | 234 comments

44.

How automakers invented the crime of “jaywalking” (www.vox.com)

187 points by smacktoward 2015-01-15 | 189 comments

45.

Living in Switzerland ruined me for America and its lousy work culture (2016) (www.vox.com)

185 points by DiabloD3 2017-01-25 | 177 comments

46.

Why police could seize a college student's life savings without charging him (www.vox.com)

182 points by jseliger 2015-10-10 | 180 comments

47.

Want to end mass incarceration? Stop blindly reelecting your local prosecutor (www.vox.com)

182 points by iamjeff 2016-09-02 | 80 comments

48.

The Mars company has sponsored hundreds of studies to show cocoa is good (www.vox.com)

178 points by inertial 2017-10-18 | 122 comments

49.

US election system reveals frightening vulnerabilities at almost every level (www.vox.com)

177 points by throwaway2048 2018-10-28 | 146 comments

50.

Pinker: “News is a misleading way to understand the world” (www.vox.com)

176 points by jseliger 2016-08-16 | 87 comments

51.

Uber has defeated Bill de Blasio’s plan to rein them in (www.vox.com)

174 points by jseliger 2015-07-22 | 250 comments

52.

Solar and wind are coming. And the power sector isn’t ready (www.vox.com)

174 points by spenrose 2018-07-22 | 102 comments

53.

A bipartisan plan to end surprise ER bills (www.vox.com)

172 points by jseliger 2018-09-28 | 151 comments

54.

We need to call American breakfast what it often is: dessert (www.vox.com)

166 points by hippich 2016-07-12 | 219 comments

55.

Stars may collide in a “red nova” in 2022 (www.vox.com)

164 points by aaronbrethorst 2017-01-08 | 48 comments

56.

Intel made a huge mistake 10 years ago (www.vox.com)

163 points by molecule 2016-04-20 | 189 comments

57.

Ecuador legalized gangs and murder rates plummeted (www.vox.com)

160 points by nwatson 2019-04-24 | 69 comments

58.

Maps that illustrate the global economy (www.vox.com)

158 points by ejr 2014-08-27 | 40 comments

59.

Google’s new AI ethics board is already falling apart (www.vox.com)

157 points by cpeterso 2019-04-03 | 239 comments

60.

Blade Runner re-encoded using neural networks (www.vox.com)

151 points by signa11 2016-06-03 | 66 comments

61.

Nonprofit in Queens taught people to write apps, incomes rose from $15k to $72k (www.vox.com)

151 points by blahedo 2014-04-22 | 57 comments

62.

NYC's brand new subway is the most expensive in the world (www.vox.com)

147 points by jseliger 2017-01-02 | 95 comments

63.

Emergency rooms are monopolies (www.vox.com)

146 points by jseliger 2017-12-08 | 169 comments

64.

What convinced the Supreme Court to take the Wisconsin gerrymandering case? (www.vox.com)

145 points by fritzw 2017-07-12 | 89 comments

65.

Global living conditions are getting better (www.vox.com)

144 points by diogofranco 2016-12-29 | 141 comments

66.

Bike lanes have sped up car traffic in New York City (www.vox.com)

139 points by dodders 2014-09-10 | 294 comments

67.

The kids are all right (www.vox.com)

138 points by pmcpinto 2016-02-13 | 70 comments

68.

China is making electric buses cheap, just like it did for solar panels (www.vox.com)

137 points by jseliger 2018-07-24 | 108 comments

69.

Job hopping helped Silicon Valley thrive. Why do other states restrict it? (www.vox.com)

136 points by molecule 2016-04-12 | 132 comments

70.

We’re underestimating the mind-warping potential of fake video (www.vox.com)

136 points by theonionspeaks 2018-07-23 | 102 comments

71.

The effects of living in a poor neighborhood (www.vox.com)

136 points by micaeloliveira 2016-06-07 | 130 comments

72.

The rich are hoarding economic growth (www.vox.com)

135 points by rubicon33 2017-08-20 | 146 comments

73.

Net neutrality is dying with a whimper (www.vox.com)

129 points by urahara 2017-07-19 | 134 comments

74.

The rise of fear-based social media like Nextdoor, Citizen, and Amazon Neighbors (www.vox.com)

129 points by cardamomo 2019-05-08 | 112 comments

75.

How Wall Street recruits so many Ivy League grads (www.vox.com)

127 points by seferphier 2014-05-16 | 123 comments

76.

The proportion of medical procedures unsupported by evidence may be nearly half (www.vox.com)

126 points by lnguyen 2017-12-29 | 42 comments

77.

Intellectual humility: the importance of knowing you might be wrong (www.vox.com)

126 points by XzetaU8 2019-01-12 | 78 comments

78.

Will minimum wage hikes lead to a huge boost in automation? Only if we're lucky (www.vox.com)

125 points by frostmatthew 2016-04-02 | 364 comments

79.

The IPO is dying – Marc Andreessen explains why (www.vox.com)

124 points by ascertain 2014-06-28 | 124 comments

80.

These states let police take your stuff even if you haven't committed a crime (www.vox.com)

122 points by dankohn1 2016-04-22 | 24 comments

81.

The UN thinks we could hit peak births in 2014 (www.vox.com)

122 points by prostoalex 2014-07-17 | 96 comments

82.

California lawmakers introduce plan to end surprise ER bills (www.vox.com)

121 points by howard941 2019-02-25 | 115 comments

83.

Congress just voted to legalize hemp (www.vox.com)

121 points by gdubs 2018-12-13 | 62 comments

84.

American energy use (www.vox.com)

118 points by yread 2017-05-08 | 97 comments

85.

The human costs of Black Friday, explained by a former Amazon warehouse manager (www.vox.com)

118 points by arsn_lsnk 2018-11-23 | 106 comments

86.

Decline in the labor share of income in the U.S. (www.vox.com)

117 points by whocansay 2015-10-23 | 119 comments

87.

How cheap does solar power need to get before it takes over the world? (www.vox.com)

117 points by jseliger 2016-04-18 | 106 comments

88.

Citizens allowed to sue on behalf of Lake Erie when it’s being polluted (www.vox.com)

116 points by howard941 2019-02-27 | 49 comments

89.

Yahoo lays off 1,700 and is up for sale (www.vox.com)

115 points by Shofo 2016-02-03 | 64 comments

90.

Why is it taking longer and longer to fill open jobs? (www.vox.com)

115 points by jrs235 2015-06-21 | 175 comments

91.

Take notes by hand, not on a laptop (www.vox.com)

114 points by jamesbritt 2014-06-07 | 82 comments

92.

China no longer has a stranglehold on the world's supply of rare earth metals (www.vox.com)

114 points by nkurz 2014-10-23 | 66 comments

93.

Emergency room patients can face steep bills even when treatment is declined (www.vox.com)

114 points by jseliger 2018-05-02 | 236 comments

94.

It's time for the US to use the metric system (www.vox.com)

113 points by djug 2014-05-30 | 203 comments

95.

The hippest internet cafe of 1995 [video] (www.vox.com)

110 points by shifte 2016-09-26 | 70 comments

96.

Silicon Valley's housing crisis, in one sentence (www.vox.com)

110 points by jseliger 2016-06-07 | 200 comments

97.

In 1900, Los Angeles had a bike highway (www.vox.com)

110 points by jrs235 2015-07-01 | 42 comments

98.

A third of the homeless people in America are over 50 and I’m one of them (www.vox.com)

108 points by dwaxe 2016-09-29 | 162 comments

99.

John Ioannidis has dedicated his life to quantifying how science is broken (www.vox.com)

108 points by based2 2016-01-10 | 25 comments

100.

Clarence Thomas seems ready to stop civil asset forfeiture (www.vox.com)

107 points by elberto34 2017-03-12 | 23 comments

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