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Guide du flakka, la drogue qui terrorise le sud de la Floride
The drug, which can produce powerful hallucinogenic effects comparable to those produced by bath salts, has garnered national attention in past week or so, with the Drudge Report linking to three…
La Chine, sans doute nostalgique de Mao, remet un prix de la paix à un tyran africain sanguinaire
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, who has held power in the country for 35 years through an oppressive dictatorship, was just awarded a peace prize by a committee in China. Zimbabwean dictator…
Les robots sont programmés pour nous mentir
"Crosswalk buttons in New York are a lie. So is the “door close” button in most elevators. That ticking clock telling you your download is 68% finished? Also a lie." These are…
Mobile advertising is killing itself
"Wherever you are, whatever you’re doing, you are expending one of the world’s most precious commodities: your attention." Mobile advertising is killing itself, par Felix Salmon de Fusion At USA Today,…
Lisez cette lettre d’un ancien esclave à son maître
"I have often felt uneasy about you. I thought the Yankees would have hung you long before this, for harboring Rebs they found at your house." Read this incredible letter…
Qu’est-ce que la cocaïne noire et d’où vient-elle?
«In yet another wildly innovative attempt to conceal drug shipments, narcos are now apparently mixing cocaine with zinc to disguise the white powder as the black ink material used to…
An emoji love story
by Cara Rose DeFabio and Animation Pedro Alvarez, Fusion
Saudi Arabian women have finally gained the right to drive – at least virtually.
Emily DeRuy Fusion In what appears to be an act of straight-up trolling his own family, a Saudi prince is creating a videogame called “Saudi Girls Revolution,” that features young…
“America forgot about us”: Sketchbook from the streets of Baltimore
Fusion Graphic journalist Dan Archer recently spoke with several community members in Baltimore about the unrest there since Freddie Gray’s death. All drawings were done live while people told their…
This scientific paper has 2,863 authors. How?
Fusion The scientific journal eLife published a paper on viruses last month– specifically, the genetics of bacteriophages: viruses that infect, and replicate within, bacteria. By sequencing the genomes of individual bacteriophages,…