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Review: Tern Link A7

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2018/08/16

In my eight years on college campuses—first as a student, and then as the girlfriend of a grad student—my cheap, beater bike was stolen four times. Once, the wheels were gone. Another time, the seat. Twice, it just vanished into the ether, leaving only a busted U-lock and broken dreams in its wake. Even if the bike itself only cost fifty or a hundred bucks, the inconvenience was annoying. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:10

These Are Our Favorite Back to School Deals

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2018/08/16

Back-to-school shopping might evoke memories of wandering through big box store sales and throwing Trapper Keepers and pencils into a shopping cart. But nowadays, you're more likely to hunch over a laptop to hunt for great prices than you are to fight for a parking spot at the local mall. If you're looking for college essentials, or a great laptop or tablet, we have a few suggestions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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6:00

If a Group Text Gets Read and No One Reacts, Did It...

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2018/08/15

I often worry I'm an under-reactor. It's not that things don't affect me, or that I'm needlessly stoic—born-and-bred Midwesterners like me tend to be level-headed. (Or at least as even-keeled as one can be in 2018.) This is a purely performative kind of reaction I'm talking about: I don't add the "angry" face to Facebook posts from old high-school classmates, don't "heart" nearly as many tweets as maybe I should. I probably don’t even double-tap enough sunset posts on Instagram. Learn more about

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5:35

Can Elon Musk Really Take Tesla Private?

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2018/08/15

Among the heads of publicly traded companies, Tesla’s Elon Musk might just be the most whimsical, the most impish, the most delightfully trolly. But Musk may be ready to give up that distinction. On Tuesday afternoon, the electric carmaker CEO tweeted that he was considering taking the company private, and that he had secured funding to do so. https://twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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10:19

Save Sarah Jeong! And Kevin Williamson, Quinn Norton,...

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2018/08/14

The work of polemicists like Sarah Jeong, recently hired to The New York Times editorial board, is to make arguments in public space. Polemicists can be insufferable. They get to be gadflies and think themselves Socratic. They’re belligerent. They have a reputation for laziness and Twitter addiction; they often shun shoe leather. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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9:40

Review: Rad Power RadWagon

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2018/08/14

Many of my car journeys are within a mile of my house, hauling toddlers and groceries to and fro. It would be much easier, more fun, and better for the environment, if I could replace at least a few of those trips with an electric cargo bike. However, a few hurdles stand in my way. The first is cost. I loved the versatility and power of the R&M Load, but at $7,000, it costs as much as my current car. Going completely carless would justify the price, but it’s hard to make the commitment. Learn more

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7:23

Stealing a Plane Is Not Easy, So How Did It Happen in...

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2018/08/13

Seattleites got a serious scare on Friday evening when an airport employee stole a large turboprop airplane owned by the Alaska Air Group from the area’s Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, and took it for an unauthorized flight. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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8:38

The President Wants a Space Force. He Might Get One.

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2018/08/13

If policymaking is never easy, and military policymaking is very difficult, it stands to reason that space military policymaking is basically impossible. Yet today, in a speech at the Pentagon, Vice President Mike Pence announced the formation of a sixth branch of the US armed services: a SPACE FORCE! But can that really happen? Well, let’s proceed with the go/no-go. SPACE FORCE! President Donald Trump? “Space Force all the way!” So that’s a GO. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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5:49

Elon Musk Wants to Put an Arcade in Your Tesla, and...

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2018/08/12

Welcome to Replay, our weekly roundup of all the gaming news and happenings you might've missed while you were, y'know, playing games. This week, we've got Elon Musk's attempts to put games in cars, Valve's return to actually making games, and the biggest fighting game tournament in the world. Ah, Elon Musk. Your Teslas may be losing money, but you're never going to run out of ideas, no matter how impractical and expensive they are. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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11:22

Samsung Targets Big-Phone Obsessives With the Galaxy...

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2018/08/10

A funny thing happened in the six years since Samsung first announced its line of Galaxy Note smartphones. A few things happened, more accurately. In an effort to compete with the Note, other phone makers started making large-screened phones, and later, edge-to-edge displays. Big phones got better-looking, in general. Many were imbued with powerful graphics processing. And eventually, the software on other phones began to support features like split-screen multitasking. Learn more about your ad

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11:56

The 20-Year Journey of The Meg, the Movie the...

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2018/08/09

The shark wasn't working. It was the mid-'00s, and Jan de Bont—director of such big-screen velocities as Speed and Twister—was showing off a small sculpture of carcharodon megalodon, the ancient shark that was to be the star of his next film, Meg. Based on Steve Alten's 1997 book, about a deep-sea diver who encounters a prehistoric underwater beast, Meg had been the subject of a million-dollar movie-rights deal before the book was even published. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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8:49

Review: Moto Z3 Play

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2018/08/09

Would you like a Mod to go with that Moto? After three iterations of the Moto Z, it’s clear that Motorola still believes in its line of snap-on magnetic phone accessories. And it should. There are a lot of intriguing Mods you can buy, including a photo printer and a fancy Hasselblad-branded camera, and they all work interchangeably with these Z phones. Unfortunately, Moto Mods haven’t become a selling point yet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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17:19

The Strange Life of a Murderer Turned Crime Blogger

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2018/08/08

Squeeze the trigger of a gun and a spring unwinds. A bolt lurches forward. On that piece of precision-milled steel is a firing pin that ignites a spark and initiates a sequence of events which, if the human will is powerful enough and mechanical tolerance is not exceeded, often ends in death. And tolerance for Martin Kok was running out. As a teenager living north of Amsterdam, Kok sold fish and later cocaine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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2:55

Mars and Saturn Are Ready for Their Close-ups

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2018/08/08

Saturn may be photogenic, but Mars is our nearest neighbor. As the planet approached its closest point to Earth, Hubble had a look. Yes, those summertime dust storms are raging on, and the swirling red particle clouds are in sharp contrast to the bright white polar caps. But also making cameos in the image are the two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos. They’re tiny: Phobos is 14 miles across, and Deimos just 8 miles wide. Reaching for the stars is a lot more fun when the stars are closer. Learn more

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5:27

'Heaven Will Be Mine' Review: In Space, No One Can...

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2018/08/07

It's 1981, in a version of reality where the Cold War was waged not human to human, but human to extraterrestrial enemy from beyond the stars. To fight, we developed robot bodies to wear in space; these Ship-Selves are advanced and almost unkillable, weapons and homes and clothes and identities all rolled into one. And, of course, we got teenagers to pilot them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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8:55

BioLite FirePit Review: A More Civilized Fire

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2018/08/07

A few years ago, I took a weekend wilderness survival class. Deep in the remote woods of Oregon’s coast range, we strung plastic sheets up with fishing line for shelter and practiced signaling with tiny pocket mirrors. Enthralled, I watched as the instructor slowly teased a cotton ball daubed with petroleum jelly into a roaring campfire. Survival class aside, fire starting isn’t one of my skills. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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7:57

The Alex Jones Lawsuit Will Redefine Free Speech, Win...

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2018/08/06

Once upon a time, there was a fringe news outlet with a loud and dissenting opinion. A fatal shooting, it claimed, was not at all what it seemed to be: It was a hoax, orchestrated by some shadowy force—probably Communists—bent on replacing freedom with dictatorship. This was untrue, but that didn’t stop the outlet from naming and insulting alleged collaborators. And so the media outlet was sued for defamation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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7:22

You Won't Miss Brookstone, But You Should

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2018/08/06

In singularly unsurprising news, Brookstone has filed for bankruptcy. The company will shutter its remaining 101 mall storefronts, officially closing out an era that began its fade years ago. Even if you won’t mourn its disappearance—even if you haven’t stepped inside a mall since the Mallrats era—it’s worth a moment of appreciation, and a full accounting of what’s been lost. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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8:46

It's Never Too Late to Be a Reader Again

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2018/08/03

It was a book that drove me away from books. This wasn’t a trauma of distaste, or indulgence: not a literary bad mussel, not waking up on the floor of someone's house with a swimming head and the knowledge that I could never again be within smelling distance of their first editions. My aversion was borne of fear. The fear took root in 2016—which, while decidedly not-great in general, was very much a great year for books. Especially fiction. Especially especially speculative fiction. Learn more about

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7:43

Online Hate Is Rampant. Here's How to Keep It From...

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2018/08/02

Back in the last presidential campaign season, reporters on the tech and politics beats began noticing a rise in far-right memes that supported Trump. Memes being memes, these seemed initially like weird, off-color jokes. They wondered: What the hell is going on? Was this shitposting ironic or serious? Or both? Either way, it seemed newsworthy. The memes were climbing the trending lists on every social network and landing on the front page of Reddit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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