firstbase's submissions

1.		A copywriter swindled victims out of $200M by pretending to be a psychic (thewalrus.ca)
		87 points by firstbase on July 26, 2023 \| past \| 82 comments
2.		The first minute of every phone call is torture now (theatlantic.com)
		243 points by firstbase on Oct 31, 2022 \| past \| 442 comments
3.		NY energy grid: Real-time dashboard (nyiso.com)
		169 points by firstbase on March 11, 2022 \| past \| 121 comments
4.		Divorce does funny things (theparisreview.org)
		194 points by firstbase on Nov 16, 2021 \| past \| 359 comments
5.		Exceptional Naming (kevlinhenney.medium.com)
		55 points by firstbase on June 26, 2021 \| past \| 6 comments
6.		Gratitude and Forbearance: On Christopher Lasch (2011) (thenation.com)
		7 points by firstbase on March 10, 2021 \| past \| 3 comments
7.		Gustave Courbet’s ‘Origin of the World’, 19th Century’s most notorious painting (frieze.com)
		19 points by firstbase on Dec 16, 2020 \| past \| 22 comments
8.		No Barbarians Necessary (nybooks.com)
		38 points by firstbase on Oct 26, 2020 \| past \| 46 comments
9.		Anxiety, depression, and PTSD may be adaptive responses to adversity: study (psychologytoday.com)
		327 points by firstbase on Sept 3, 2020 \| past \| 259 comments
10.		Filling in PDF forms with Python (2018) (yoongkang.com)
		73 points by firstbase on April 10, 2020 \| past \| 18 comments
11.		From Manchester to Barcelona: Building a better story about the internet (logicmag.io)
		24 points by firstbase on Jan 14, 2020 \| past \| 3 comments
12.		What I have learned from my suicidal patients (theguardian.com)
		125 points by firstbase on Nov 23, 2019 \| past \| 175 comments
13.		Supercritical CO2 is heavy like a liquid, with weird and useful properties (popula.com)
		212 points by firstbase on Oct 25, 2019 \| past \| 55 comments
14.		High in the Cascades, a lone fire lookout still keeps watch (nytimes.com)
		2 points by firstbase on Sept 28, 2019 \| past
15.		The Urban Planning Behind America’s Weirdest McDonald’s (theamericanconservative.com)
		75 points by firstbase on Sept 2, 2019 \| past \| 54 comments
16.		Was John Keats a graverobber? (bbc.com)
		5 points by firstbase on July 24, 2019 \| past
17.		Frantz Fanon and the CIA Man (oup.com)
		51 points by firstbase on June 16, 2019 \| past \| 6 comments
18.		Dark Side of the Ring: Pro Wrestling and Americana (spectator.us)
		23 points by firstbase on May 16, 2019 \| past \| 2 comments

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