How Google is killing independent sites like ours
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The uncharted world of emerging pathogens – In their quest to detect early outbreaks, virus hunters are sampling environmental DNA in water, dirt, and air
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How I taught the Iliad to Chinese teenagers
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Exodus bitcoin wallet: $490K swindle
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A decades-long forgery scheme ensnared Canada’s most famous Indigenous artist, a rock musician turned sleuth and several top museums. Here’s how investigators unraveled the incredible scam.
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Progress deferred: Lessons from mRNA vaccine development
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List of unusual units of measurement
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Diseconomies of scale in fraud, spam, support, and moderation
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Robots.txt governed the behavior of web crawlers for over thirty years; AI vendors are ignoring it or proliferating too fast to block
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The price is wrong: How error-riddled scores get in the way of promoting music of marginalized composers
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The day I put $50,000 in a shoe box and handed it to a stranger
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Fake grass, real injuries? Dissecting the NFL’s artificial turf debate.
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The 2023 Hugo Awards: A report on censorship and exclusion
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Hugo voting data from Chengdu WorldCon raises suspicions of vote tampering and incorrect eligibility rulings
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Kristen Stewart ‘I want to do the gayest thing you’ve ever seen in your life’
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The Firehouse Five and the Cinderella surprise
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Twitter/X provides premium perks to Hezbollah, other US-sanctioned groups
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Interview: Kenta Cho (Japanese indie game developer)
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'I've never seen it this bad:' Game developers explain the huge layoffs hitting Riot, Epic, and more
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Interactive: The impacts of climate change at 1.5°C, 2°C and beyond
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How bad are search results? Let's compare Google, Bing, Marginalia, Kagi, Mwmbl, and ChatGPT.
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How a Kalman filter works, in pictures
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Better Living Through Algorithms by Naomi Kritzer
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‘Shōgun’: How a decade of false starts, endless translation debates and one star-turned-producer made a classic story relevant to a 21st century audience
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How I write HTTP services in Go after 13 years
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No, aliens haven’t visited the Earth. Why are so many smart people insisting otherwise?
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Ezra Klein Show: "What relationships would you want if you believed they were possible?"
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Mennonites are pious Christians who eschew much of the modern world. But in Mexico even they have not escaped the pull of the drug cartels.
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A 2024 plea for lean software
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The CHIPS Act treats the symptoms, but not the causes
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When US railroad workers get hurt on the job, some supervisors go to extremes to keep it quiet
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How Nikola Jokić became the world’s best basketball player
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Polyamory, the ruling class’s latest fad
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Forever 2014
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New report shows that a crowded historic neighborhood suffered disproportionate casualties in Lahaina Hawaii fire
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Over three decades, tech obliterated media - my front-row seat to a slow-moving catastrophe
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I is for Intent: why your app turned into spaghetti
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Northern Ireland elects Irish nationalist First Minister Michelle O'Neill
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Reverse engineering standard cell logic in the Intel 386 processor
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Everyone’s a sellout now
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Only the Middle East can fix the Middle East – The path to a post-American regional order
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Seismic City by Joanna Dyl: an economic class and political history of the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake
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Apple Vision Pro review: magic, until it’s not
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A partisan solution to partisan gerrymandering
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How a US mining firm sued Mexico for billions – for trying to protect its own seabed
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Blood, guns, and broken scooters: Inside the chaotic rise and fall of Bird
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"By all means, go after big tech. But for the love of the next generation, don’t pretend that it’s going to help vulnerable youth."
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Inventing the perfect US college applicant – For $120,000 a year, Christopher Rim promises to turn any student into Ivy bait
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Inside the strange, secretive rise of the 'overemployed'
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Fundamental questions about ovaries may unlock longer human lifespan. Philanthropist Nicole Shanahan is spending to find answers.
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