The real novelty of the ARPANET
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Designer as author (1996)
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On writing, and an MIT study
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The real reasons your appliances die young
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The Danish government deputized private detectorists to unearth artifacts buried in farm fields. Their finds are revealing the country's past in extraordinary detail.
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The Harvard student who killed her roomate
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Contra Ptacek's terrible article on AI
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‘Weird Al’ Yankovic interview about tour dates, creative freedom and music
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An inside view of hoity-toity (US) East Coast boarding schools
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When the Swedish town of Kallinge discovered their drinking water contained extremely high levels of PFAS, they had no idea what it would mean for their health and their children's future
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Counting all of the yurts in Mongolia using machine learning
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Malleable software
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The magic of through running
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Sincerity wins the war
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Interview between Paul Krugman and Ada Palmer
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Everyone in Hollywood is already using AI (and hiding it)
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hare-update assists in addressing breaking changes in your code
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A history of dome movie theaters
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I think I’m done thinking about genAI for now
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Carlos Alcaraz beats Jannik Sinner to win French Open in tennis classic
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Seven days at the bin store
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SUPERHOT VR's story was removed. What?
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Hollywood has left Los Angeles. For years, studios found it cheaper to shoot elsewhere. Post-industry-collapse, elsewhere is the only place they’ll shoot.
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The Food Lab's chocolate chip cookies
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"Weave Me Another Cocoon" - A hypertext tragedy
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Zoo CAD engine overview
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If you ever stacked cups in gym class blame my dad
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Where have all my deep male friendships gone?
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Inside arXiv — the most transformative platform in all of science
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The era of the business idiot
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Socratic persuasion: Giving opinionated yet truth-seeking advice
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Highlights from the Claude 4 system prompt
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The mother who never stopped believing her son was still there
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My shipwreck story
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We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard.
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The shipwrecks from John Franklin’s doomed arctic expedition were exactly where the Inuit said they would be
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Thomas Keller asked me to leave the French Laundry. It turned into my most extraordinary night as a critic.
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I used a new computer for around a month, here's what I think of every part of it
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What we in the open world are messing up in trying to compete with big tech
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Killing viruses with light, with Jacob Swett
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Will the humanities survive artificial intelligence?
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They don’t read very well: A study of the reading comprehension skills of English majors at two midwestern universities
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Former employees, community members allege AbleGamers founder fostered abuse behind closed doors
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As Tom Cruise brings ‘Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning’ to Cannes, all five franchise directors look back at the wild ride
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Inside the very peculiar and wildly popular world of Armored Medieval Combat
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The root of happiness isn't considered to lie in extravagance or materialism in Helsinki. Here, it's about things that are both smaller and more profound.
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How to salvage a transit project
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The crypto racket - public officials at all levels are propping up a Texas Bitcoin mining boom that’s threatening water and energy systems while afflicting locals with noise pollution
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From the front line to the freezer aisle: How World War II changed the way we eat
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Everyone is cheating their way through college
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