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Alexander the Great's untold story: Excavations in northern Greece are revealing the world that shaped the future king
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Icelanders are famously hardy, but after volcanic eruptions cracked open twenty-metre-deep fissures in Grindavík, residents are asking if they'll ever be allowed back home
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Extracting interpretable features from Claude 3 Sonnet
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The lunacy of Artemis
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How 3M covered up "forever chemicals"
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Fast-rising seas could swamp septic systems in parts of the American South
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The unpunished: How extremists took over Israel
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Fecal microbiota transplant: Inside the black market for human poop
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Nova Scotia’s billion-dollar lobster wars
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Toward a feminist criminal law: Mass incarceration means police and prisons are not simple allies for feminists who want a more just world
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The Controversialist: Marty Peretz and the travails of American liberalism
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Cyber security: A pre-war reality check
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The lonely work of moderating Hacker News
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Houston has seen a gentle density revolution since the 1990s. Allowing neighborhoods to opt out of citywide reforms was crucial.
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America's never-ending battle against flesh-eating worms
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‘Mitzvah night is cancelled’. Inside the sex strike that has infuriated husbands and shaken the ultra-Orthodox world.
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Do children have a “right to hug” their parents?
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Alice Munro, Nobel laureate and master of the short story, dies at 92
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A British nurse was found guilty of killing seven babies. Did she do it?
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Bread, how did they make it? Part IV: Markets, merchants and the tax man
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Inside the Coyotes' stunning move from Arizona to Utah
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The land that doesn’t need Ozempic
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Unlocking the mystery of Paris' most secret underground society
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Meet AdVon, the AI-powered content monster infecting the media industry
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A skeptic’s take on beaming power to Earth from space - Why we shouldn’t try to stick solar plants where the sun always shines
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‘Hopeless and broken’: why the world’s top climate scientists are in despair
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The history of the gas mask
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The five futures of Russia
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The Devil went down to Georgia
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Development notes from xkcd's "Machine"
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Nathan Berman has helped rescue Manhattan’s financial district from a “doom loop” by carving attractive living spaces from hulking buildings that once housed fields of cubicles
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The United States leads the world in airline safety. That’s because of the way we assign blame when accidents do happen.
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Daniel Dennett: 'Where Am I?'
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Flying planes with JavaScript
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George Monbiot comes face to face with his local conspiracy theorist
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‘Red One’ down: How Dwayne Johnson’s tardiness led to a $250 million runaway production
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How ECMO is redefining death
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Climate policy is working – double down on what’s succeeding instead of despairing over what’s not
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New products collect data from your brain. Where does it go?
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Most investments are actually bad. Here’s why.
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Complex systems science allows us to see new paths forward
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The man who killed Google Search
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Student revolt and the curtailing of critical speech
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What birdwatching in the Garden of Earthly Delights can teach us
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Meta in Myanmar, Part II: The Crisis
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Utopian Realism, a speech by Bruce Sterling
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The judgment of Magneto
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Critical psychiatry and the political backlash against disabilities: a closer look at James Davies
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The beautiful dissociation of the Japanese language
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