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First fall: Boundaries of the existential self, part 1 ~humanities philosophy Article 1639 words 7 votes
China massively overbuilt high-speed rail, says leading economic geographer ~transport Article 11 501 words 24 votes
Dave Barry found out about his death the way everybody finds out everything: from Google ~tech internet google.search Article 1180 words 23 votes
Nobody has a personality anymore. We are products with labels. ~health.mental Article 1500 words 32 votes
Journavx was approved this year. Why did it take so long to develop? ~health medicine Article 595 words 15 votes
Check out my ongoing project where I try to find out how accurately a LLM can predict sports outcomes ~sports Article 53 words 5 votes
Robot dexterity still doesn't come close to matching human capability ~engineering Article 1713 words 22 votes
The wax and wane of Greatest Common Factor Islam in the New Jersey suburbs ~humanities religion Article 2273 words 12 votes
An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip ~tech Article 1026 words 43 votes
How population stratification led to a decade of sensationally false genetic findings ~science Article 3690 words 15 votes
Virologists are still bringing dangerous, novel pathogens in from the wild ~health Article 1181 words 11 votes
Hatching a conspiracy: an antitrust lawyer writes about the consolidation of ownership of chicken genetics and egg production ~food Link 9 votes
California Governor Gavin Newsom "completely aligns" with Charlie Kirk on trans athlete issue, and agreed about restricting gender affirming care for prisoners and youths, in podcast ~lgbt transgender Article 792 words 39 votes
Of trains and tanks. Or does the German political class actually know how bad things are? ~transport Article 1537 words 21 votes
Oscar-nominated and broke: Two directors nominated for Academy Awards shine a light on the worsening economics of indie film ~movies Article 1784 words 19 votes