Patrick McKenzie on navigating complex systems
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Silent Spring (Rachel Carson, 1962)
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Notes on the Ivory Coast
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Black-owned land is under siege in the Brazos Valley
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Videoconference fatigue from a neurophysiological perspective (first neurophysiological evidence)
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The great cash-for-carbon hustle
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Cogs in the machine: The crash of Colgan Air flight 3407 and its legacy
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Ada Palmer on viking metaphysics, contingent moments, and censorship
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The villa where doctors experimented on children
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Book review: The Educated Mind
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A wrong turn in fog off the California coast led to the largest peacetime disaster in American naval history
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Icono: A universal language that shows what it says
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Citra progress report 2023 Q2
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Pricing money: A beginner's guide to money, bonds, futures and swaps
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A sunny day in San Francisco: The crash of Asiana Airlines flight 214 - revisited
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“That’s a lot of me. I’m sorry.”: Talking with Julia Wertz about ambition, self-deprecation, and learning how to be earnest
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I really didn’t want to go on the Goop cruise
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Crushed
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“Balkan Cosmology” by Bruce Sterling
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The story of VaccinateCA
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Logistics: How did they do it? Part III, on the move
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The reluctant prophet of effective altruism: William MacAskill's movement set out to help global poor. Now his followers fret about runaway AI. Have they seen our threats clearly, or lost their way?
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Semi-formal study of people trying a fad diet where you eat mostly potatoes for four weeks
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How an Ivy League school turned against a student
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Workflow breakdown of every 2022 Oscars Best Picture nominee
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Wikipedia is declining: In defense of inclusionism (2018)
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The airport: A story of the fall of Kabul
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What is sport?
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Pure nostalgia: The oral history of ‘That Thing You Do!’
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The effects of remote work on collaboration among information workers
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In the Afghanistan countryside, the endless killing of civilians turned women against the occupiers who claimed to be helping them
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Victoria II, Part I: Mechanics and Gears
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What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?
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Kyle Rittenhouse, American vigilante: After he killed two people in Kenosha, opportunists turned his case into a polarizing spectacle
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Nothingness (Why is there something rather than nothing?)
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If correlation doesn’t imply causation, then what does?
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Looking back on the George Floyd rebellion in the US
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The plan to kill Osama bin Laden—from the spycraft to the assault to its bizarre political backdrop—as told by the people in the room
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Book review: Progress and Poverty by Henry George
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Asahi Linux (Linux on Apple Silicon) progress report: January / February 2021
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The (mostly) true story of Vanilla Ice, hip-hop, and the American Dream
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Egypt: Security forces abuse, torture LGBT people
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A deep dive into K-pop
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We don’t know our potential
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Why we don't like our underground house
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In the jungle: Inside the long, hidden genealogy of ‘The Lion Sleeps Tonight’
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Loving the alien - How UFO culture took over America
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The Bush-Gore recount is an omen for 2020: An oral history of the craziest presidential election in modern US history
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CyberBunker: The "bulletproof web hosting" company based in a German Cold War bunker that became a dark-web empire
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GPT-3 writing creative fiction on its own
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