My doctor emailed me back - Abigail Thorn
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After twelve years of writing about bitcoin, here's how my thinking has changed
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The Wicked movie that almost was: Imagine no songs, Demi Moore or Whoopi Goldberg as Elphaba—and it came out twenty-five years ago
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How the novel became a laboratory for experimental physics
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What is wrong with our thoughts? A neo-positivist credo.
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The ghosts in the machine, Spotify and production music
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The secret history of risotto – The dish is governed by a set of laws that are rooted in tradition, rich in common sense, and aching to be broken or bent
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Never forgive them - On digital platforms vs users
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How opioid giant Endo escaped a $7 billion US federal penalty
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Moon
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The Just World Cultural License—a copyleft license to make the world a better place
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How a young Dutch woman’s life began when she was allowed to die
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Magic: the Gathering banned and restricted announcement – December 16, 2024
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Will even the most advanced subs have nowhere to hide?
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It's time to break up Big Medicine in the US
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The evolution of polycrystalline diamond drill bits
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Debanking (and debunking?)
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How Madrid built its metro cheaply
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Inside the war against excessive headlight brightness
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A critical look at CASPer (post-secondary admission test)
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Task-Specific LLM Evals that Do & Don't Work
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The gossip trap - How civilization came to be and how social media is ending it
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Authors choose books to give as gifts this Christmas - 2024 book list and discussion
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The confusing reality of AI friends
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A Man of Parts and Learning - The story behind a portrait of a black intellectual from the 1700s
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How can it take 3GHz to emulate a Super Nintendo? One man’s quest to build a perfect SNES emulator. (2011)
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Inside the hidden history of secretaries and stenographers at Princeton
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Dream logic: An essay on belief, superstition, and love
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Formaldehyde causes more cancer than any other toxic air pollutant. Little is being done to curb the risk.
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Looking back at the Future of Humanity Institute
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How old age was reborn. “The Golden Girls” reframed senior life as being about socializing and sex. But did the cultural narrative of advanced age as continued youth twist the dial too far?
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History is in the making - It's technology and ideas, not politics, that change our lives the most. History should reflect that.
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We built our house for LAN parties
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How to be a wise optimist about science and technology?
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Power creep and the collapse of the Roman Republic
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Mathematicians discover a new kind of shape that’s all over nature (3D tessellating forms)
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“Solidarity is the only thing that can save us”: An interview with Astra Taylor and Leah Hunt-Hendrix
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The price America paid for its first big immigration crackdown
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1891 New Orleans lynchings
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The Texas OB-GYN exodus – Amid increasingly stringent abortion laws, doctors who provide maternal care have been fleeing the state
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‘Wicked’ and ‘Gladiator II’ AKA ‘Glicked’ fuel $205m combined weekend, best pre-Thanksgiving frame in eleven years
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The Business-School research scandal that just keeps getting bigger
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Post-OCSP certificate revocation in the Web PKI
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I now think a heretical form of Christianity might be true
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Should a country speak a single language? In India, one of the world’s most polyglot countries, the government wants more than a billion people to embrace Hindi.
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Book review: Eric Turkheimer's "Understanding the Nature-Nurture Debate"
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Warrant canaries and disclosure by design: The real threat to national security letter gag orders
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Dwayne Johnson became the world’s biggest movie star. Now he’s trying to disappear.
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Why I will always be angry about software engineering
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The online sports gambling experiment has failed
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