Why are so many pedestrians killed by cars in the US?
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A review of Alpha School
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The once and future maternity home
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Updated 2025 fall vaccine guide
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Eliminating contrails from flying could be incredibly cheap
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An existential guide to: making friends
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Ask not why would you work in biology, but rather: why wouldn't you?
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Medicine’s AI knowledge war heats up
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Starship was doomed from the beginning
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The reports of UBI’s death are greatly exaggerated
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On thought experiments
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US FBI readies new war on trans people
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Can AI rescue us from the mess of prior auth?
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The color of the future - A history of blue
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Over 50% of the job cuts in video games are in California
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Where's the Shovelware?
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The evidence that AI is destroying jobs for young people just got stronger
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Substack subscriptions in the iOS app: inflated prices and a new “walled garden” for newsletters
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Data centers don't raise people's water bills
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Glowfics, what are they? Book review: Mad Investor Chaos and the Woman of Asmodeus.
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Review: Cuisine and Empire, by Rachel Laudan
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What heritability actually means
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AI tokens are getting more expensive
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How embryo selection exploits our flawed intuitions about risk
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Review: My Father’s Instant Mashed Potatoes
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First fall: Boundaries of the existential self, part 1
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On weird America
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How social media shortens your life
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Make electricity cheap again (part 1)
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A short post on short trains
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Brazil's publicly funded payment system is pretty cool
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The cultural decline of literary fiction
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China massively overbuilt high-speed rail, says leading economic geographer
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The End Kidney Deaths Act
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Smartphone gambling is a disaster
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Dave Barry found out about his death the way everybody finds out everything: from Google
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Status, class, and the crisis of expertise
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You can now buy eggs from in-ovo sexed hens in the US
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Transit passes are better but free fares are good too
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Nobody has a personality anymore. We are products with labels.
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The internet as a giant Skinner box
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Journavx was approved this year. Why did it take so long to develop?
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An inside view of hoity-toity (US) East Coast boarding schools
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What actually improves your photos
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The magic of through running
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Interview between Paul Krugman and Ada Palmer
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Check out my ongoing project where I try to find out how accurately a LLM can predict sports outcomes
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How to salvage a transit project
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How the US built 5,000 ships in World War II
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“Social media” has always been oxymoronic
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