Month: July 2022
July 31, 2022
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“Photo by John Thomas on Unsplash Recommendation media is the new standard for content distribution. Here’s why friend graphs can‘t compete in an algorithmic…”
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‘You can’t say that!’: how to argue, better
“A few years ago, I had an argument with a close friend who had decided not to give his children any vaccinations . To preserve our relationship, I vowed never…”
July 30, 2022
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US regulators will certify first small nuclear reactor design
“Enlarge / NuScale’s reactor-in-a-can. NuScale On Friday, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) announced that it would be issuing a certification to a new…”
July 28, 2022
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Is This the Future of Urban Resilience?
“What began as a defensive measure to protect Canada’s largest city from extreme flooding has evolved into one of the most ambitious urban resilience projects in…”
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What’s the Deal With Water Bottles?
“July 9, 2022 A solitary figure, a microphone and a stool. Those are the primary images of stand-up comedy — as reliable and ubiquitous as a book’s cover, spine…”
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Of the hundreds of methods out there to help us get things done…why don’t they, you know, work?
“Back in 2010, Walter Chen and Rodrigo Guzman had a weird idea: a website where you write down the stuff you accomplished that day, and which then emails you a…”
July 27, 2022
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The habits that help prevent allergies
“As a child, Isabelle Gerretsen suffered from a wide range of food allergies. Could scientific advances save others from having to endure the same? W When I was…”
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Is Beyoncé’s Latest Album Rollout (Gasp!) Conventional?
“The singer, who has prioritized innovation over commercial domination, has opted for a more standard playbook ahead of her seventh solo album, “Renaissance,”…”
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The Internet Is a Collective Hallucination
“Sixty years ago the futurist Arthur C. Clarke observed that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. The internet—how we both…”
July 26, 2022
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A terrifying new theory: Fake news and conspiracy theories as an evolutionary strategy
“Political misinformation — whether “fake news,” conspiracy theories or outright lying — has often been attributed to widespread ignorance, even though there are…”
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‘Operating With Increased Intensity’: Zuckerberg Leads Meta Into Next Phase
“Facebook’s founder is setting a relentless pace as he pushes his company through a tech transformation during a global economic slowdown. Send any friend a…”
July 25, 2022
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The Search for America’s Atlantis
“Editor’s note: This article is part of a new series called “ Who Owns America’s Wilderness? ” Like apparitions , California’s Channel Islands sometimes vanish…”
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We Need to Keep Building Houses, Even if No One Wants to Buy
“Right now, builders have too many homes and not enough people to sell them to. In the long term, the United States has the opposite problem: Not enough houses…”
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Results: The Computerized Philosopher: Can You Distinguish Daniel Dennett from a Computer?
“Chat-bots are amazing these days! About a month ago LaMDA made the news when it apparently convinced an engineer at Google that it was sentient. GPT-3 from…”
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Prenups Aren’t Just for Rich People Anymore
“A few months after Sandy Webb moved from Indiana to Arizona, in 1994, she and a close friend decided to go out for drinks at a bar known for its country…”
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““O urs is a period of increasing noise,” Jason Parham wrote earlier this year, for Wired . “Everything is bleeding into everything around it. All trends, large…”
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Orion Magazine – What Counts as Seeing
“Alice Wong: I’ve been thinking a lot about the titles of your books, An Immense World and I Contain Multitudes, because I think most humans don’t really realize…”
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Opinion | Kamala Harris Is Stuck
“Guest Essay Kamala Harris Is Stuck July 25, 2022, 5:00 a.m. ET Credit… Sebastian Hidalgo for The New York Times Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you…”
July 24, 2022
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“PAGE, Ariz. — White sandstone cliffs create a ring around Lake Powell in contrast to the honey- and red-colored desert rock nearby. Evidence that water once,…”
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The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better.
“It is wrong to think that these three statements contradict each other. We need to see that they are all true to see that a better world is possible. July 20,…”
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RRR is an incredible action movie with seriously troubling politics
“S.S. Rajamouli’s RRR (Rise, Roar, Revolt) has taken the world by storm . It’s one of the most expensive Indian films ever made, and one of the most successful ,…”
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Inside Trump ’25: A radical plan for Trump’s second term
“Former President Trump’s top allies are preparing to radically reshape the federal government if he is re-elected, purging potentially thousands of civil…”
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‘Parentese’ Is Truly a Lingua Franca, Global Study Finds
“In an ambitious cross-cultural study, researchers found that adults around the world speak and sing to babies in similar ways. Send any friend a story As a…”
July 23, 2022
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How an Unstable US Threatens Canada’s National Security | The Walrus
“I n her 1972 novel, Surfacing , Margaret Atwood imagines the US takeover of Canada. “The Yank pigs will send in the Marines” to secure our freshwater, having…”
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“In the summer of 2022 a trip to Washington DC can seem like a visit to the scene of a disaster foretold. Having removed Donald Trump from office, and with…”
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These Fins Were Made for Walking … and Then Swimming
“An artist’s reconstructino of Qikiqtania wakei, in light green, and its larger cousin, Tiktaalik roseae. Credit… Alex Boersma Matter Around 375 million years…”
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The Unlikely Odds of Making it Big on TikTok
“It seems like many of the emerging musicians to “make it big” are coming from TikTok. Here’s data to show what I mean. Of the artists who charted on Spotify…”
July 22, 2022
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“I’ve had freckles for as long as I can remember. As a kid, I loved the way the little spots matched my hair and the specks of brown in my eyes. I missed them…”
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Why we don’t remember pandemics
“On the eve of his inauguration as the 46th president of the United States, Joe Biden held a candlelit vigil at the Lincoln Memorial to remember the victims of…”
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Opinion | Liz Cheney’s devastating final question puts the GOP to shame
“In no small part, the GOP in the Donald Trump era has been marked by a craven failure to take offramps. Trump’s encouragement of white supremacy, his…”