May 17, 2022
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Ask an Art Adviser: Is Art a Bubble? Are NFTs Art?
“Lisa Schiff weighs in on the state of the global art market — and what she learned from advising Leonardo DiCaprio. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you…”
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House Panel Opens Public Hearing on Unexplained Aerial Sightings
“An intelligence subcommittee will hear testimony from two Pentagon officials on observations by military pilots and others. Send any friend a story As a…”
May 15, 2022
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Started Out as a Fish. How Did It End Up Like This?
“A meme about the transitional fossil Tiktaalik argues that although we did emerge from the sea, we aren’t doing just fine. Send any friend a story As a…”
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Opinion | The Real Twitter Is Not for Sale
“Tressie McMillan Cottom The Real Twitter Is Not for Sale May 3, 2022, 5:00 a.m. ET Credit… Aaron M Sprecher/EPA, via Shutterstock Send any friend a story As a…”
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The ‘Staircase’ Filmmakers Feel ‘Betrayed’ by HBO Max’s Adaptation
“What separates Jean-Xavier de Lestrade ’s The Staircase from other crime documentaries is its astonishing access. While chronicling the defense strategy of…”
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“Whatever else you want to say about Elon Musk, there is one undeniable fact in his favor: he is the first person to become the richest person in the world by…”
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The War in Ukraine Calls for a Reset of Biden’s Foreign Policy
““The invasion of Ukraine is a paradigm shift on the scale of 9/11,” British Foreign Minister Liz Truss told an audience in Washington on March 10. “How we…”
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Opinion | Americans are stuck in an age of scarcity, and they don’t like it
“Why are Americans so gloomy about the economy? Jobs are plentiful and unemployment is back at pre-pandemic lows , yet sentiment is in the dumps . The obvious…”
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Your Phone May Soon Replace Many of Your Passwords – Krebs on Security
“Apple , Google and Microsoft announced this week they will soon support an approach to authentication that avoids passwords altogether, and instead requires…”
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Nine Worrying Signs About the Economy
“The American economy isn’t looking great right now. U.S. GDP shrank last quarter, despite a hearty showing from American consumers. Inflation is high; markets…”
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The Story of the Three Bears by Samuel Jay Keyser – Berfrois
“Edvard Munch, The Fairy-Tale Forest , 1927 by Samuel Jay Keyser In 1837 Robert Southey (1774-1843), a British poet and a member of the so-called Lake District…”
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“[A little housekeeping before we get to the main event. This week is the paperback release of Extra Life , my book on the doubling of global life expectancy…”
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Why This Fund Manager Paid $15 Million for a Painting Estimated at $200,000
“The Houston-based hedge fund manager Bill Perkins walked into Christie’s on Thursday night, May 12, planning to spend $2 million. An hour or so later, he left…”
May 7, 2022
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Has Arcade Fire Changed, or Have We?
“Arcade Fire performs in London on April 29. Simone Joyner/Getty Images A host of contemporary psychologists, philosophers, and scientists have argued…”
May 4, 2022
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“Photo courtesy of The Illuminator I was chatting with a friend last night about the imminent demise of legal abortion, and she used a word I think is exactly…”
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The Scourge of Sentimentality Politics
“For 50 years, conservatives have worked tirelessly towards the repeal of Roe v. Wade. While calling for “strict constructivism,” “judicial restraint,” and…”
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The Institutionalist’s Dilemma
“Harris & Ewing, photographer. Supreme Court guard. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress,
Sometimes when I am…”
May 3, 2022
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Conservatives don’t want true democracy, and ‘nice’ Republicans are no exception | Thomas Zimmer
“I t is often said that the US is the world’s oldest democracy . While that is not necessarily incorrect, depending on the definition of “democracy,” it tends to…”
May 1, 2022
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Genetics goes to the dogs, finds there’s not much to breed behavior
“What we know vs. what we believe One of the caveats here may be that people who own pure-breed dogs may have expectations regarding their behavior and interpret…”
April 25, 2022
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Supply, Demand, and Southern Ontario’s Housing Market
“As always, here is the TL;DR. TL; DR Starting in 2016, Southern Ontario’s real-estate market caught fire, as population growth skyrocketed, but we saw only…”
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We Have Officially Reached the Too-Much-TV Apocalypse
“Starz This is a preview of our pop culture newsletter The Daily Beast’s Obsessed, written by senior entertainment reporter Kevin Fallon. To receive the full…”
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Ottawa faces blowback for plan to regulate internet
“Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez, pictured here with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at Rideau Hall on July 18, 2018, recently announced a pause on the…”
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“Today, thanks to the escalating threats by the nuclear armed nations of North Korea and the United States, the Bulletin of Atomic scientists set the Doomsday…”
April 22, 2022
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Netflix’s Bad Habits Have Caught Up With It
“This story first ran in Buffering, Vulture’s newsletter about the streaming industry. Head to vulture.com/buffering and subscribe today! Photo-Illustration:…”
April 19, 2022
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Meet the woman behind Libs of TikTok, secretly fueling the right’s outrage machine
“On March 8 , a Twitter account called Libs of TikTok posted a video of a woman teaching sex education to children in Kentucky, calling the woman in the video a…”
April 18, 2022
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Doctors suggest new names for low-grade prostate cancer
“A cancer diagnosis is scary. Some doctors say it’s time to rename low-grade prostate cancer to eliminate the alarming C-word. Cancer cells develop in nearly all…”
April 15, 2022
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What’s Going On With Variant Names Again?
“When coronavirus variants emerged in full force in late 2020, the news suddenly turned into alphanumeric soup. Remember? The U.K. variant, B.1.351, GR/501Y.V3.…”
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Russia warns U.S. to stop arming Ukraine
“Russia this week sent a formal diplomatic note to the United States warning that U.S. and NATO shipments of the “most sensitive” weapons systems to Ukraine were…”
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Elon Musk Demonstrates How Little He Understands About Content Moderation
“Content Moderation from the not-how-any-of-this-works dept Fri, Apr 15th 2022 09:44am – Lots of talk yesterday as Elon Musk made a hostile takeover bid for all…”
April 4, 2022
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Cold War tactical nuclear weapons cast a long shadow over Ukraine
“Reading Time: 6 minutes Russia’s war on Ukraine has brought renewed attention to tactical nuclear weapons, with the White House announcing on March 24 that it…”