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…”
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Internet communities are battling over pixels
“Since last Friday, millions of Reddit users have banded together to collectively generate a massive, collaborative piece of artwork that has become a viral…”
March 29, 2022
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From Family Trees to 23andMe, and Back Again
“Nonfiction Maud Newton’s “Ancestor Trouble” is a sweeping genealogical investigation that becomes an investigation of genealogy itself. Send any friend a story…”
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Wet Leg, the Indie-Rock Duo, Blew Up Fast. They Know It’s Weird.
“The group’s droll single “Chaise Longue” racked up playlist spots and star endorsements. Its debut album has more springy bass lines, jabbing guitars and sharp,…”
March 28, 2022
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On the Insanity of Being a Scrabble Enthusiast
“My own obsession with Scrabble began in the summer of 2009 in the sweltering heat of Austin, Texas, where I was a graduate student studying economics. As a kid,…”
March 27, 2022
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Why I do not expect a civil war in America (and what does worry me) – Chris Blattman
“It began a few years ago, when prominent democracy rating organizations started downgrading the United States, putting its institutions on par with Panama,…”
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No, America is not on the cusp of a civil war | Musa al-Gharbi
“A ccording to a number of polls and surveys , significant majorities of Republican-aligned voters seem to believe the big lie that Trump was the rightful winner…”
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Heritage out of Control: Disturbing Heritage – Allegra Lab
“Disturbing Heritage The past is present through its lasting material forms, in open and hidden ways, marked and unmarked. Whether cherished, taken for granted…”
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Julia Strand – Book Carver – Twin Cities PBS
“Julia Strand – Book Carver Download Writing/Essay/Journal Julia Strand carves old reference books into sculptures to show the information in a new way. Pick a…”
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“TOAST of the town I love the hand-technique and the personal aspect of work in which you can see the artist’s hand. I don’t need or want perfection. I want to…”
March 26, 2022
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“IN EARLY 2014, my friend Michael was traveling in Southern California when he posted a picture on Facebook of his friend’s cat with its head in the toilet bowl,…”
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Behind the Scenes of Severance’s ‘Very Creepy’ Office Dance Party
“Photo: Apple TV+ “Just let them dance. We want to see them dance!” Tramell Tillman is quoting the crew members of Severance , Apple TV+’s critically acclaimed…”
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“Okay this is embarrassing: The news I shared the other day, about the sharing of fake news, was fake. That news—which, again, let’s be clear, was fake—concerned…”
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We Live in a Mattress Apocalypse
“There are too many fucking mattresses in the world. In fact, there are at least 175 different online mattress companies , most of whose products are made with…”
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Solutions That Create Problems
“Yesterday I had a quasi-viral tweet about how I cannot for the life of me find an explanation as to why Web3 and the blockchain are so inevitably the future.…”
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Neural Noise Shows the Uncertainty of Our Memories
“In the moment between reading a phone number and punching it into your phone, you may find that the digits have mysteriously gone astray — even if you’ve seared…”
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A Deepening Crisis Forces Physicists to Rethink the Structure of Nature’s Laws | Quanta Magazine
“particle physics A Deepening Crisis Forces Physicists to Rethink the Structure of Nature’s Laws March 1, 2022 For three decades, researchers hunted in vain for…”
March 25, 2022
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The West Should Stop Doing Global Kleptocrats So Many Favors
“All of us have in our mind a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like. There is a bad man at the top. He controls the police. The police threaten…”
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The Purges in Putin’s Shrinking Inner Circle
“I recently spoke by phone with Andrei Soldatov, an investigative journalist and an expert on the Russian state’s intelligence apparatus. Currently in London,…”
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The Uneasy Afterlife of “A Confederacy of Dunces”
“John Kennedy Toole, one of the most famous “failures” in the history of American literature, spent most of his life being good at things. The prized only child…”
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The strongest case for urban density isn’t aesthetics, it’s math
“Conversation about land use and building in cities often turns to questions of aesthetics or personal preferences. You find impassioned advocates of various…”
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“Better Living Through Baugruppen: a new approach to affordable urban living Housing prices in the US are completely out of balance . Affordable housing is…”
March 24, 2022
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This Isn’t History’s Most Dangerous Moment. Yet.
“W orld War III , this time with multiple nuclear-armed states. That’s the nightmare scenario haunting many people as Russia’s horrific war on Ukraine…”
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Opinion | How Covid Stole Our Time and How We Can Get It Back
“Guest Essay How Covid Stole Our Time and How We Can Get It Back Feb. 25, 2022 Credit… Mikel Jaso Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift…”
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How Francis Ford Coppola Taught Me to Dress Like a Big Guy
“Personal style is a difficult thing to explain; it takes a lot of trial and error to discover, and inspiration often comes in the least likely places. For me,…”