June 11, 2022
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The Moral Desolation of the GOP
“Yesterday evening, the leaders of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol opened their public…”
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The Surreal Case of a C.I.A. Hacker’s Revenge
“Nestled west of Washington, D.C., amid the bland northern Virginia suburbs, are generic-looking office parks that hide secret government installations in plain…”
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“The narrative has been incubating for many years, but in recent days we are witnessing some extraordinary progress in treating and monitoring cancer. The…”
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The Google engineer who thinks the company’s AI has come to life
“SAN FRANCISCO — Google engineer Blake Lemoine opened his laptop to the interface for LaMDA, Google’s artificially intelligent chatbot generator, and began to…”
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“According to Microsoft, people have 250% more meetings every day than they did before the pandemic , a statistic that makes sense and deeply sucks. Derek…”
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Ten Ways of Thinking About Endings
“I got a cluster of questions regarding endings and how we know we’re finished with a story, including the following three: Q1. What is your advice for knowing…”
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“We seek personal growth. But when we say “personal growth” we don’t imagine us getting bigger, say gaining weight, or our ego enlarging, our head ballooning, or…”
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A Negative COVID Test Has Never Been So Meaningless
“In early May, 27-year-old Hayley Furmaniuk felt tired and a bit congested, but after rapid-testing negative for the coronavirus two days in a row, she dined…”
June 10, 2022
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“Ideas Hard Wired How evolutionary psychology ended up at the heart of the culture wars Hari Kunzru The first backlash to Sociobiology came from Harvard…”
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Why Are Police So Bad at Their Jobs?
“× John Lamparski/NurPhoto via AP The inaction in the case of the Uvalde school shooter is the most egregious example in a string of police incompetence in…”
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White Christian Nationalism ‘Is a Fundamental Threat to Democracy’
“Photo: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images An ideology is on the march. Traces of it are detectable in a racist massacre in Buffalo ; in Tucker Carlson ’s monologues;…”
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Life’s Preference for Symmetry Is Like ‘A New Law of Nature’
“Trilobites Techniques from computer science may help explain the tendency in biology for structures to repeat themselves. Send any friend a story As a…”
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Secrets of the Book Designer: On Typography, Painting, and Finding That Single Visual Moment
“When it came time for my novel, Planes , to get a cover, I was thrilled to learn that Linda Huang had been assigned to make it. I met Linda in the fall of 2004,…”
June 9, 2022
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Paying extra for premium gas? You should probably stop
“You love your car. You want to treat it well. You certainly don’t want to do anything that would damage it. That’s why you’ve been filling it with premium…”
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The U.S. is under siege by Christian nationalists. It’s time media outlets recognize it.
“If you were at the center of a religious crusade , do you think you’d be able to detect it? I ask because it’s becoming increasingly clear that the United…”
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Christian nationalism on the rise in some GOP campaigns
“PITTSBURGH (AP) — The victory party took on the feel of an evangelical worship service after Doug Mastriano won Pennsylvania’s Republican gubernatorial primary…”
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Logan Ury Says You’re Dating All Wrong
“The Great Read From her Oakland commune, a dating coach has made a big business out of her data-driven approach to modern romance. Send any friend a story As a…”
June 5, 2022
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How we pronounce Uvalde says a lot about the power of language in mixed communities
“President Biden and first lady Jill Biden drive past a memorial site in the town square of Uvalde set up for those killed in the school mass shooting, on their…”
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Opinion | Many Reporters Think Kevin McCarthy Is Dumb. Why Can’t They Say So?
“Magazine Opinion | Many Reporters Think Kevin McCarthy Is Dumb. Why Can’t They Say So? Washington’s last taboo: calling someone stupid. POLITICO illustration by…”
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Opinion: Russia’s war against the world’s food supplies demands a swift response
“Please log in to bookmark this story. Log In Create Free Account There are really two wars being fought by Russia today – one a war of conquest against Ukraine,…”
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#6: Unpacking RRR, Indian Politics, and Cinema • Buttondown
“Warning: This is going to be a long one. If you are not interested in Indian Politics and Film or even RRR, I’m afraid this installment of the newsletter may…”
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“Susan Kirsch in her backyard, just a few hundred feet from the site where Phil Richardson hopes to build a multi-unit housing development. Credit… Aaron…”
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A Cancer Trial’s Unexpected Result: Remission in Every Patient
“The study was small, and experts say it needs to be replicated. But for 18 people with colorectal cancer, the outcome led to “happy tears.” Send any friend a…”
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The First Privately Funded Killer Asteroid Spotter Is Here
“Gigantic asteroids have smashed into the Earth before— RIP dinosaurs —and if we’re not watching out for all those errant space rocks, they could crash into our…”
June 4, 2022
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Factory Built Housing – Marginal REVOLUTION
“Government concerns about great disparities in housing conditions, what are often called housing crises, date to at least the 1920s. These great disparities…”
June 1, 2022
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Netflix slips and Hollywood cheers. Maybe it shouldn’t.
“Season 4 of Netflix’s smash success, Stranger Things , premiered on May 27, 2022. Courtesy of Netflix This story is part of a group of stories called Uncovering…”
May 31, 2022
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The secret of the bulge: A gorgeous partially digested galaxy in the Milky Way’s core
“There are times I just want to post a pretty astronomical image, something that delights the eyes and gives a sense of wonder about the sky. The problem with…”
May 28, 2022
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In “Russian Doll,” Natasha Lyonne Barrels Into the Past
“On a November evening outside a sound-editing studio in Chelsea, Natasha Lyonne was sipping a can of Red Bull Sugar-Free and puffing on a Marlboro Light 72, her…”
May 27, 2022
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You Are Going to Get COVID Again … And Again … And Again
“Two and a half years and billions of estimated infections into this pandemic, SARS-CoV-2’s visit has clearly turned into a permanent stay. Experts knew from…”
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Inside the fight over the fastest-growing sport: Pickleball – Sports Illustrated
“In February 2021 an unholy tremor shook the seemingly carefree sport of pickleball: news that a second hall of fame was in the planning stages. The…”