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The End of the Magic World’s 50-Year GrudgeIn 1973, Uri Geller claimed to bend metal with his mind on live television. Skeptics couldn’t beat him. Now they’ve joined him. #Artificial Intelligence #Britain #Celebrity #Israel #Magic 2023-7-8 2:00am The New York Times David Segal ($) 4,000 words Rated 2023-7-21 10:37am
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An invitation to a secret societyOr: why you should be a lizard 2023-7-20 8:03am Experimental History Adam Mastroianni 3,000 words Rated 2023-7-20 7:08pm
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Wikipedia’s Moment of TruthCan the online encyclopedia help teach A.I. chatbots to get their facts right — without destroying itself in the process? #Artificial Intelligence #Google #Reddit 2023-7-18 2:00am The New York Times Jon Gertner ($) 7,000 words Rated 2023-7-20 6:40pm
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Hearing aids may cut risk of cognitive decline by nearly halfA large study showed that older adults with a higher risk of dementia may be able to reduce their cognitive decline risk by almost 50 percent by using hearing aids. #Aging #Hearing aids 2023-7-19 3:22pm The Washington Post Lindsey Bever ($) 1,000 words Rated 2023-7-20 6:36am
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The hidden force that shapes everything around us: ParkingA Q&A with Henry Grabar, author of “Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World.” #Politics #Transportation #Urban Planning 2023-5-9 4:30am Vox Marin Cogan 3,000 words Rated 2023-7-17 2:20pm
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A Third of North America’s Birds Have VanishedAt first Adam Smith couldn’t believe his calculations. Then it sank in. 2023-6-30 11:33am Nautilus Anders Gyllenhaal 1,000 words Rated 2023-7-15 9:12pm
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On Becoming a VP of Engineering, Part 1: The Path to VPPeople rarely talk about how they made it into the role of VP of Engineering. Join Emily as she opens up about the process - good and bad. #Culture 2023-7-12 9:00am Honeycomb Emily Nakashima 3,000 words Rated 2023-7-14 9:56pm
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S.F. says incidents by Cruise, Waymo driverless taxis are ‘skyrocketing.’ What is the city’s plan?San Francisco officials say driverless taxi incidents by Cruise, Waymo are 'skyrocketing.' What is the city's plan to address the growing problem? #California #New York Times #Twitter #Uber 2023-7-14 4:00am San Francisco Chronicle Ricardo Cano 1,000 words Rated 2023-7-14 7:06pm
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Firing of gay Catholic school teacher could test latest Supreme Court rulingA substitute drama teacher in North Carolina sued after being fired for marrying his partner; the school says such discrimination is allowed. 2023-7-11 7:30am The Washington Post Rachel Weiner ($) 200 words Rated 2023-7-13 9:00pm
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Anchor Brewing Was San Francisco | DefectorAnchor Brewing was a cockroach. The San Francisco brewery survived the great earthquake of 1906, the subsequent fire that destroyed the city, its owner being run over by a cable car right after the fire, World War I, the Volstead Act, World War II, a series of midcentury closures and re-openings, and 127 years of ... 2023-7-12 1:11pm defector.com 2,000 words Rated 2023-7-12 10:44pm
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Why Match School And Student Rank?... 2023-7-10 10:39pm Astral Codex Ten Scott Alexander 45,000 words Rated 2023-7-12 5:04pm
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Is It Hot Enough Yet for Politicians to Take Real Action?Bill McKibben writes on the recent temperature records set amid a global heat wave, on a global cascade of climate-change-related floods and disasters, and the lack of political will in Canada and the U.S. to take on the needed confrontation of oil and gas interests. #Canada #Climate Change #Global Warming #Wildfire 2023-7-11 11:18am The New Yorker Bill McKibben 2,000 words Rated 2023-7-12 9:00am
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A Complete Taxonomy of Internet Chumby John MahoneyThis is a bucket of chum. Chum is decomposing fish matter that elicits a purely neurological brain stem response in its target consumer: larger fish, like sharks. It signals that they should let go, deploy their nictitating ... The Awl 1,000 words Rated 2023-7-12 8:07am
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After “Barbie,” Mattel Is Raiding Its Entire ToyboxIn an era when “pre-awareness” rules Hollywood, the company is ginning up plots for everything from Hot Wheels to UNO, Alex Barasch writes. 2023-7-2 3:00am The New Yorker Alex Barasch 5,000 words Rated 2023-7-12 8:01am
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Felt for Advocacy Groups: Mapping Traffic Violence in OaklandBryan Culbertson and Kuan Butts, two activists working on Traffic Violence Rapid Response, leverage Felt maps to advocate for safer streets in Oakland. felt.com 1,000 words Rated 2023-7-11 9:56am
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Jawboning against SpeechGovernment officials use informal pressure — bullying, threatening, and cajoling — to sway the decisions of private platforms and limit the publication of disfavored speech. The use of this informal pressure, known as jawboning, is growing. 2022-9-12 12:00am Cato Institute 15,000 words Rated 2023-7-10 7:17pm
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Analysis | Do blue-state taxes really subsidize red-state benefits?In honor of our first anniversary, we turn our powers of analysis on you, the reader, to identify -- and answer! -- the question you are most eager to ask. 2023-7-7 2:54am The Washington Post Andrew Van Dam, Linda Chong ($) 2,000 words Rated 2023-7-10 7:15pm
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Jigar Shah’s big idea for getting rooftop solar and smart appliances to low-income AmericansHow the DOE could marshal its loan guarantees to decarbonize the grid and boost energy equity in one fell swoop. #Renewable energy 2021-11-23 12:00am Canary Media 3,000 words Rated 2023-7-6 6:42pm
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Bloc Party's Kele Okereke On Being Gay and Black in the Dance and Rock WorldsRated 2023-7-6 6:09pm
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The Secret Gay History of Indie RockIs it truly possible to queer one of the straightest genres of music? From the closeted to the overexposed, this is a lineage of queer indie rock icons. #LGBTQ+ 2023-7-5 8:58am Pitchfork Emma Madden 4,000 words Rated 2023-7-6 5:59pm
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The heat is making squirrels 'sploot' — a goofy act that signals something seriousAs climate change is making extreme heat events more common, these bright-eyed and bushy-tailed critters are "splooting" to cope. 2023-6-29 12:49pm NPR Kai McNamee 1,000 words Rated 2023-7-6 5:22pm
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Reclaiming Real American PatriotismThis Fourth of July, let’s rescue our love of country from those who have hijacked it. #New Hampshire #New York #West Virginia 2023-7-4 4:00am The Atlantic Tom Nichols ($) 500 words Rated 2023-7-5 7:48am
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Vaginal Seeding Supports Baby Microbiome, Study ShowsRated 2023-7-4 5:16pm
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Why Britain doesn’t buildThe history of attempts to reform planning in Britain is proof that political willpower is not enough: you need to be smart, not just brave. 2023-5-23 5:36am Works in Progress 8,000 words Rated 2023-6-27 8:58pm
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Figure 4. Estimated U.S. Deer Population, 1450 to 2016 Year 2000 to...Download scientific diagram | Estimated U.S. Deer Population, 1450 to 2016 Year 2000 to 2016 estimated from combined sources from state agencies. Year 1450 to 1999 white-tailed based on VerCauteren (2003) and McCabe & McCabe (1984). Year 1911 to 1999 mule deer, black-tailed, and other from state population and harvest data. Year 1450 to 1910 mule deer, black-tailed, and other from historical sources. from publication: SEARCHING THE INTERNET TO ESTIMATE DEER POPULATION TRENDS IN THE U.S.,... ResearchGate 2,000 words Rated 2023-6-25 8:47pm
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San Francisco Police Traffic EnforcementAn analysis of SFPD moving violation citations in San Francisco transpomaps.org 3,000 words Rated 2023-6-20 9:49am
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Saudi company draws unlimited Arizona ground water to grow alfalfa amid droughtForeign-owned farms are shipping the crop to Saudi Arabia, where it's illegal to grow because it takes too much water. #Arizona #Saudi Arabia 2023-4-20 7:39am CBS News Ben Tracy 500 words Rated 2023-6-20 7:16am
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Beyond the Yuck Factor: Cities Turn to ‘Extreme’ Water RecyclingSan Francisco is at the forefront of a movement to recycle wastewater from commercial buildings, homes, and neighborhoods and use it for toilets and landscaping. This decentralized approach, proponents say, will drive down demand in an era of increasing water scarcity. Yale E360 3,000 words Rated 2023-6-20 7:12am
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Moneyball Broke BaseballBut now the whiz kids who nearly ruined the national pastime have returned to save it. #New York 2023-6-6 4:00am The Atlantic Mark Leibovich ($) 8,000 words Rated 2023-6-19 11:34pm
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The Instant Pot Failed Because It Was a Good ProductA one-hit wonder is never enough. #United States 2023-6-14 3:30pm The Atlantic Amanda Mull ($) 1,000 words Rated 2023-6-16 10:21pm
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Laundry Pods Are Bad. Laundry Sheets Aren’t Any Better.Laundry and dishwasher pods are encased in toxic plastic. Save money and go easier on the planet with these sustainable laundry tips. #Sustainability 2023-6-14 4:42am Outside Online Kristin Hostetter 2,000 words Rated 2023-6-14 5:56am
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Rewriting the Ruby parserAt Shopify, we have spent the last year writing a new Ruby parser, which we’ve called YARP (Yet Another Ruby Parser). As of the date of this post, YARP can parse a semantically equivalent syntax tree to Ruby 3.3 on every Ruby file in Shopify’s main codebase, GitHub’s main codebase, CRuby, and the 100 most popular gems downloaded from rubygems.org. We recently got approval to merge this work into CRuby, and are very excited to share our work with the community. This post will take you through... 2023-6-11 5:00pm Rails at Scale 5,000 words Rated 2023-6-13 4:37pm
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Lessons From a Renters’ UtopiaWorldwide, housing has become a nightmare of expense and speculation. What did Vienna do right? #Housing #Real Estate 2023-5-23 1:20am The New York Times Francesca Mari, Luca Locatelli ($) 7,000 words Rated 2023-6-13 11:07am
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'Anti-dopamine parenting' can curb a kid's craving for screens or sweetsDopamine is a part of our brain's survival mechanism. It is also part of why sugary foods and social media hook kids. The latest neuroscience can help parents help their kids manage behavior. #Dopamine #Parenting 2023-6-12 2:00am NPR Michaeleen Doucleff 3,000 words Rated 2023-6-13 10:59am
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Pluto should be our ninth planet. A planetary scientist explains whyAstronomers believe they’re closing in on the so-called Planet Nine, but planetary scientist Paul Byrne argues our official definition of what is and isn’t a planet is in need of a long-overdue shake up. 2023-6-11 11:40pm BBC Science Focus Magazine Paul Byrne 2,000 words Rated 2023-6-13 10:52am
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Shot at, electrocuted, exhausted, exhilarated: What it’s like to kayak from Tulare Lake to San Francisco BayWith torrents of snowmelt flowing through California, two men kayaked an improbable 200-mile route from Tulare Lake to San Francisco Bay. #Los Angeles 2023-6-10 4:00am San Francisco Chronicle Gregory Thomas 1,000 words Rated 2023-6-10 8:46am
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Harvey Karp Knows How to Make Babies HappyThe pediatrician and best-selling author on the perils of excessive individualism, the moralization of baby sleep, and why when it comes to newborns he’s “a little bit like a priest.” #Babies #Interview #Parenting 2023-4-9 12:25pm The New Yorker Helen Rosner 7,000 words Rated 2023-6-9 4:54pm
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Nanoplastic Ingestion Causes Neurological DeficitsSmall plastic particulates can induce inflammatory responses in the gut and brain, but removing them reverses this damage. #Nanoplastics The Scientist Magazine 1,000 words Rated 2023-6-8 7:40am
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Faster sorting algorithms discovered using deep reinforcement learningFundamental algorithms such as sorting or hashing are used trillions of times on any given day1. As demand for computation grows, it has become critical for these algorithms to be as performant as possible. Whereas remarkable progress has been achieved in the past2, making further improvements on the efficiency of these routines has proved challenging for both human scientists and computational approaches. Here we show how artificial intelligence can go beyond the current state of the art by... 2023-6-7 12:00am Nature Mankowitz, Daniel J., Michi, Andrea, Zhernov, Anton, Gelmi, Marco, ... 10,000 words Rated 2023-6-7 11:48pm
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The growing pains of database architectureHow the Figma infrastructure team reduced potential instability by scaling to multiple databases Figma 2,000 words Rated 2023-6-7 5:13am
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Why do railway tracks have crushed stones alongside them?Track ballast is the name for the crushed stones next to railway tracks. They are used by Railway Track Designers for numerous reasons 2022-2-18 7:39pm Alpha Rail 1,000 words Rated 2023-6-4 7:27am
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Things I Won't Work With: HexanitrohexaazaisowurtzitaneScience Advances 1,000 words Rated 2023-6-4 7:19am
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The Biden administration’s recent regulatory review and analysis changesRaso argues the Biden administration's recent regulatory review and analysis changes have a basis in recent academic research and the rulemaking process would be updated to make better use of recent technological developments. 2023-5-18 5:50am Brookings Connor Raso 2,000 words Rated 2023-6-4 7:15am
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It Will Cost Up to $21.5 Billion to Clean Up California’s Oil Sites. The Industry Won’t Make Enough Money to Pay for It.An expert used California regulators’ methodology to estimate the cost of cleaning up the state’s onshore oil and gas industry. The study found that cleanup costs will be triple the industry’s projected profits. 2023-5-18 3:00am ProPublica Mark Olalde 2,000 words Rated 2023-6-3 9:02pm
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The Last Days of Berlin's Gas StreetlampsLooking at the German city in a different light. #City #Climate Change #Design #History #Politics 2023-6-1 7:00am Atlas Obscura Alex Rennie 2,000 words Rated 2023-6-1 11:45pm
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California Builds the Future, for Good and Bad. What’s Next?From reparations to tax revolts, the Golden State tries out new ideas all the time. What roads will its latest experiments send us down? #Artificial Intelligence #California #Immigration #Politics 2023-5-30 1:55am The New York Times Laila Lalami ($) 3,000 words Rated 2023-5-30 9:15am
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How to Hire a Pop Star for Your Private PartyFor the very rich, even the world’s biggest performers—Beyoncé, Drake, Jennifer Lopez, Andrea Bocelli—are available, at a price, Evan Osnos writes. 2023-5-29 3:00am The New Yorker Evan Osnos 8,000 words Rated 2023-5-30 8:55am
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US elections 2024: Who is the Republican contender Ron DeSantis?A look at rise of Florida governor, who is seen as Trump’s most serious challenger for party’s presidential nomination. #Donald Trump #Elections #Government #Joe Biden #United States 2023-5-24 2:09pm Al Jazeera Ali Harb 2,000 words Rated 2023-5-29 11:56am
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Watching Paint DryThe unexpectedly interesting story of car coatings and what they tell us about the modern world 2023-2-3 5:05am Material World Ed Conway 3,000 words Rated 2023-5-27 12:36pm
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Microbes may play a key role in unleashing 'forever chemicals' from recycled-waste fertilizer"Forever chemicals" are everywhere—water, soil, crops, animals, the blood of 97% of Americans—researchers from Drexel University's College of Engineering are trying to figure out how they got there. Their recent findings suggest that the microbes that help break down biodegradable materials and other waste are likely complicit in the release of the notorious per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) into the environment. 2023-2-15 12:09pm Phys.org Science X 1,000 words Rated 2023-5-24 10:41am
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