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The Cancer-Drug Shortage Is DifferentFourteen crucial chemotherapies are currently in shortage. Why does this keep happening? 2023-06-26 The Atlantic Ed Yong ($) 2,000 words Rated 2023-06-28
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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. 2023-05-23 Works in Progress 8,000 words Rated 2023-06-28
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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 2023-06-26
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What You Don’t Understand About E-Bikes Until You Ride OneMine changed my life. One could change yours, too. #Cars #Retail #Transportation #Urban Planning 2023-06-18 Slate Dan Kois 3,000 words Rated 2023-06-26
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California will begin backing intentional burns to control wildfireMillions of dollars have been set aside to encourage controlled burns that can help defang forest fires. #Agriculture 2023-06-22 Freethink Media B. David Zarley 1,000 words Rated 2023-06-23
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One Free Trick: How to Use the Writing Skills You Have to Learn the Ones You Don’tWhen I went to the Viable Paradise writer’s workshop back in the distant dim year of 2013, the inestimable Elizabeth Bear, along with various other people who are cleverer than me, explained to me … 2019-03-25 Tor.com https://www.tor.com/author/arkady-martine/ 3,000 words Rated 2023-06-23
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Regulating AI in the practice of lawWhat's going to happen, and what should we do about it? 2023-06-11 Adam's Legal Newsletter Adam Unikowsky 5,000 words Rated 2023-06-21
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San Francisco Police Traffic EnforcementAn analysis of SFPD moving violation citations in San Francisco transpomaps.org 3,000 words Rated 2023-06-20
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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 2023-04-20 CBS News Ben Tracy 500 words Rated 2023-06-20
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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 2023-06-20
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Cancer drug shortages should have patients rioting in the streetsCisplatin and carboplatin are the backbone for lung cancer regimens because they work. And now they are largely unavailable. #Cancer 2023-06-19 STAT Kristen Rice 1,000 words Rated 2023-06-20 |
The Fight for Queer Nightlife in an Era of Political ViolenceAmid rampant anti-trans legislation and attacks on LGBTQ+ communities, venue owners and performers are protecting the sanctity of their spaces—and their lives. #LGBTQ+ 2023-06-13 Pitchfork Isabelia Herrera 3,000 words Rated 2023-06-20
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Burying Indiana JonesChristopher Heaney on “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” and the titular character’s impact on the public’s perception of what it means to be an archeologist. #Movies 2023-06-18 The New Yorker Christopher Heaney 2,000 words Rated 2023-06-20
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Moneyball Broke BaseballBut now the whiz kids who nearly ruined the national pastime have returned to save it. #New York 2023-06-06 The Atlantic Mark Leibovich ($) 8,000 words Rated 2023-06-20
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Chad Harbach's The Art of Fielding: Baseball and bliss at a small liberal arts college.The dominant emotion in The Art of Fielding—the much-anticipated, because expensively acquired, first novel by Chad Harbach, a founding editor of the... 2011-09-05 Slate Judith Shulevitz 2,000 words Rated 2023-06-19
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The Instant Pot Failed Because It Was a Good ProductA one-hit wonder is never enough. #United States 2023-06-14 The Atlantic Amanda Mull ($) 1,000 words Rated 2023-06-17
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Laundry Pods Are Bad. Laundry Sheets Aren’t Any Better.Laundry and dishwasher pods are encased in toxic plastic. Save money and go easier on the planet with these sustainable laundry tips. #Sustainability 2023-06-14 Outside Online Kristin Hostetter 2,000 words Rated 2023-06-14
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Rewriting the Ruby parserAt Shopify, we have spent the last year writing a new Ruby parser, which we’ve called YARP (Yet Another Ruby Parser). As of the date of this post, YARP can parse a semantically equivalent syntax tree to Ruby 3.3 on every Ruby file in Shopify’s main codebase, GitHub’s main codebase, CRuby, and the 100 most popular gems downloaded from rubygems.org. We recently got approval to merge this work into CRuby, and are very excited to share our work with the community. This post will take you through... 2023-06-12 Rails at Scale 5,000 words Rated 2023-06-13
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Lessons From a Renters’ UtopiaWorldwide, housing has become a nightmare of expense and speculation. What did Vienna do right? #Housing #Real Estate 2023-05-23 The New York Times Francesca Mari, Luca Locatelli ($) 7,000 words Rated 2023-06-13
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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 2023-06-12 NPR Michaeleen Doucleff 3,000 words Rated 2023-06-13
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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. 2023-06-12 BBC Science Focus Magazine Paul Byrne 2,000 words Rated 2023-06-13
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Four supply chain experts on the challenges of manufacturing in the US—and the tactics to turn to insteadThe daily email newsletter covering the latest news from Wall St. to Silicon Valley. Informative, witty, and everything you need to start your day. 2022-08-16 Morning Brew Erin Cabrey, Maeve Allsup 1,000 words Rated 2023-06-12
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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 2023-06-10 San Francisco Chronicle Gregory Thomas 1,000 words Rated 2023-06-10
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The Stupidity of "Buy American"The case against economic protectionism 2011-11-03 Reason Magazine John Stossel 1,000 words Rated 2023-06-10
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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 2023-04-09 The New Yorker Helen Rosner 7,000 words Rated 2023-06-09
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Made in AmericaIn its special report #Buy American #Cars #Money Consumer Reports 2,000 words Rated 2023-06-08
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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 2023-06-08
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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... 2023-06-07 Nature Mankowitz, Daniel J., Michi, Andrea, Zhernov, Anton, Gelmi, Marco, ... 10,000 words Rated 2023-06-08
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Vox and the Undertow of Corporate DemocratsToday on TAP: Dylan Matthews’s screed attacking Biden’s industrial policies got an assist from former Treasury official Kimberly Clausing. #Buy American #China #Joe Biden #Media #Politics 2023-05-10 The American Prospect Robert Kuttner 1,000 words Rated 2023-06-08 |
What Does ‘Buying American’ Even Mean?In a globalized economy, the definition of “buying American” is becoming quite cloudy—and so are the consequences of policies designed to encourage it. #Buy American 2019-07-03 The New York Times Tim Heffernan 2,000 words Rated 2023-06-08 |
How ‘Buy American’ provisions hurt AmericaThese types of rules were costly in the 20th century, but they are self-evidently backwards in the 21st. #Buy American 2023-06-06 The Hill Scott Wallsten, opinion contributor 2,000 words Rated 2023-06-08
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They Fled San Francisco. The A.I. Boom Pulled Them Back.Tech entrepreneurs who left the Bay Area during the pandemic say they can’t afford to miss out on the funding, hackathons and networking of the artificial intelligence frenzy. #Artificial Intelligence #San Francisco 2023-06-07 The New York Times Erin Griffith ($) 2,000 words Rated 2023-06-07
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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 2023-06-07
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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 2022-02-19 Alpha Rail 1,000 words Rated 2023-06-04
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The Talk: Accused of PlagiarismIn an excerpt from his forthcoming book, “The Talk,” Darrin Bell illustrates a conversation with a professor at U.C. Berkeley who accused him, without evidence, of plagiarism. #College 2023-06-03 The New Yorker Darrin Bell 200 words Rated 2023-06-04
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Things I Won't Work With: HexanitrohexaazaisowurtzitaneScience Advances 1,000 words Rated 2023-06-04
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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. 2023-05-18 Brookings Connor Raso 2,000 words Rated 2023-06-04
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It Will Cost Up to $21.5 Billion to Clean Up California’s Oil Sites. The Industry Won’t Make Enough Money to Pay for It.An expert used California regulators’ methodology to estimate the cost of cleaning up the state’s onshore oil and gas industry. The study found that cleanup costs will be triple the industry’s projected profits. 2023-05-18 ProPublica Mark Olalde 2,000 words Rated 2023-06-04
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Judge rules Wyoming corner crossers did not trespassThe hunters who stepped over the corner of a Carbon County ranch did no damage to private property. hcn.org 2,000 words Rated 2023-06-03
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When the Neighbors Don’t Share Your Vision (and That Vision Involves ‘Transformers’ Statues)A professor decorated a sidewalk in Georgetown with 10-foot sculptures of Bumblebee and Optimus Prime. The well-heeled locals were not pleased. #Housing #Real Estate #Urban Planning 2023-06-01 The New York Times Noreen Malone ($) 4,000 words Rated 2023-06-02 |
The Last Days of Berlin's Gas StreetlampsLooking at the German city in a different light. #City #Climate Change #Design #History #Politics 2023-06-01 Atlas Obscura Alex Rennie 2,000 words Rated 2023-06-02
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Undoing bikeshare’s original sinBikeshare has been a godsend. Why not subsidize it? 2023-04-18 Fast Company Aimee Rawlins 3,000 words Rated 2023-05-31
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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 2023-05-30 The New York Times Laila Lalami ($) 3,000 words Rated 2023-05-30
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How to Hire a Pop Star for Your Private PartyFor the very rich, even the world’s biggest performers—Beyoncé, Drake, Jennifer Lopez, Andrea Bocelli—are available, at a price, Evan Osnos writes. 2023-05-29 The New Yorker Evan Osnos 8,000 words Rated 2023-05-30
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US elections 2024: Who is the Republican contender Ron DeSantis?A look at rise of Florida governor, who is seen as Trump’s most serious challenger for party’s presidential nomination. #Donald Trump #Elections #Government #Joe Biden #United States 2023-05-24 Al Jazeera Ali Harb 2,000 words Rated 2023-05-29
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Watching Paint DryThe unexpectedly interesting story of car coatings and what they tell us about the modern world 2023-02-03 Material World Ed Conway 3,000 words Rated 2023-05-27
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Supreme Court Limits E.P.A.’s Power to Address Water PollutionThe justices ruled that discharges into some wetlands are not covered by the Clean Water Act. #Water 2023-05-25 The New York Times Adam Liptak ($) 1,000 words Rated 2023-05-25
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Microbes take the ‘forever’ out of ‘forever chemicals’Nature - Bacteria that snip fluorine–carbon bonds can degrade certain kinds of PFAS, a class of environmental pollutant. 2023-05-24 Nature 500 words Rated 2023-05-24
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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. 2023-02-15 Phys.org Science X 1,000 words Rated 2023-05-24
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How Tokyo Became an Anti-Car ParadiseThe world’s biggest, most functional city might also be the most pedestrian-friendly. That’s not a coincidence. 2023-04-11 Heatmap News Daniel Knowles 5,000 words Rated 2023-05-23
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