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We’ve Had a Cheaper, More Potent Ozempic Alternative for Decades

New weight-loss drugs are getting all the hype, but bariatric surgery is still the “gold standard” for treating obesity. #Individual People #Obesity #Surgery

2023-04-25T14:21:00-0700 The Atlantic Yasmin Tayag ($) 2,000 words

Rated 2023-05-09T07:29:05-0700

9 Ways to Imagine Jeff Bezos’ Wealth (Published 2022)

A fortune of $172 billion is almost impossible to fathom. For the magazine’s Money Issue, the artist Mona Chalabi came up with some extremely original comparisons.

2022-04-07T06:21:21-0700 The New York Times Mona Chalabi ($) 1,000 words

Rated 2023-05-08T21:04:56-0700

A few words on Ruby's type annotations state

...that were written in a military training camp and accidentally grew to 5k words

zverok.space 5,000 words

Rated 2023-05-05T14:45:30-0700

Why has nuclear power been a flop?

Nuclear is expensive, but it should be cheap #Nuclear power

2021-04-16T02:18:28-0700 The Roots of Progress 5,000 words

Rated 2023-05-05T14:06:16-0700

Book Review: From Oversight To Overkill

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2023-04-11T17:08:25-0700 Astral Codex Ten Scott Alexander 60,000 words

Rated 2023-05-05T13:38:34-0700

Income and emotional well-being: A conflict resolved

Do larger incomes make people happier? Two authors of the present paper have published contradictory answers. Using dichotomous questions about the...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 5,000 words

Rated 2023-05-04T23:56:49-0700

United States of America

This is Earth.Org's profile of the climate change vulnerabilities, updated emissions pledges and environmental policies by sector of the United States.

Earth.Org 2,000 words

Rated 2023-05-04T23:27:36-0700

Marketing Malpractice: The Cause and the Cure

Marketing executives focus too much on ever-narrower demographic segments and ever-more-trivial product extensions. They should find out, instead, what jobs consumers need to get done. Those jobs will point the way to purposeful products—and genuine innovation.

2005-11-30T21:00:00-0800 Harvard Business Review 6,000 words

Rated 2023-05-03T16:35:38-0700

When Private Equity Firms Bankrupt Their Own Companies

Private equity firms can succeed when their companies, customers, and employees fail. It’s a broken system.

2023-05-01T04:00:00-0700 The Atlantic Brendan Ballou ($) 3,000 words

Rated 2023-05-02T23:35:44-0700

Would you live next to co-workers for the right price? This company is betting yes

Businesses like Cook Medical in Indiana say the housing shortage makes it harder to recruit and keep middle-income workers. Now, more companies are building places for employees to rent or even buy.

2023-05-02T02:20:10-0700 NPR Jennifer Ludden, Marisa Peñaloza 2,000 words

Rated 2023-05-02T16:13:05-0700

The Future of Fertility

Emily Witt on the biotech startups seeking to change human reproduction.

2023-04-17T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker Emily Witt 6,000 words

Rated 2023-05-02T10:22:02-0700

Big Tech Sees Like a State

Plus! Pirate’s Treasure, Redux; Takedowns; Antitrust and Laggy Beliefs; Money, The High-Order Bit; More...

2020-11-06T08:32:26-0800 The Diff Byrne Hobart 4,000 words

Rated 2023-05-01T22:45:09-0700

How Much Can Duolingo Teach Us?

Carina Chocano on the company’s founder, Luis von Ahn, who believes that artificial intelligence is going to make computers better teachers than humans.

2023-04-17T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker Carina Chocano 6,000 words

Rated 2023-04-30T22:45:37-0700

It's Not Intelligent If It Always Halts: A Critical Perspective on Current Approaches to AGI

Intelligence requires the ability to explore "trains of thought" that are potentially never-ending. Most current approaches fail at this.

2023-04-05T21:06:49-0700 Life Is Computation 4,000 words

Rated 2023-04-30T22:09:01-0700

Small modular reactors produce high levels of nuclear waste

Small modular reactors, long touted as the future of nuclear energy, will actually generate more radioactive waste than conventional nuclear power plants, according to research from Stanford and the University of British Columbia. #Climate Change #Infrastructure

2022-05-30T12:00:11-0700 Stanford News Stanford University 1,000 words

Rated 2023-04-30T08:05:21-0700

The Internet Is Just Investment Banking Now

The internet has always financialized our lives. Web3 just makes that explicit.

2022-02-04T08:19:58-0800 The Atlantic Ian Bogost ($) 6,000 words

Rated 2023-04-30T07:21:13-0700

The Real Difference Between European and American Butter

epicurious

Rated 2023-04-28T14:38:16-0700

Wrong door, wrong driveway: How US got to shoot first, ask later

The Christian Science Monitor

Rated 2023-04-28T07:44:35-0700

The Endless Battle to Remove Girls Do Porn Videos From Pornhub

vice.com

Rated 2023-04-26T23:07:40-0700

Behind Pornhub’s decade-old moderation problems

The Verge

Rated 2023-04-26T22:56:57-0700

We Need To Decommodify Mental Health Care

noemamag.com

Rated 2023-04-26T22:22:32-0700

The Unbelievable Zombie Comeback of Analog Computing

WIRED

Rated 2023-04-26T07:28:14-0700

The Battle for the Soul of Buy Nothing

WIRED

Rated 2023-04-26T00:03:53-0700

Alcohol healthy: the flip-flop on whether it's good for you is to understand—if you know who's behind it.

Slate

Rated 2023-04-25T23:05:45-0700

How Would You Run a 10,000-Year Endowment?

The Diff

Rated 2023-04-24T23:18:09-0700

Kesha: Animal Album Review

Pitchfork

Rated 2023-04-24T22:44:45-0700

Fox News Is Bigger Than Any Host

The Atlantic

Rated 2023-04-24T22:16:52-0700

Dril Is Everyone. More Specifically, He’s a Guy Named Paul.

The Ringer

Rated 2023-04-24T09:49:19-0700

#ReceptioGate and the (absolute) state of academia | Charlotte Gauthier | The Critic Magazine

thecritic.co.uk

Rated 2023-04-23T07:27:58-0700

Explosions Are Great, Actually. - by areoform - 1517 Fund

1517.substack.com

Rated 2023-04-22T15:36:20-0700

The Commission for Stopping Further Improvements

The Roots of Progress

Rated 2023-04-21T16:42:40-0700

Long accused of Native American misappropriation, Boy Scouts ask if it’s time to change

NBC News

Rated 2023-04-20T18:18:58-0700

The internet wants to be fragmented - by Noah Smith

noahpinion.substack.com

Rated 2023-04-20T18:16:38-0700

The Future of Search Is Boutique

Future

Rated 2023-04-20T15:28:40-0700

90% of My Skills Are Now Worth $0 - by Kent Beck

tidyfirst.substack.com

Rated 2023-04-19T09:37:46-0700

MillerKnoll CEO Andi Owen blasted for 'leave pity city' leaked video

NPR

Rated 2023-04-19T07:51:11-0700

I Really Didn’t Want to Go, by Lauren Oyler

Harper's Magazine

Rated 2023-04-18T14:19:45-0700

Tim Cook on Shaping the Future of Apple

GQ

Rated 2023-04-17T13:26:16-0700

Richard Montañez didn't actually invent Flamin' Hot Cheetos

Los Angeles Times

Rated 2023-04-17T10:29:47-0700

Do We Need to Abolish Child Protective Services?

Mother Jones

Rated 2023-04-16T09:46:06-0700

The early days of Linux [LWN.net]

lwn.net

Rated 2023-04-15T16:28:19-0700

Poking around OpenAI.

Irrational Exuberance

Rated 2023-04-14T17:10:35-0700

It’s 10 PM. Do You Know Where Your Cat Is?

Hakai Magazine

Rated 2023-04-13T23:48:52-0700

The Paris Review - The Crane Wife

The Paris Review

Rated 2023-04-13T23:28:56-0700

[Letter from Minneapolis] The Sanctuary

#Homelessness

2020-09-11T13:55:36-0700 Harper's Magazine https://harpers.org/author/wesenzinna/#author 7,000 words

Rated 2023-04-13T19:16:16-0700

How does a magician trick other magicians? We went to find out.

nationalgeographic.com

Rated 2023-04-12T17:48:08-0700

As climate change worsens, some people might decide to DIY a solution

#Ocean Geoengineering

Vox

Rated 2023-04-11T16:59:57-0700

How to Beat Roulette: One Gambler Figured It Out and Won Big

Bloomberg

Rated 2023-04-11T08:40:36-0700

The Man Who Built Catan

The New Yorker

Rated 2023-04-11T03:16:40-0700

The impact of free-ranging domestic cats on wildlife of the United States | Nature Communications

Nature

Rated 2023-04-11T03:06:42-0700