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Ashkenazi IQ figures are underestimatesRotating shapes is not intelligence 2024-09-14T23:50:07-0700 NonZionism משכיל בינה 3,000 words Rated 2024-10-15T20:52:05-0700
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Reflections on PalantirA retrospective of an eight-year stint. 2024-10-15T12:19:09-0700 Nabeel S. Qureshi 6,000 words Rated 2024-10-16T17:09:31-0700
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Why birds do not fall while sleepingThe only permanent bipeds of the animal kingdom alongside humans, birds have an extraordinary sense of balance. How do these direct descendants of the dinosaurs maintain this stability, especially when sleeping? Scientists recently succeeded in solving the mystery. CNRS News 1,000 words Rated 2024-10-17T07:34:46-0700
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Doctor Fukushi Masaichi And The Art Of Preserving Tattooed SkinTattoos have different meanings across cultures, ranging from sacred symbols to marks of rebellion. In Japan, tattoos are part of a broader subculture called irezumi, an intricate form of body art with its own set of unique designs, imagery, and symbolism. These elaborate tattoos often cover large parts of the body, with some resulting in full “bodysuits,” a tradition that is frequently linked with the yakuza—Japan’s organised crime syndicates.But while many viewed irezumi as a criminal mark or 2024-10-16T12:17:10-0700 DannyDutch dthholland 2,000 words Rated 2024-10-18T22:13:45-0700
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Martin Gurri: I Refused to Vote in the Last Two Elections. Now, I’m Voting for Trump.There are only two vital forces in American politics today: those who wish to control everything, and those who wish not to be controlled. Reluctantly, I choose the latter. 2024-10-16T15:23:54-0700 The Free Press Martin Gurri ($) 2,000 words Rated 2024-10-19T09:51:31-0700
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Opinion | Ann Patchett: The Decision I Made 30 Years Ago That I Still RegretWhat was email but the chance for more friends, more love, more work? #Books #Social Media #Writer 2024-10-15T02:00:20-0700 The New York Times Ann Patchett ($) 2,000 words Rated 2024-10-20T08:38:04-0700
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What if Kurt Vonnegut’s lost board game had actually been published in the 1950s?It could have been a contemporary of Risk, Diplomacy, and other legendary wargames #Gaming 2024-10-18T07:00:00-0700 Polygon Charlie Hall 1,000 words Rated 2024-10-20T18:04:54-0700
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Opinion | Turning the Great Highway into a park will reap millions for businessThe city's walkers and rollers won't be the only beneficiaries of a permanent highway closure. Nearby businesses will see a spending windfall. 2024-10-20T06:00:00-0700 The San Francisco Standard Stephen Braitsch 1,000 words Rated 2024-10-20T18:21:04-0700
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Opinion | School closures suck. But they’re necessary, and opposing them is wrongShould San Francisco families really be asked to give up on their small community schools for the sake of the public good? Yes, they should. #Education and schools 2024-10-16T10:29:20-0700 The San Francisco Standard Catharine Burhenne 1,000 words Rated 2024-10-20T22:01:12-0700
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Is It Better to Fail Spectacularly?Three weeks ago I wrote the following draft of a blog post entitled “Is It Better to Fail Spectacularly?”. I am having a lot of doubts. I’ve been training for the Chicago Marathon in earnest since June, but in reality the preparations began a year ago when I was accepted based on my qualifying time from the 2023 Ventura Marathon. I don’t have doubt that I can run a marathon. I have run three in the last year and a half, and I routinely go on weekend long runs that approach or surpass 20 miles. 2024-10-20T00:41:34-0700 danielmangum.com Daniel Mangum 4,000 words Rated 2024-10-21T12:25:45-0700
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What the Amish Can Teach America About Economic Mobility - WSJRated 2024-10-21T15:22:06-0700
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Opinion | Fatherhood Transforms Men’s Brains and BodiesRated 2024-10-21T15:24:18-0700
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Take The Near Impossible Literacy Test Louisiana Used to Suppress the Black Vote (1964)In William Faulkner’s 1938 novel The Unvanquished, the implacable Colonel Sartoris takes drastic action to stop the election of a black Republican candidate to office after the Civil War, destroying the ballots of black voters and shooting two Northern carpetbaggers. Open Culture, openculture.com 2024-10-21T00:21:20-0700 Openculture.com OC 500 words Rated 2024-10-21T18:22:31-0700
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Daniel Penny and New York’s VigilantesYears after Bernie Goetz made headlines, former Marine Penny is on trial for killing Jordan Neely, a homeless man, on the floor of a subway car in 2023. 2024-10-20T15:39:29-0700 The Free Press Kat Rosenfield ($) 3,000 words Rated 2024-10-21T22:12:40-0700
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The Trials of Daniel PennyThe white student who killed a black homeless man on the subway last year is either a killer or Good Samaritan, depending on who you ask. Finally, a jury will decide. 2024-10-20T15:14:04-0700 The Free Press Olivia Reingold 2,000 words Rated 2024-10-22T06:04:03-0700
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A Radical Approach to Flooding in the UK: Give Land Back to the SeaWhen a huge tract of land on the Somerset coast was deliberately flooded, the project was slammed as “ridiculous” by a local lawmaker. But the results have been transformative. #Agriculture #Birds #Britain #Climate Change #England #Environment #Global Warming 2024-10-21T21:01:25-0700 The New York Times Rory Smith, Andrew Testa ($) 2,000 words Rated 2024-10-22T07:50:25-0700
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The Real Story of “The Central Park Karen”New evidence comes to light. And Amy Cooper breaks her silence. 2021-08-03T08:23:24-0700 The Free Press Megan Phelps-Roper 2,000 words Rated 2024-10-22T20:24:20-0700
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Everything I built with Claude Artifacts this weekI’m a huge fan of Claude’s Artifacts feature, which lets you prompt Claude to create an interactive Single Page App (using HTML, CSS and JavaScript) and then view the result … simonwillison.net 2,000 words Rated 2024-10-23T22:44:54-0700
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Humans Are Evolving Right Before Our Eyes on The Tibetan Plateau"This is a case of ongoing natural selection." 2024-10-21T12:00:47-0700 ScienceAlert Michelle Starr 1,000 words Rated 2024-10-25T08:37:11-0700
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Before you buy a domain name, first check to see if it's hauntedIn mid-2022 I bought a new domain name. 2024-10-24T17:00:00-0700 Bryan Braun - Frontend Developer 1,000 words Rated 2024-10-25T21:39:40-0700
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Regenerative farming practices require unlearning past adviceEarly on a cool September morning, farmer Josh Payne tends to his flock in Concordia, just east of Kansas City, Missouri. As Payne opens the gate, about a thousand sheep round the corner and bound into fresh grass. The pasture the flock grazes was once corn and soybeans, along with the rest of the Payne ... 2024-10-11T08:31:57-0700 Investigate Midwest Lauren Cross 2,000 words Rated 2024-10-26T06:19:38-0700
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Notes From The Progress Studies Conference... 2024-10-24T05:16:15-0700 astralcodexten.com Scott Alexander 55,000 words Rated 2024-10-28T08:16:23-0700
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Michelin Will Announce Chicago, D.C., and New York Stars in December - Eater ChicagoRated 2024-10-28T09:04:22-0700
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From partials to ViewComponents: writing reusable front-end code in RailsRecently, we began using ViewComponents in our project to help us build the redesigned admin section... Tagged with rails, viewcomponent. 2022-06-03T09:21:46-0700 DEV Community Matouš Borák 3,000 words Rated 2024-10-28T14:37:43-0700 |
For the strongest disc golf throws, it’s all in the thumbsAmateur players got the best results by placing thumbs about 3 centimeters from the outer edge. 2024-10-23T14:15:15-0700 Ars Technica Jennifer Ouellette 1,000 words Rated 2024-10-28T17:28:38-0700
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A return to hand-written notes by learning to read & writeresearch.google 2,000 words Rated 2024-10-28T21:24:35-0700
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2024-10-26 buy payphones and retireComputers Are Bad 3,000 words Rated 2024-10-29T07:19:41-0700
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Australia/Lord_Howe is the weirdest timezone | SSOReadyTimezones are weird. But only finitely so. Here's the exact conceptual model you should have of them. ssoready.com 3,000 words Rated 2024-10-30T07:14:55-0700
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Physiology Friday #241: How Caffeine Dose and Timing Affect Our Sleep PhysiologyThat afternoon coffee is subtly changing your brain overnight—even if you can’t detect it. 2024-10-25T05:10:35-0700 Physiologically Speaking Brady Holmer 2,000 words Rated 2024-10-30T16:07:52-0700
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Hi Google, please stop 💩 the bed: a desperate plea from the independent web.Served with humor, as I cry into my goldfish bowl of boxed Chardonnay. 2024-10-28T09:51:44-0700 Building Shepherd.com Ben Fox 2,000 words Rated 2024-10-30T16:44:07-0700
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delroth's homepage - One weird trick to get the whole planet to send abuse complaints to your best friend(s)Rated 2024-10-30T18:31:33-0700
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How to Render CSS Dynamically in RailsRails is not just for HTML over the wire. This post demonstrates how and why you might use Rails for delivering CSS on the fly too. Joy of Rails 2,000 words Rated 2024-10-31T15:25:07-0700
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What Happens When Private Equity Takes Over a HospitalNew analysis shows alarming increase in patient complications 2023-12-26T00:00:00-0800 hms.harvard.edu 1,000 words Rated 2024-10-31T15:57:50-0700
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Democratising publishingThoughts on open source governance, non-profit organisations, and how to create trust within technology and media. 2024-10-30T06:00:21-0700 John O'Nolan 2,000 words Rated 2024-10-31T15:59:23-0700
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There is no such thing as a global method (in Ruby)What Ruby’s top-level methods actually are, who they belong to and how they are namespaced. zverok.space 2,000 words Rated 2024-10-31T20:07:37-0700
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Mark Zuckerberg is driving frenzy for ultra-expensive watchesWake up, babe, a new watch influencer just dropped. The swagged-out Zuck 2.0 has better hair, a hype beast wardrobe, and a multimillion-dollar watch collection that has fans and experts drooling with envy. #Fashion #Mark Zuckerberg #Silicon Valley 2024-10-16T06:00:00-0700 The San Francisco Standard Rya Jetha 1,000 words Rated 2024-11-02T13:42:04-0700
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The Tight-Knit World of Kamala Harris’s College SororityHow are members of A.K.A.—which Harris joined at Howard University—responding to their most famous sister’s Presidential campaign against Donald Trump? Jazmine Hughes reports. 2024-10-21T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker Jazmine Hughes 6,000 words Rated 2024-11-03T19:57:14-0800
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US Forest Service Decision to Halt Prescribed Burns in California is History RepeatingExploring the consequences of ending prescribed burns in California. Discover the importance of understanding the state's forest management practices. 2024-10-28T13:19:53-0700 Center for Economic and Policy Research CEPR 1,000 words Rated 2024-11-05T06:09:08-0800
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Forest Service Halts Prescribed Burns in California. Is It Worth the Risk? | KQEDPausing the beneficial burns to keep crews available for wildfires merely delays and exacerbates fire risk to communities, critics say. 2024-10-24T15:28:46-0700 kqed.org Danielle Venton 1,000 words Rated 2024-11-05T06:13:17-0800
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Hacker Fab Documentation | Hacker Fabthe first open-source semiconductor fab. docs.hackerfab.org 500 words Rated 2024-11-05T17:54:44-0800
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Where Harris’ campaign went wrongIt was supposed to be everything short of a free ad – a panel of women not containing their excitement to welcome Kamala Harris, ready to introduce her to their committed daytime audience of exactly the type of women the vice president’s campaign always hoped were going to be critical to her base. 2024-11-06T03:10:46-0800 lite.cnn.com Edward-Isaac Dovere ($) 2,000 words Rated 2024-11-06T15:03:51-0800
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From prison companies to Tesla: These stocks are soaring off the Trump victoryFormer President Donald Trump’s projected return to the White House is making many shareholders of publicly traded companies richer by the second. 2024-11-06T12:34:30-0800 lite.cnn.com Elisabeth Buchwald ($) 1,000 words Rated 2024-11-06T15:06:44-0800
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How to match Hashes in RSpec like a pro | Timur's BlogA cool undocumented feature that allows using matchers in hashes. 2022-09-21T17:00:00-0700 Timur Nugmanov 1,000 words Rated 2024-11-07T14:36:59-0800
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Ambulance hits Oregon cyclist, rushes him to hospital, then sticks him with $1,800 bill, lawsuit saysRated 2024-11-07T19:26:46-0800
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Congrats To Polymarket, But I Still Think They Were Mispriced... 2024-11-07T00:17:45-0800 astralcodexten.com Scott Alexander 45,000 words Rated 2024-11-07T22:27:19-0800
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Inside the Federal Work Force That Trump Has Promised to EvisceratePresident-elect Donald J. Trump and his allies have pledged to strike fear in the heart of what they term “the deep state.” They have already succeeded. #CIA #Donald Trump #Elon Musk #US Politics 2024-11-08T15:53:40-0800 The New York Times Robert Draper, Michael Crowley, Zach Montague ($) 2,000 words Rated 2024-11-09T06:13:10-0800
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Opinion | Wellness Should be Just a HobbyWellness should be just a hobby. 2024-11-10T03:00:08-0800 The New York Times Ashwin Rodrigues ($) 1,000 words Rated 2024-11-10T14:21:21-0800
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How I ship projects at big tech companiesWhat I think about when I'm lead engineer on a project seangoedecke.com 2,000 words Rated 2024-11-12T06:46:26-0800
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How to Fight E-Bike Backlash - CalBikeAs more California cities move to criminalize riding and e-bike, CalBike has created a toolkit to help advocates push back. 2024-11-05T14:52:35-0800 California Bicycle Coalition Jared Sanchez 1,000 words Rated 2024-11-12T07:06:26-0800
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When muscles work out, they help neurons to grow, a new study showsExercise can have benefits at the level of neurons, through chemical and mechanical effects, MIT researchers find. The discovery could inform exercise-related therapies for repairing damaged and deteriorating nerves. MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1,000 words Rated 2024-11-12T11:32:17-0800
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