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Writing Is My Main Freedom. One Day My Work Disappeared.A software change in my prison-issued electronic tablet ate up my drafts and eliminated basic writing tools. That may sound minor, but try sending a poem to your kid without line breaks. #Michigan 2021-12-16T19:00:00-0800 The Marshall Project Demetrius Buckley 1,000 words Rated 2023-05-19T11:44:44-0700
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The Driver’s SeatAdam Gopnik reached middle age and still didn’t know how to drive. How hard could it be? 2015-01-25T16:00:50-0800 The New Yorker Adam Gopnik 6,000 words Rated 2023-05-19T11:38:22-0700
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How to Quit CarsAdam Gopnik reviews “Carmageddon,” by Daniel Knowles, and “Paved Paradise,” by Henry Grabar, and considers the shortsighted history of transportation and the possibilities for its future. #Books 2023-05-15T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker Adam Gopnik 4,000 words Rated 2023-05-19T07:28:42-0700
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The Regenerating Power of Big Basin’s RedwoodsThe Regenerating Power of Big Basin’s Redwoods By Gayil Nalls Sign up for our monthly newsletter! Up in the Santa Cruz Mountains on the former homelands of the Cotoni and Quiroste tribes sits the oldest state park in California, Big Basin Redwoods State Park. It was formed in 1902 after long, exhausting efforts to preserve... 2023-04-21T12:52:58-0700 World Sensorium / Conservancy 1,000 words Rated 2023-05-17T11:15:28-0700
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The First Year of AI College Ends in RuinThere’s an arms race on campus, and professors are losing. #Middle East #Work 2023-05-16T10:28:26-0700 The Atlantic Ian Bogost ($) 2,000 words Rated 2023-05-17T08:02:40-0700
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Widely used chemical strongly linked to Parkinson’s diseaseCommon environmental contaminant increased rate of neurodegenerative affliction in one population by 70% science.org 2,000 words Rated 2023-05-16T10:02:34-0700
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The Billion-Dollar Ponzi Scheme That Hooked Warren Buffett and the U.S. TreasuryHow a small-town auto mechanic peddling a green-energy breakthrough pulled off a massive scam #High School 2023-05-08T04:00:00-0700 The Atlantic Ariel Sabar 9,000 words Rated 2023-05-16T01:06:14-0700
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Why Did the Obamas Fail to Take On Corporate Agriculture?Activists hoped President Obama would fight for stronger regulation. Eight years later, they’re still waiting. #Agriculture #Barack Obama #Fast Food #Food & drink 2016-10-05T01:55:45-0700 The New York Times Michael Pollan ($) 6,000 words Rated 2023-05-15T22:27:38-0700
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Vice Files for Chapter 11 in Shift of Fortune for Media UpstartVice Media LLC filed for bankruptcy protection and struck a deal to sell itself to creditors, a precipitous fall for the company that once boasted a $5.7 billion valuation. #Media #New York 2023-05-14T22:50:37-0700 Bloomberg Amelia Pollard, Graham Starr 1,000 words Rated 2023-05-15T07:28:40-0700 |
Shenzhen Tech Girl Naomi Wu: My experience with Sarah Jeong, Jason Koebler, and Vice MagazineTranslator and proofreader’s note: There are large parts of this document that don’t parse well either from Chinese or from Naomi’s written English into more fluent English. In trying to do so, some… 2018-08-05T18:56:42-0700 Medium Naomi 'SexyCyborg' Wu 5,000 words Rated 2023-05-15T07:22:36-0700
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Our crazy farm subsidies, explainedThe US offers farm subsidies pretty heavily for some crops, but what began as a temporary measure gradually became more permanent. #Technology 2015-04-20T02:00:23-0700 Grist Amelia Urry 2,000 words Rated 2023-05-14T22:58:24-0700
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The Biden Administration Will Pay Farmers More Money Not to FarmThe goal is to add 4 million acres of farmland to the Conservation Reserve Program, which takes land out of production to blunt agriculture’s environmental impact. 2021-05-01T00:00:00-0700 Governing 1,000 words Rated 2023-05-14T22:53:10-0700
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Into Thin AirPods | DefectorI’d like the record to show that I resisted getting AirPods for a long time. Within weeks of their 2016 release, I began spotting them (to my semi-surprise, considering their price) in the ear canals of lots of people on public transit–a reliable barometer of how popular a new tech product will turn out to ... 2023-05-08T10:16:37-0700 defector.com 4,000 words Rated 2023-05-13T06:30:01-0700
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Taco Bell’s Innovation Kitchen, the Front Line in the Stunt-Food WarsAntonia Hitchens writes about how the chain outdid Burger King’s Bacon Sundae, Pizza Hut’s hot-dog-stuffed crust, and KFC’s fried-chicken-flavored nail polish. 2023-04-17T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker Antonia Hitchens 5,000 words Rated 2023-05-12T22:14:26-0700
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The Supreme Court rediscovers humility — in a case about pigsThe justices just did something very unusual: They didn’t try to make themselves even more powerful. #Politics #Supreme Court 2023-05-11T10:55:00-0700 Vox Ian Millhiser 2,000 words Rated 2023-05-11T22:59:32-0700
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The Ugly Truth Behind “We Buy Ugly Houses”Rated 2023-05-11T22:16:37-0700
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These Intimate Photos Capture a Family Farm’s Bittersweet Final YearsPhotographer Ellen Harasimowicz has chronicled New England’s Willard Farm in its final harvests #Agriculture #Arts & Culture #Farming #Photography 2023-05-09T05:00:00-0700 Smithsonian Magazine Jeff Campagna 2,000 words Rated 2023-05-09T22:27:11-0700
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We’ve Had a Cheaper, More Potent Ozempic Alternative for DecadesNew 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
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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
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15 Minute Cities15 Minute Cities datasecretslox.com 45,000 words Rated 2023-05-07T12:23:48-0700
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‘Too greedy’: mass walkout at global science journal over ‘unethical’ feesEntire board resigns over actions of academic publisher whose profit margins outstrip even Google and Amazon 2023-05-07T00:00:16-0700 The Guardian Anna Fazackerley 1,000 words Rated 2023-05-07T12:11:43-0700
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Remote work is turning America into a 'suburban nation,' a massive millennial survey by BofA findsMillennials are looking to get out of cities and into Dodge (the suburbs). 2023-05-05T11:00:30-0700 Fortune Chloe Berger ($) 1,000 words Rated 2023-05-06T07:51:05-0700
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I’m in Wyoming to celebrate the next nuclear breakthroughBill Gates writes about visiting Kemmerer, Wyoming, the future site of the fourth-generation Natrium nuclear power plant being designed by TerraPower. #Nuclear power 2023-05-05T04:00:00-0700 gatesnotes.com Bill Gates 2,000 words Rated 2023-05-06T07:43:05-0700
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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
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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
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Book Review: From Oversight To Overkill... 2023-04-11T17:08:25-0700 Astral Codex Ten Scott Alexander 60,000 words Rated 2023-05-05T13:38:34-0700
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Big Oil Helped Shape Stanford’s Latest Climate-Research FocusThe university’s sustainability school chose greenhouse-gas removal after input from fossil-fuel executives. Critics say the industry’s involvement is cause for concern. 2023-05-04T11:49:50-0700 The Chronicle of Higher Education Stephanie M. Lee 2,000 words Rated 2023-05-05T09:53:51-0700 |
Income and emotional well-being: A conflict resolvedDo 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
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United States of AmericaThis 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
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The UK’s tortured attempt to remake the internet, explainedThe UK’s long-delayed Online Safety Bill is expected to become law this year, representing a massive change for how the internet is regulated in the country. 2023-05-04T00:00:00-0700 The Verge Jon Porter 3,000 words Rated 2023-05-04T19:12:21-0700
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Marketing Malpractice: The Cause and the CureMarketing 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
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Audrey Tang on what we can learn from Taiwan’s experiments with how to do democracyIn 2014 Taiwan was rocked by mass protests against a proposed trade agreement with China that was about to be agreed without the usual Parliamentary hearings. Students invaded and took over the Parliament. But rather than chant slogans, instead they livestreamed their own parliamentary debate over the trade deal, allowing volunteers to speak both in favour and against. 2022-02-02T14:43:27-0800 80,000 Hours 25,000 words Rated 2023-05-03T14:57:52-0700
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Ern Malley hoax - Wikipedia2003-10-07T06:50:08-0700 Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 4,000 words Rated 2023-05-03T06:41:31-0700
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Change My Mind: Density Increases Local But Decreases Global Prices... 2023-05-01T13:02:45-0700 Astral Codex Ten Scott Alexander 75,000 words Rated 2023-05-02T23:56:42-0700 |
When Private Equity Firms Bankrupt Their Own CompaniesPrivate 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
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A new energy source for downtown Boston: the Charles RiverThe owner of a Kendall Square plant is launching a project to generate steam for Boston and Cambridge by drawing water from the river that runs between them. 2023-05-01T13:10:43-0700 The Boston Globe Jon Chesto ($) 2,000 words Rated 2023-05-02T16:57:23-0700
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Would you live next to co-workers for the right price? This company is betting yesBusinesses like Cook Medical in Indiana say the housing shortage makes it harder to recruit and keep middle-income workers. Now, more companies are building places for employees to rent or even buy. 2023-05-02T02:20:10-0700 NPR Jennifer Ludden, Marisa Peñaloza 2,000 words Rated 2023-05-02T16:13:05-0700
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The Future of FertilityEmily Witt on the biotech startups seeking to change human reproduction. 2023-04-17T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker Emily Witt 6,000 words Rated 2023-05-02T10:22:02-0700
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States’ Push to Protect Kids Online Could Remake the InternetNew age restrictions for minors on sites like TikTok and Pornhub could also hinder adults’ access to online services. 2023-04-30T02:00:21-0700 The New York Times Natasha Singer ($) 7,000 words Rated 2023-05-02T08:45:31-0700
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Big Tech Sees Like a StatePlus! 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
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U.S. Could Run Out of Cash by June 1, Yellen WarnsPresident Biden said he would meet with lawmakers on May 9 to discuss ways to avoid a default. 2023-05-01T13:25:39-0700 The New York Times Alan Rappeport, Jim Tankersley ($) 2,000 words Rated 2023-05-01T20:46:44-0700 |
The Risky Gamble of Kevin McCarthy’s Debt-Ceiling StrategyJonathan Blitzer writes about the House Republican’s budget proposal that was bundled with its vote to raise the debt ceiling, and about Kevin McCarthy’s weakened position as Speaker. 2023-04-28T13:22:28-0700 The New Yorker Jonathan Blitzer 2,000 words Rated 2023-05-01T07:49:08-0700
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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
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It's Not Intelligent If It Always Halts: A Critical Perspective on Current Approaches to AGIIntelligence 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
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Advanced Small Modular ReactorsAdvanced small modular reactors (SMRs) offer advantages such as relatively small size, reduced capital investment, ability to be sited in locations not possible for larger nuclear plants, and provisions for incremental power additions. 2019-05-14T08:27:40-0700 INL 2,000 words Rated 2023-04-30T21:39:24-0700
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Small modular reactors produce high levels of nuclear wasteSmall 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
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The Internet Is Just Investment Banking NowThe 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
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Nuclear Power Today | Nuclear Energy - World Nuclear AssociationNuclear energy provides about 30% of the world's low carbon electricity. There are about 450 commercial nuclear power reactors operable in 30 countries. #Nuclear power world nuclear 3,000 words Rated 2023-04-29T08:48:08-0700
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The Real Difference Between European and American ButterRated 2023-04-28T14:38:16-0700
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Fed Slams Its Own Oversight of Silicon Valley Bank in Post-MortemThe Federal Reserve released hundreds of pages documenting how bank supervision and regulation failed to prevent the lender’s painful collapse. The F.D.I.C. released a separate report on Signature Bank’s failure. 2023-04-28T02:00:15-0700 The New York Times Jeanna Smialek ($) 4,000 words Rated 2023-04-28T11:15:49-0700 |