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When They Warn of Rare Disorders, These Prenatal Tests Are Usually Wrong (Published 2022)

The false positives aren’t mentioned in the brochures for these blood screenings, which are sold by some of the biggest labs in the country.

2022-01-01T10:14:05-0800 The New York Times Sarah Kliff, Aatish Bhatia ($) 4,000 words

Rated 2023-05-04T05:52:56-0700 - cindy

Rated 2023-05-02T21:38:38-0700 - alexandradancing

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 - sethherr

Rated 2023-03-17T16:47:53-0700 - alexandradancing

Audrey Tang on what we can learn from Taiwan’s experiments with how to do democracy

In 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 - sethherr

Ern Malley hoax - Wikipedia

2003-10-07T06:50:08-0700 Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 4,000 words

Rated 2023-05-03T06:41:31-0700 - sethherr

Is nuclear power attractive or risky? In Minnesota, it’s both.

In Minnesota legislature, climate change has revived Democrats’ interest in nuclear power. But a radioactive leak has rekindled public concerns about safety.

2023-05-01T11:08:00-0700 The Christian Science Monitor Colette Davidson ($) 2,000 words

Rated 2023-05-03T06:31:42-0700 - jim

Change My Mind: Density Increases Local But Decreases Global Prices

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2023-05-01T13:02:45-0700 Astral Codex Ten Scott Alexander 75,000 words

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 - sethherr

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 2023-05-02T21:39:10-0700 - alexandradancing

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

The Town That Hershey Built - Emerging Horizons

Located just east of Pennsylvania’s capital city, the purpose-built town of Hershey was created by namesake chocolatier Milton S. Hershey. His premise was simple — he wanted a pleasant place for his factory workers to live, because happy employees were productive employees. That was back in 1905 and since then the Hershey empire, and the ...

2019-09-10T06:30:33-0700 emerginghorizons.com Candy B. Harrington 2,000 words

Rated 2023-05-02T20:12:42-0700 - cindy

A new energy source for downtown Boston: the Charles River

The 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 - sethherr

Rated 2023-05-02T12:31:48-0700 - jmjmh

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 - sethherr

Tucker Carlson and the Right

The New Yorker

Rated 2023-05-02T12:35:45-0700 - jmjmh

States’ Push to Protect Kids Online Could Remake the Internet

New 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 - sethherr

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 - sethherr

U.S. Could Run Out of Cash by June 1, Yellen Warns

President 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

How the Private Sector Is Shaping the Future of Nuclear Energy

Last week’s groundbreaking approval of the first-ever commercial small modular reactor in the United States fits a wider trend of private-sector leadership on nuclear innovation. We should strive to harness this further, and to remain optimistic about the future of nuclear energy in America.

2020-09-16T03:30:59-0700 National Review Christopher Barnard ($) 10,000 words

Rated 2023-05-01T11:46:20-0700 - elll

The Risky Gamble of Kevin McCarthy’s Debt-Ceiling Strategy

Jonathan 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 - sethherr

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 - sethherr

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 - sethherr

Advanced Small Modular Reactors

Advanced 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 - sethherr

Rated 2023-04-27T05:57:46-0700 - cindy

Meditations On Moloch

I. Allen Ginsberg’s famous poem on Moloch:What sphinx of cement and aluminum bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination? Moloch! Solitude! Filth! Ugliness! Ashcans and u…

2014-07-29T21:00:06-0700 Slate Star Codex 90,000 words

Rated 2023-04-30T12:53:41-0700 - pypurvis

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 - sethherr

Rated 2023-04-27T10:28:12-0700 - cindy

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 - sethherr

Americans Are Having Fewer Babies. They Told Us Why. (Published 2018)

Women have more options, for one. But a new poll also shows that financial insecurity is altering a generation’s choices.

2018-07-05T02:00:08-0700 The New York Times Claire Cain Miller ($) 8,000 words

Rated 2023-04-29T17:26:20-0700 - elll

Nuclear Power Today | Nuclear Energy - World Nuclear Association

Nuclear 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 - sethherr

Rated 2023-04-28T23:06:20-0700 - sam

Tim Federle - Wikipedia

2009-05-19T01:04:49-0700 Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 3,000 words

Rated 2023-04-28T18:35:17-0700 - testerios

The Real Difference Between European and American Butter

epicurious

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

Fed Slams Its Own Oversight of Silicon Valley Bank in Post-Mortem

The 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

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

The Christian Science Monitor

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

Opinion | I Didn’t Want It to Be True, but the Medium Really Is the Message

The New York Times

Rated 2023-04-28T05:35:52-0700 - cindy

Rated 2023-04-27T22:09:11-0700 - elll

https://www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2018/11/f57/Examination%20of%20Federal%20Financial%20Assistance%20in%20the%20Renewable%20Energy%20Mark..._1.pdf

Department of energy

Advanced Small Modular Reactors (SMRs)

Department of energy

Rated 2023-04-27T05:55:41-0700 - cindy

The Battle for the Soul of Buy Nothing

WIRED

Rated 2023-04-27T05:48:45-0700 - cindy

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

The Endless Battle to Remove Girls Do Porn Videos From Pornhub

vice.com

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

Behind Pornhub’s decade-old moderation problems

The Verge

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

We Need To Decommodify Mental Health Care

noemamag.com

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

Google contractors vote to unionize in historic landslide election

Google-contracted employees of Cognizant voted 41-0 to form a union Wednesday, forming a bargaining unit they hope will negotiate with both companies.

2023-04-26T14:07:53-0700 SFGATE Stephen Council 1,000 words

The Unbelievable Zombie Comeback of Analog Computing

WIRED

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

Rated 2023-04-26T05:53:14-0700 - Jaog

Why We Keep Guns in the House

The Atlantic

Rated 2023-04-25T23:12:39-0700 - sethherr

Rated 2023-04-22T22:38:10-0700 - Jaog

Rated 2023-04-23T08:30:01-0700 - &e

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 - sethherr

Rated 2023-04-25T05:05:47-0700 - cindy

Is owning pets ethical? Here’s the truth about pet happiness.

Vox

Rated 2023-04-25T20:31:45-0700 - elll