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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. 2023-05-23T05:36:06-0700 Works in Progress 8,000 words Rated 2023-06-27T20:58:00-0700 - sethherr
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The Cancer-Drug Shortage Is DifferentFourteen crucial chemotherapies are currently in shortage. Why does this keep happening? 2023-06-26T04:00:00-0700 The Atlantic Ed Yong ($) 2,000 words Rated 2023-06-26T17:05:16-0700 - Jaog
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A year after Dobbs decision, Texas has settled in to a post-abortion realityThe impact of Texas’ near-total ban on abortion is coming into focus as patients and providers leave the state, legal challenges languish and the state’s social safety net braces for a baby boom. #Abortion #Health Care 2023-06-23T03:00:00-0700 The Texas Tribune Eleanor Klibanoff 3,000 words Rated 2023-06-23T16:46:32-0700 - &e
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One Free Trick: How to Use the Writing Skills You Have to Learn the Ones You Don’tWhen I went to the Viable Paradise writer’s workshop back in the distant dim year of 2013, the inestimable Elizabeth Bear, along with various other people who are cleverer than me, explained to me … 2019-03-25T09:00:40-0700 Tor.com https://www.tor.com/author/arkady-martine/ 3,000 words Rated 2023-06-22T20:31:18-0700 - sethherr
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Why Is Narendra Modi So Popular? Tune In to Find Out.The Indian leader, who visits Washington this week, has softened his image at home with an old-fashioned radio show, which feeds a vast social media apparatus. #India #Radio #Social Media 2023-06-20T23:18:15-0700 The New York Times Mujib Mashal ($) 2,000 words Rated 2023-06-21T16:53:36-0700 - elll
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Regulating AI in the practice of lawWhat's going to happen, and what should we do about it? 2023-06-11T16:47:11-0700 Adam's Legal Newsletter Adam Unikowsky 5,000 words Rated 2023-06-20T17:44:18-0700 - &e
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San Francisco Police Traffic EnforcementAn analysis of SFPD moving violation citations in San Francisco transpomaps.org 3,000 words Rated 2023-06-20T09:49:33-0700 - sethherr
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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 2023-06-20T07:12:37-0700 - sethherr
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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 2023-06-18T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker Christopher Heaney 2,000 words Rated 2023-06-19T23:43:03-0700 - sethherr
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Moneyball Broke BaseballBut now the whiz kids who nearly ruined the national pastime have returned to save it. #New York 2023-06-06T04:00:00-0700 The Atlantic Mark Leibovich ($) 8,000 words Rated 2023-06-19T23:34:55-0700 - sethherr
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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 2023-06-19T01:30:26-0700 STAT Kristen Rice 1,000 words Rated 2023-06-19T06:15:33-0700 - Jaog
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Weike Wang on Citizenship and BelongingDeborah Treisman interviews the author Weike Wang about “Status in Flux,” her story from the June 26, 2023, issue of The New Yorker. #Fiction 2023-06-19T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker Deborah Treisman 1,000 words Rated 2023-06-19T06:02:09-0700 - Jaog
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The Things We CarryJon Adams and Tienlon Ho illustrate how, when dealing with their children, they subconsciously mirror the behavioral patterns of their own parents. #Family #Immigrants #Parenthood #Relationships 2023-06-18T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker Jon Adams, Tienlon Ho 200 words Rated 2023-06-18T08:38:17-0700 - Jaog
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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 2023-06-14T04:42:18-0700 Outside Online Kristin Hostetter 2,000 words Rated 2023-06-14T05:56:23-0700 - sethherr
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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... 2023-06-11T17:00:00-0700 Rails at Scale 5,000 words Rated 2023-06-13T16:37:24-0700 - sethherr
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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 2023-05-23T01:20:41-0700 The New York Times Francesca Mari, Luca Locatelli ($) 7,000 words Rated 2023-06-13T11:07:14-0700 - sethherr
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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 2023-06-12T02:00:32-0700 NPR Michaeleen Doucleff 3,000 words Rated 2023-06-13T10:59:28-0700 - sethherr
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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. 2023-06-11T23:40:00-0700 BBC Science Focus Magazine Paul Byrne 2,000 words Rated 2023-06-13T10:52:47-0700 - sethherr
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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. 2022-08-16T08:03:14-0700 Morning Brew Erin Cabrey, Maeve Allsup 1,000 words Rated 2023-06-11T18:24:10-0700 - sethherr
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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 2019-07-03T00:00:00-0700 The New York Times Tim Heffernan 2,000 words Rated 2023-06-11T10:03:39-0700 - Jaog
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Perspective | History shows moving manufacturing to North America isn’t a cure-allThe initial promise of Mexican factories in the 1960s gave way to impoverished communities and capital flight in search of higher profits. #Buy American 2023-03-06T03:00:09-0800 The Washington Post Sean Harvey ($) 1,000 words Rated 2023-06-11T09:44:37-0700 - Jaog
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Biden’s ‘Buy America’ bid runs into manufacturing woes it aims to fixThe “Buy America” initiative that President Biden says will promote domestic manufacturing has hit a snag: The United States no longer makes many of the items needed to modernize roads, bridges and ports. #Buy American 2023-02-18T04:00:00-0800 The Washington Post David J. Lynch ($) 2,000 words Rated 2023-06-11T09:40:30-0700 - Jaog
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Made in USAMade in the USA Claims Do you promote your products as “Made in the USA”? Under the law, some products must disclose U.S. content. #Buy American 2018-10-31T12:22:30-0700 Federal Trade Commission 2,000 words Rated 2023-06-10T06:37:44-0700 - &e
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The Stupidity of "Buy American"The case against economic protectionism 2011-11-03T04:00:00-0700 Reason Magazine John Stossel 1,000 words Rated 2023-06-09T19:06:07-0700 - sethherr
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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 2023-04-09T12:25:06-0700 The New Yorker Helen Rosner 7,000 words Rated 2023-06-09T16:54:30-0700 - sethherr
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Made in AmericaIn its special report #Buy American #Cars #Money Consumer Reports 2,000 words Rated 2023-06-08T08:00:11-0700 - sethherr
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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 2023-06-08T07:40:41-0700 - sethherr
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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... 2023-06-07T00:00:00-0700 Nature Mankowitz, Daniel J., Michi, Andrea, Zhernov, Anton, Gelmi, Marco, ... 10,000 words Rated 2023-06-07T23:48:39-0700 - sethherr
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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 2023-06-06T12:00:00-0700 The Hill Scott Wallsten, opinion contributor 2,000 words Rated 2023-06-07T18:51:33-0700 - sethherr
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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 2023-06-07T05:13:41-0700 - sethherr
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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 2022-02-18T19:39:00-0800 Alpha Rail 1,000 words Rated 2023-06-05T18:40:52-0700 - cindy
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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 2023-06-03T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker Darrin Bell 200 words Rated 2023-06-04T07:23:39-0700 - sethherr
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Things I Won't Work With: Hexanitrohexaazaisowurtzitanescience.org 1,000 words Rated 2023-06-04T07:19:45-0700 - sethherr
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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. 2023-05-18T05:50:27-0700 Brookings Connor Raso 2,000 words Rated 2023-06-04T07:15:17-0700 - sethherr
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It Will Cost Up to $21.5 Billion to Clean Up California’s Oil Sites. The Industry Won’t Make Enough Money to Pay for It.An expert used California regulators’ methodology to estimate the cost of cleaning up the state’s onshore oil and gas industry. The study found that cleanup costs will be triple the industry’s projected profits. 2023-05-18T03:00:00-0700 ProPublica Mark Olalde 2,000 words Rated 2023-06-03T21:02:38-0700 - sethherr
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Does too much pornography numb us to sexual pleasure? | Aeon EssaysCritics say that porn degrades women, dulls sexual pleasure, and ruins authentic relationships – are they right? 2015-06-22T00:00:00-0700 Aeon Magazine Maria Konnikova 4,000 words Rated 2023-06-01T23:42:02-0700 - elll
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When the Neighbors Don’t Share Your Vision (and That Vision Involves ‘Transformers’ Statues)A professor decorated a sidewalk in Georgetown with 10-foot sculptures of Bumblebee and Optimus Prime. The well-heeled locals were not pleased. #Housing #Real Estate #Urban Planning 2023-06-01T08:45:20-0700 The New York Times Noreen Malone ($) 4,000 words Rated 2023-06-01T13:00:11-0700 - cindy
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The 2010s Broke Our Sense Of TimeThe rhythms of American life changed in the 2010s. How everything from TV to Trump to Instagram messed with your head just enough that time feels like it melted. #2010s #Donald Trump #Facebook #Instagram #Twitter 2019-10-24T16:56:46-0700 BuzzFeed News Katherine Miller 5,000 words Rated 2023-05-31T22:29:37-0700 - elll
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Undoing bikeshare’s original sinBikeshare has been a godsend. Why not subsidize it? 2023-04-18T00:00:00-0700 Fast Company Aimee Rawlins 3,000 words Rated 2023-05-30T19:54:00-0700 - sethherr
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The Dave Matthews Guide to Living and DyingThe troubadour of mellow vibes has been one of the biggest acts in music for three decades. Now 56, Matthews has been singing about mortality for a long time, and he’s confronting its specter in new and surprising ways, all while trying to figure out how to do some good in the world. #Culture #Music #Profile 2023-05-18T05:00:00-0700 GQ Alex Pappademas, Andreas Laszlo Konrath 6,000 words Rated 2023-05-30T16:37:07-0700 - elll
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Can the ‘California Effect’ Survive in a Hyperpartisan America?For decades the state has been setting policy for the whole nation. Now red states are pushing back. #California #Cars #Florida 2023-05-30T01:50:08-0700 The New York Times Conor Dougherty ($) 3,000 words Rated 2023-05-30T14:37:29-0700 - cindy
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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. 2023-05-29T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker Evan Osnos 8,000 words Rated 2023-05-30T08:55:27-0700 - sethherr
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