Articles by RickJWagner
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Meet the UK's Own LeBron James (bbc.com)

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A Stock Certificate from 1941 Taught Me More About AI Than Anyone from OpenAI (apersai.substack.com)

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Effect of Cocoa Beverage and Dark Chocolate Consumption on Blood Pressure (nih.gov)

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To Understand AI, Think Like a Dragonfly (noemamag.com)

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How Helping your rivals makes you harder to beat (bigthink.com)

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Nascar champion Kyle Busch dies, 41 after hospitalization with 'severe illness' (npr.org)

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Why Taxing the Wealthy Is Harder Than It Looks (ofdollarsanddata.com)

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Ted Turner Was Elon Musk Before Elon Musk Was Elon Musk (realclearmarkets.com)

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The Self over Time (sciencedirect.com)

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RCP8.5 Is Officially Dead (rogerpielkejr.substack.com)

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The Dating App Swipe Is Dying. What Comes Next May Be Worse (insidehook.com)

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How the Rules of Getting Rich Change in Every Era (fastcompany.com)

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Tesla's New AI Tech Could Save Lives, Thanks to Quicker Airbags (caranddriver.com)

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The balcony solar boom is coming to the US (technologyreview.com)

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The Great Flattening (warman.life)

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Unpredictability creates alpha: Stock picking (klementoninvesting.substack.com)

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The impact of self-affirmation interventions on well-being: A meta-analysis (apa.org)

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Art and War with a Master Storyteller (realcleardefense.com)

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A Scientist Says Humans Will Go Backwards in Time Within Just 3 Years (popularmechanics.com)

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The Basics of Becoming Wise (dariusforoux.com)

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The most successful health campaign in modern history (msn.com)

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Why Keynes Was Wrong (thecritic.co.uk)

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Starbucks expansion in Nashville brews bitterness in Seattle (seattletimes.com)

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Why You're Sharp One Day and Foggy the Next (insidehook.com)

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I Thought the System Was Dumb Until They Put Me in Charge of Fixing It (realclearmarkets.com)

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The New York Times is wrong about the birth rate (theargumentmag.com)

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Elon Musk's Mistaken Call for a 'Universal High Income' (reason.com)

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Why Japan has such good railways (worksinprogress.co)

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A Reality Check on the Inequality Panic (humanprogress.org)

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"Project Hail Mary's" Success: A Story You Can Believe In (civitasoutlook.com)

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What Are Stablecoins Used for Today? Estimating the Distribution of Stablecoins (kansascityfed.org)

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Bernie Sanders: AI is coming for the working class. We must fight (foxnews.com)

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Leisure Activities and the Risk of Dementia in the Elderly (nejm.org)

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Gay Talese on a Writer's Life (realclearpolitics.com)

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Study: Become more optimistic by imagining a best possible self (nih.gov)

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Toyota joins hydrogen truck alliance push (foxnews.com)

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AIs Job Ledger has 2 Columns (aei.org)

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Suspect arrested after incendiary device thrown at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's home (cnn.com)

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The Lesson of the Lorax isn't what you think (thedailyeconomy.org)

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Tesla is developing a new smaller, cheaper EV (reuters.com)

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Bill Gates to testify before House Oversight in Epstein probe (politico.com)

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10 Enduring Lessons from Adam Smith (thedailyeconomy.org)

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Epic Decline (superjoost.substack.com)

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Age of Invention: Why Scotland Succeeded (ageofinvention.xyz)

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Doubt the Forecast (humbledollar.com)

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Depression is linked to a pessimistic bias, not a realistic view of the world (psypost.org)

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You don't have to gamble for gambling to ruin your life (yourbrainonmoney.substack.com)

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Good News Deprivation Syndrome (tonyisola.com)

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Board games, cognitive decline and dementia (nih.gov)

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Leonid Radvinsky, Secretive Porn Entrepreneur and OnlyFans Billionaire, Dies 43 (forbes.com/sites/conormurray)

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Mining the Deep Ocean (knowablemagazine.org)

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Human Musicians Are Doomed (klementoninvesting.substack.com)

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London, San Francisco and Beijing's "Remarkable Reductions" in Air Pollution (theguardian.com)

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The USPS Honors Lowrider History with These Commemorative Stamps (caranddriver.com)

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What 122 Universal Basic Income Experiments Show (thedailyeconomy.org)

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Man Designs mRNA Vaccine to Treat His Dog's Cancer (reason.com)

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Man arrested on child sexual abuse charge after license plate reader pings (5newsonline.com)

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Chuck Norris, 'Walker, Texas Ranger' star and martial artist, dies at 86 (yahoo.com)

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When Problem Solving Followed by Instruction Works: Evidence for Productive Fail (sagepub.com)

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Is Using Airplane Mode on Flights Still Necessary? (insidehook.com)

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Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence (arxiv.org)

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The Oscars Died This Weekend, Did Anyone Notice? (quoththeraven.substack.com)

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Paul Ehrlich Wasn't Premature: He Was Wicked (realclearmarkets.com)

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How America learned to love Barnes and Noble again (theatlantic.com)

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High income improves evaluation of life but not emotional well-being (pnas.org)

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Hollywood Enters Oscars Weekend in Existential Crisis (theculturenewspaper.com)

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What's Behind the Historic Drop in U.S. Crime (wsj.com)

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'Playing with fire': Jeffrey Epstein bankrolled Bill Gates reported girlfriend (fortune.com)

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Making Things Hard on Yourself, but in a Good Way: Desirable Difficulties [pdf] (ucla.edu)

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Science Has a Major Fraud Problem (thefp.com)

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The Weighted Hotel Minibar Is Wildly Outdated (insidehook.com)

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The Mag 7 Are Dead. How the Hottest Trade of the Decade Fizzled Out (barrons.com)

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Inverted U-shaped relationship between sleep duration and phenotypic age (nature.com)

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Stop Lamenting Inequality–Start Questioning Bad Policy (thedailyeconomy.org)

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First Cybercab Rolls Off Line: Musk Says YouTuber Will Have to Shave His Head (stocktwits.com)

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The Accidental Invention of the Lifesaving Pacemaker (2019) (saturdayeveningpost.com)

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Target to remove synthetic color from cereals by May end (cnbc.com)

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I Could Never Work for Anyone Else: A Wiseass Problem (harveysawikin.substack.com)

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In the Prosperous Future That Awaits, We'll All Be Neil Sedaka (realclearmarkets.com)

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MacBook Neo: Whoa ($599) (spyglass.org)

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Every Coen Brothers Movie, Ranked (insidehook.com)

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Why Going to Mars Would Be Bad for Your Health (slate.com)

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Adam Smith's Gift (lawliberty.org)

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Runners to be given prize money after being led off course (bbc.com)

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James K. Polk and the 5,106 Votes That Changed America (coolidgereview.com)

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Why Do Investors Keep Buying Century Bonds? (thedailyeconomy.org)

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10 Charts That Capture How the World Is Changing (digitalnative.tech)

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Violent Crime Drops in SF as Major US Cities See Declines (humanprogress.org)

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Spanish engineer reports flaw in 'smart' vacuums, takes control of 7k devices (theguardian.com)

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Illusion and Well-Being: A Perspective on Mental Health [pdf] (washington.edu)

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How to make more People who make Things (stephenkinsella.substack.com)

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Rich Old People (awealthofcommonsense.com)

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Less than 14% of those arrested by ICE had violent criminal records (cbsnews.com)

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Baltimore police credit partnerships, hiring increases for historic crime drop (cbsnews.com)

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How ‘Pachelbel's Canon' Conquered Classical Music (wsj.com)

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Can You Pass the "Underwear Fitness Test"? (insidehook.com)

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Agentic AI isn't eating software – it's feeding market volatility (bondvigilantes.com)

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'No meat on its bones': Federal judge dismisses lawsuit over boneless wings (stocks.apple.com)

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Surprising Revival: Gen Z Men and Highly Educated Lead Return to Religion (realclearinvestigations.com)

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Bitcoin's plunge should end the hype that it is digital gold (thehill.com)