Articles by andrewl
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MIT president: Why so many optimistic scientists are losing heart (bostonglobe.com)

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'Beauty of the Beasts' Review: The Gross and the Grimy (wsj.com)

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Why AI Needs a Sense of Smell (noemamag.com)

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Kicking Off the ATP Working Group at the IETF (atproto.com)

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The Death of the Cheap Laptop Is Coming (nytimes.com)

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David Gelernter recommends 'small good looking blonde' to satisfy Epstein (rawstory.com)

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Operation Bluebird wants to reclaim Twitter's trademark for a new social network (theverge.com)

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Cybercrims Arrested, Accused of Plotting 'violence-as-a-service' (theregister.com)

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Kicking Robots – Humanoids and the Tech­ Industry Hype Machine (harpers.org)

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The last-ever penny will be minted today in Philadelphia (cnn.com)

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Western Executives Shaken After Visiting China (slashdot.org)

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We Are Different from All Other Humans in History (forkingpaths.co)

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Tumult and Sympathy – The Letters of Oliver Sacks (commonwealmagazine.org)

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AI Founder Became a Billionaire by Building ChatGPT for Doctors (forbes.com/sites/amyfeldman)

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Scientists Warn US Will Lose a Generation of Talent Because of Trump Cuts (theguardian.com)

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Mysterious Database of 184M Records Exposes Login Credentials (wired.com)

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Still Booting: People Stuck Using Ancient Windows Computers (bbc.com)

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95% of Flu and Herpes Infection Neutralized by Chewing Gum (newatlas.com)

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Life on a Blacklist (chinabooksreview.com)

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Pathfinder 1: The Airship That Could Usher in a New Age (bbc.com)

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Outgoing NASA Administrator Urges Incoming Leaders to Stick with Artemis Plan (arstechnica.com)

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Would You Risk a Breakdown to Cure Baldness? (economist.com)

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Rare 'Alice in Wonderland Syndrome' Warps Reality (scientificamerican.com)

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Investigation Launched into Queensland Virus Lab Breach (abc.net.au)

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Long Fatigue: The Exhaustion That Lingers After an Infection (bbc.com)

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Seventy Years On, Why Godzilla Is the Darkest Monster Movie of Them All (bbc.com)

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We Shall Fight in the Buttery – Oxford's War 1939–1945 (literaryreview.co.uk)

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'I can't run a business like this': Why the WordPress Row Matters (bbc.com)

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The Mad Files (tabletmag.com)

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5D 'Eternity Crystal' Stores 360 TB of Data for Billions of Years (newatlas.com)

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Antony Blinken Dragged US Diplomacy into the 21st Century (wired.com)

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Burning Man: Why the US Festival Could Be in Trouble (bbc.com)

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IRS Has Loads of Legacy IT, Still Has No Firm Plans to Replace It (theregister.com)

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What One Man Learned Living Alone in the Wilderness for 40 Years (washingtonpost.com)

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What Are the Biggest Misconceptions About Biosecurity and Pandemic Risk? (80000hours.org)

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The Trouble with Old Men (granta.com)

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Deep Abandoned Mine in Finland to Be Turned into a Giant Gravity Battery (iflscience.com)

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Cork is displacing plastics and creating a billion-dollar industry (washingtonpost.com)

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Inside the Crime Rings Trafficking Sand (scientificamerican.com)

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Psychedelics Gave Terminal Patients Relief from Their Intense Anxiety (washingtonpost.com)

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People in Rice-Farming Areas Are Less Happy Than People in Wheat-Farming Areas (ssrn.com)

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Fifty-Two Things I Learned in 2023 (medium.com/magnetic)

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Tiny Living Robots Made from Human Cells Surprise Scientists (cnn.com)

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Psychosis and Psychedelics (aeon.co)

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How Mathematics Built the Modern World (worksinprogress.co)

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An Engineer Showcases the 'Nothing in Particular' Our World Depends On (washingtonpost.com)

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Project Primrose: Adobe's Digital Dress Which Can Change Patterns (euronews.com)

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How to Maintain Mental Hygiene as an Open Source Researcher (bellingcat.com)

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CubeSat Rocket Thruster Is So Small It Has to Be Made Like Microchips (newatlas.com)

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Emergency Preparedness Supplies (nytimes.com)

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This Whale May Be Largest Animal Ever-We Have No Idea How It Got So Big (washingtonpost.com)

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Marijuana addiction: those struggling often face skepticism (washingtonpost.com)

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Hollywood movie aside, just how good a physicist was Oppenheimer? (science.org)

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‘The Man Who Organized Nature’: Linnaeus (wsj.com)

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The US Military Revives an Idea for Stealthy Sea Power (bbc.com)

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The Best PTSD Treatment You’ve Never Heard Of (washingtonpost.com)

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[dupe] The FBI Has Formed a National Database to Track and Prevent “Swatting” (nbcnews.com)

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I Moved My Gmail to Proton. It Was Surprisingly Easy (washingtonpost.com)

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An Illustrated Guide to Mouth Gestures and Their Meanings Around the World (mitpress.mit.edu)

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An Army Command Like No Other Seeks to Master the Future of War (washingtonpost.com)

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Think You Can Land a Plane? We Put Average People to the Test (washingtonpost.com)

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Eliezer Yudkowsky on What Superintelligence Can or Can’t Do (twitter.com/esyudkowsky)

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Executive Behind ChatGPT Pushes for a New Revolution: Psychedelics (washingtonpost.com)

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Paper Airplane Designed by Boeing Engineers Breaks World Distance Record (cnn.com)

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The Last Writings of Thomas S. Kuhn: Incommensurability in Science (lrb.co.uk)

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End of BreachForums Could Take a Bite Out of Cybercrime (washingtonpost.com)

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The philosopher: A conversation with Grady Booch (infoworld.com)

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The Age of the Silicon Valley ‘Moonshot’ Is Over (washingtonpost.com)

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A ‘Climate Solution’ That Spies Worry Could Trigger War (washingtonpost.com)

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The IRS Should Not Be Running on 60-Year-Old Technology (washingtonpost.com)

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What Was It Like to Grow Up in the Last Ice Age? (aeon.co)

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I Tried Ketamine to Treat My Depression. It Was Terrifying (washingtonpost.com)

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A New History Unveils the Exploitative Origins of the Tech Giants (washingtonpost.com)

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Cruel Britannia? Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning (literaryreview.co.uk)

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They Handled Nuclear Missiles. Now They’re Getting Cancer (washingtonpost.com)

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GABA Labs – Beyond Ethanol (gabalabs.com)

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Britain’s Proposed Online Safety Rules Defy Common Sense (washingtonpost.com)

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Japan Plans New Government Unit to Deal with Disinformation Campaigns (nhk.or.jp)

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Scientists Invented a Melting Liquid Robot That Can Escape from a Cage (washingtonpost.com)

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‘Bionic Nose’ May Help People Experiencing Smell Loss, Researchers Say (washingtonpost.com)

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Can the Artistic-Literary World Recognise the Beauty and Humanity in Math? (prospectmagazine.co.uk)

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ISS Astronauts Are Building Objects That Couldn’t Exist on Earth (popsci.com)

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Crabs Have Evolved Five Separate Times – Why Do the Same Forms Keep Coming Back? (theconversation.com)

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America’s Genius Lies in Its Respect for Rebellion (washingtonpost.com)

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Soon You’ll Be Able to Make Your Own Movie with AI (vulture.com)

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Remote work’s toll on cities (nymag.com)

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How A Vermont Farmer Proved No Snowflakes Are Alike (cnn.com)

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We’re in a golden age of board games (washingtonpost.com)

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The Decline of the City Grid (economist.com)

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New CRISPR Tech Makes It Possible to Wipe Out Invasive Mice (freethink.com)

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We’re Drowning in Old Books. But Getting Rid of Them Is Heartbreaking (washingtonpost.com)

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Running with the Hadza – The Race Celebrating a Way of Life (bbc.co.uk)

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First Leader of High-Risk Medical Research Agency Discusses Startup (science.org)

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We have to build differently with concrete (noemamag.com)

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Is Moore’s Law Really Dead? (wired.com)

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Should All Genetics Research on Intelligence Be Off Limits? (chronicle.com)

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Leprosy: Ancient Disease Able to Regenerate Organs (bbc.com)

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A Biography That May Change Your Mind About J. Edgar Hoover (washingtonpost.com)

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Cyborg Cockroaches Are Coming, and They Just Want to Help (washingtonpost.com)

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The Plain View – Deepcake (wired.com)