Articles by bookofjoe
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India Is a Rising Power, but Breathing in Its Capital Is Hazardous (nytimes.com)

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Meta's New A.I. Superstars Are Chafing Against the Rest of the Company (nytimes.com)

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Ultrafine particles in aircraft cabins of a French airline (sciencedirect.com)

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Why more American seniors are getting high (economist.com)

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The next version of the web will be built for machines, not humans (economist.com)

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Genetic study reveals hidden links between psychiatric conditions (nature.com)

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Googoosh, the Exiled Pop Star Who Unites Iran (theatlantic.com)

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A 3-hit metabolic signaling model for core symptoms of autism spectrum disorder (sciencedirect.com)

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A headset that stimulates the brain gets FDA clearance to treat depression (washingtonpost.com)

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Svedka Vodka's First Super Bowl Ad Will Be Made Primarily with AI (wsj.com)

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It Will Soon Be Curtains for the Movie Theater (wsj.com)

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Same Cart, Different Price:Instacart Price Experiments Cost Families at Checkout (groundworkcollaborative.org)

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Cocaine widely detected in some of Northern Ireland's major lakes and rivers (bbc.com)

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Microscopic robots that sense, think, act, and compute (science.org)

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We mapped 121,000 videos to figure out how TikTok learns your interests (washingtonpost.com)

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Scientists Uncover Why the World's Most Common Heart Drug Causes Muscle Pain (scitechdaily.com)

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MacKenzie Scott Announces $7B of Charitable Giving This Year (nytimes.com)

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A Fentanyl Vaccine Is About to Get Its First Major Test (wired.com)

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Humans made fire 350k years earlier than previously thought, discovery suggests (theguardian.com)

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Twins reared apart do not exist (davidbessis.substack.com)

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Authors retract Nature paper projecting high costs of climate change (retractionwatch.com)

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All 187,460 Miles of Road That Led to Rome, Mapped (nytimes.com)

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201 Stories by Anton Chekhov (archive.org)

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The Ethyl-Poisoned Earth (damninteresting.com)

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The San José–The 'Holy Grail' of Shipwrecks–Just Yielded Its First Treasure (popularmechanics.com)

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FDA to probe whether adult deaths linked to coronavirus vaccine (washingtonpost.com)

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Why AI reading science fiction could be a problem (transformernews.ai)

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The Married Scientists Torn Apart by a Covid Bioweapon Theory (nytimes.com)

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Millions of children and teens lose access to social media accounts in Australia (theguardian.com)

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A 101-year-old runs the largest nutcracker museum in the U.S. (npr.org)

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Ten people who helped shape science in 2025 (nature.com)

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Putin Wanted AI Supremacy. Now Russia Is Struggling to Stay in the Race (wsj.com)

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Cold Case Inquiries Stall After Ancestry.com Revisits Policy for Users (nytimes.com)

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The Area 51 of New England (nytimes.com)

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Get Ready, America: Here Come China's Food and Drink Chains (nytimes.com)

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Kimchi dietary intervention modulates human antigen-presenting and CD4T cells (nature.com)

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Saudi Arabia Will Sell You Alcohol Now, If You're Rich Enough (nytimes.com)

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Dynamic Pong Wars (markodenic.tech)

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Can You Believe the Documentary You're Watching? (nytimes.com)

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I'm a Professor. A.I. Has Changed My Classroom, but Not for the Worse (nytimes.com)

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The Medical Case for Self-Driving Cars (nytimes.com)

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India's Biggest Airline Falls into Chaos, Canceling More Than 1k Flights (nytimes.com)

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Ludwig Minelli, Founder of Swiss Assisted-Suicide Group Dignitas, Dies at 92 (nytimes.com)

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A phone call speaks to all that's wrong with American medicine (bostonglobe.com)

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Dollar-stores overcharge customers while promising low prices (theguardian.com)

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7 Deaths and hundreds of injuries are linked to faulty Abbott glucose monitors (npr.org)

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The Heist of Nearly 1/2 Ton of Its Culinary Crown Jewels Rocks French Village (nytimes.com)

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Coffee linked to slower biological ageing among those with severe mental illness (kcl.ac.uk)

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Ferrari's Formula 1 Handovers: Handovers from Surgery to Intensive Care 2008;pdf (gwern.net)

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Olga Tokarczuk Recommends Visionary Science Fiction (newyorker.com)

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The cognitive neuroscience of memory representations (sciencedirect.com)

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A Sound of Thunder (1952) [pdf] (sunysb.edu)

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How to Fix a Typewriter and Your Life (nytimes.com)

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California agencies eye BurnBot for wildfire prevention (therobotreport.com)

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What imitating an iconic robot reveals on vocal imitation in parrots&starlings (nature.com)

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'We've been eating stink bugs for over 100 years' (theguardian.com)

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When Fact-Checking Meant Something (yalereview.org)

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World Map of Emergencies (rsoe-edis.org)

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Sword swallowing and its side effects (2006) (bmj.com)

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The evidence is in: there is no language instinct (aeon.co)

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Three-year-old chess prodigy becomes youngest player to earn official rating (theguardian.com)

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Are We Getting Stupider? (newyorker.com)

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Successful endodontic treatment in humans improves glucose and lipid metabolism (springer.com)

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First English language slang dictionary (1698) (upenn.edu)

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The female crash test dummy has been a long time coming – but she isn't here yet (npr.org)

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[dupe] Rats Snatching Bats Out of the Air and Eating Them–Researchers Got It on Video (smithsonianmag.com)

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The Long, Knotty, World-Spanning Story of String (hakaimagazine.com)

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Ultrasonic device dramatically speeds harvesting of water from the air (news.mit.edu)

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Russia blocks Snapchat&Roblox, restricts Apple FaceTime, state officials say (theguardian.com)

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Meta Weighs Cuts to Its Metaverse Unit (nytimes.com)

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Random.org (random.org)

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The strangest Excel functions you'll never use (makeuseof.com)

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Travelers wear pajamas to airports in protest of government request (washingtonpost.com)

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Steve Cropper, legendary guitarist for Booker T and the MGs, dies aged 84 (theguardian.com)

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Autism should not be treated as a single condition (economist.com)

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Experimental vaccine prevents deadly allergic reactions in mice (nature.com)

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China has invented a new way to do innovation (noahpinion.blog)

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The Argument for Letting AI Burn It All Down (wired.com)

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India Orders a Tracking App to Be Installed in All Smartphones (nytimes.com)

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Our Obsession with Statistical Significance Is Ruining Science (reason.com)

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Traveling Without a Real ID? That'll Cost You $45 (nytimes.com)

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The Dying Art of Being a Bum (shagbark.substack.com)

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The History of Now (antikythera.org)

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Mixtures of dietary nutrients lessen behavioral deficits in mouse autism models (plos.org)

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DJI will end support for these drones, payloads next month (dronedj.com)

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Library of Time (libraryoftime.xyz)

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Your Face as a QR Code (swtch.com)

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Your Phone Isn't a Drug. It's a Portal to the Otherworld. (nytimes.com)

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Songs stuck in my head in the morning (docs.google.com)

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Mark Twain Shared 60 American Dishes He Missed the Most While Traveling Abroad (mymodernmet.com)

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Georgia Guidestones (wikipedia.org)

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Netflix Kills Casting from Phones (theverge.com)

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The Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley (nytimes.com)

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Big Tech Wants Direct Access to Our Brains (nytimes.com)

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Social-Media Platform Strava Makes You Tell the Truth (nytimes.com)

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David Lerner, Mr. Fix-it of Apple Computers and Tekserve co-founder, dies at 72 (nytimes.com)

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X's move to show users' location is a great step toward online transparency (washingtonpost.com)

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Law changes could soon bring balcony solar to millions across US (theguardian.com)

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The Undermining of the CDC (newyorker.com)

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Parkrun is an unwitting British public-health success (economist.com)