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Playing the piano boosts brain processing power: study (bath.ac.uk)

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$10B Webb Telescope has been struck 14 times by space rocks, says NASA (forbes.com/sites/jamiecartereurope)

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New energy storage technologies hold key to renewable transition (ft.com)

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‘Magic doesn’t pay the bills’: Walt Disney World workers march near park (deadline.com)

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Musk praised as 'The bravest, most creative person on the planet' by Hastings (deadline.com)

2 days ago | hhs | deadline.com | frontpage

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Scientists discover secret to waking up alert and refreshed (news.berkeley.edu)

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Physicists observe wormhole dynamics using a quantum computer (caltech.edu)

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Tesla EV battery packs repurposed into energy storage systems in Finland and CA (energy-storage.news)

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Canada geese beat humans in longstanding territory battle: study (illinois.edu)

3 days ago | hhs | illinois.edu | best

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Why eBooks wear out faster than everyday paper books (lifewire.com)

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Twitter is taking on YouTube and Substack (bgr.com)

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Quantum computing: the first radical shift in computing since the 1950s (barrons.com)

6 days ago | hhs | barrons.com | newest

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Investor Howard Marks: ‘The short run is by far the least important thing’ (ft.com)

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Simulations using a quantum computer show the technology’s current limits (aps.org)

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Max Planck and how the dramatic birth of quantum physics changed the world (bigthink.com)

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Wine-loving France gets a taste for the alcohol-free (reuters.com)

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The return of Humpty Dumpty: who is the ultimate arbiter of meaning? (oup.com)

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Voltaire and the one-liner (2017) (oup.com)

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First active chemistry on an exoplanet revealed by Webb telescope (nature.com)

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Why have late-night talk show ratings collapsed? (bigthink.com)

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Truth Social and Parler in limbo as Elon Musk forges ahead (axios.com)

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Why Visa and Mastercard have yet to face their Kodak moment (ft.com)

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The struggle to find the origins of time (astronomy.com)

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The ever-expanding job of preserving the internet’s backpages (ft.com)

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Digging 10 miles underground could yield enough geothermal energy to power Earth (interestingengineering.com)

a week ago | hhs | interestingengineering.com | best

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How network effects explain the future of Twitter (2015) (theweek.com)

a week ago | hhs | theweek.com | frontpage

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Stanford Law School will not participate in US News law school ranking (stanford.edu)

2 weeks ago | hhs | stanford.edu | frontpage

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Time to curb the data brokers (nature.com)

2 weeks ago | hhs | nature.com | frontpage

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‘Deep geothermal’ promises to let drillers go deeper, faster and hotter (wsj.com)

2 weeks ago | hhs | wsj.com | frontpage

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Al Gore’s new tool can zoom in on the biggest polluters in your town (gizmodo.com)

2 weeks ago | hhs | gizmodo.com | frontpage

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Floating solar panels that track the Sun (bbc.com)

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Coinbase’s Brian Armstrong: ‘I’m just as bullish on crypto as ever’ (ft.com)

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Fact–value distinction (wikipedia.org)

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Daily Wire says streaming service has surpassed 1M subscribers (axios.com)

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The Daily Wire lines up series adaptation of Ayn Rand’s novel ‘Atlas Shrugged’ (deadline.com)

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Philogelos (wikipedia.org)

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Electric car drivers in the UK must pay tax from 2025 (bbc.com)

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America may not be ready for the looming tsunami of deepfakes (rand.org)

2 weeks ago | hhs | rand.org | frontpage

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Peter Thiel, Leader of the Rebel Alliance (hoover.org)

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Why Yale Law School is leaving the U.S. News & World Report rankings (yale.edu)

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What’s a way to deal with a flood of misinformation? Some deliberate ignorance (niemanlab.org)

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I may be older, but I’m not necessarily wiser (wsj.com)

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Why Mark Wahlberg wakes up at 3:30 a.m. (wsj.com)

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London loses position as most valuable European stock market (bbc.com)

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Buildings are banning e-bikes amid deadly battery fires (axios.com)

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The mortgage time bomb ticking beneath Poland’s banks (ft.com)

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Data in the court (law.harvard.edu)

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Reuters fails to escape antitrust claims in copyright battle (bloomberglaw.com)

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What is time? The mysterious essence of the fourth dimension (newscientist.com)

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Quantum trick sees light move forwards and back in time simultaneously (newscientist.com)

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The scandalous history of America’s newest media baron (foreignpolicy.com)

2 weeks ago | hhs | foreignpolicy.com | newest

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How to win prizes and influence TV: HBO turns 50 (economist.com)

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Axel Springer’s Mathias Döpfner wants to be a press baron, part Murdoch & Musk (nymag.com)

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Rupert Murdoch is having the same problem Dr. Frankenstein once faced (theintercept.com)

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Online sports-betting apps face customer complaints over withdrawing funds (wsj.com)

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New theory of electron spin to aid quantum devices (caltech.edu)

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Enron whistleblower shares lessons of scandal at Omaha event (omaha.com)

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How datasets and nature apps are expanding our ecological attention span (longnow.org)

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How Australia became the world’s greatest lithium supplier (bbc.com)

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How the FCC shields cellphone companies from safety concerns (propublica.org)

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Bosch, IBM join forces to seek substitute critical minerals (reuters.com)

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Octopuses caught on camera throwing things at each other (nature.com)

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Dialing 411 is soon to be a thing of the past (bloomberg.com)

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Inside the wild subculture of traders who bet on elections (fastcompany.com)

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Humanoid robots are getting close to reality (economist.com)

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50 years later, Burton Malkiel hasn’t changed his views on indexing (wsj.com)

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The data liberation project (data-liberation-project.org)

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The Year 4338: Petersburg Letters (wikipedia.org)

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Gannett prints fake newspapers at Des Moines Register plant (bleedingheartland.com)

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Economists see recession coming, so maybe it’s not (ft.com)

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Gap sells its China business after 12 years (wsj.com)

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OpenSea plans to enforce NFT royalties on-chain, strong-arming debate (axios.com)

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Writing the revolution: Wikipedia and the online battle over facts (ft.com)

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Our brains 'time-stamp' sounds to process the words we hear (nyu.edu)

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Peloton founders launch new retail startup focused on custom rugs (axios.com)

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Keep ’em coming: Why your first ideas aren’t always the best (stanford.edu)

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Medibank says hacker accessed data of 9.7M customers, refuses to pay ransom (reuters.com)

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Why I’m giving electric cars a second chance (spectator.co.uk)

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Paul Allen’s quest for sunken warships (wsj.com)

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The dream of resale royalties in the art world (axios.com)

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The MacNeil/Lehrer report: Computer crime (1979) (americanarchive.org)

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Some Snapchat users could be owed money in a $35M settlement (foxbusiness.com)

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McKinsey is a consulting powerhouse. But is it a force for good? (nytimes.com)

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HBO cancels ‘Westworld’ in shock decision (hollywoodreporter.com)

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How much impact do boycotts and buycotts actually have on brand sales? (informs.org)

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US adds 261,000 jobs in continued sign of robust labour market (ft.com)

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Ark's Cathie Wood is betting Elon Musk will turn Twitter into a 'super app' (cnbc.com)

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Bank of England raises key interest rate by 0.75 point (wsj.com)

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Puck, channeling the charm of magazines past, nears 200,000 subscribers (adweek.com)

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Disney's America (wikipedia.org)

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Do you speak extra-terrestrial? (st-andrews.ac.uk)

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Miami’s first supertall tower breaks ground (wsj.com)

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How will we remember the age of cheap money? (ft.com)

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Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is working on a Twitter rival (slashgear.com)

a month ago | hhs | slashgear.com | frontpage

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Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is working on a Twitter rival (slashbeats.com)

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Laws barring noncompete clauses spreading (businessinsurance.com)

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Tesla plans mass production start for Cybertruck at end of 2023 (reuters.com)

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Arizona Senate race: Libertarian candidate drops out, endorses Blake Masters (foxnews.com)

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Fox sees Q1 revenue surge on political ads, Fox Nation subscriptions (variety.com)

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Open access, interoperability, and DTCC’s unexpected path to monopoly (yalelawjournal.org)

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