Articles by littlexsparkee
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Tesla wants to increase emissions near a Bay Area elementary school (sfgate.com)

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The Fish Farming Industry's Dirty Secrets (nytimes.com)

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Frisco Was a Welcoming Place for Indian Immigrants. Then Came the Influencers (texasmonthly.com)

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Rogue Pilots Are a Growing Safety Threat–and No One Knows How to Stop Them (wsj.com)

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How the Billions from the Opioid Settlement Are Being Spent (newyorker.com)

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San Francisco hits pause on data centers (sfstandard.com)

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This Silicon Valley campus was a paradise. Bulldoze it (sfstandard.com)

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European wildfires expose, detonate buried bombs and mines from past wars (cbsnews.com)

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Three quarters of Indo-Pacific coral reefs could drown as sea levels rise (oceanographicmagazine.com)

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Scientists are fixing the big fat problem with vegan cheese (hw.ac.uk)

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Older Americans leaving workforce poses challenges for AI plans (spglobal.com)

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U.S. Announces Colorado River Cuts for 3 States Amid Drought (nytimes.com)

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The Wonders of the Male Human Pelvis (nautil.us)

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California's new tire efficiency rules could save drivers $1B a year (grist.org)

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The End of the European Summer (newyorker.com)

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The Live Shopping App Where Some People Bid Until They're Broke (wsj.com)

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AI productivity gains drive net CO₂ increase in global energy–economy model (nature.com)

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What's the Value of an Hour? (newyorker.com)

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Fossils show carbon emissions harm forests, not 'green the planet' (theguardian.com)

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SF exempted 1900 parcels from a housing law. YIMBYs are suing city to reverse it (sfchronicle.com)

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Ukraine's farmers despair as Russia's Black Sea blockade traps their harvest (reuters.com)

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The spatial distr. of the U.S. childfree population: Does state context matter? (plos.org)

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Almost nowhere in California is building enough, according to the state (calmatters.org)

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In the US, one in seven leisurely moments comes with guilt (bps.org.uk)

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More Young College Graduates Are Living at Home. Is That a Bad Thing? (nytimes.com)

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Are You a Human? (newyorker.com)

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El Niño could push 50M people into acute hunger before end of next year (theguardian.com)

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Wildfire-Driven Deforestation Rates in California Among Highest in World (ucdavis.edu)

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Accelerating biomass loss from forest disturbances across Europe (nature.com)

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No one can afford to make Myst games anymore (wired.com)

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Month on Vegan Diet Shifts Epigenetic Patterns Assoc with Aging and Inflammation (ucsd.edu)

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A heat spike in March ruined pistachio pollination, decimating crops (fresnobee.com)

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The Future, Made in China (newyorker.com)

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Britain's Hikikomori (dispatch-media.com)

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Why Is Europe Burning? (newyorker.com)

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Climate Change Is Moving Mountains (theatlantic.com)

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The end of roommates? Why young San Franciscans aren't living with each other (sfchronicle.com)

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How to Survive an Infestation of Toxic Caterpillars (newyorker.com)

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Apple's New Upgrade Program Is a Trap (theatlantic.com)

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What Silicon Valley gets wrong about AI (sfstandard.com)

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Arizona's Declining Groundwater (nasa.gov)

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Strait of Hormuz closure may trigger a bioinvasion super-spreader event (springer.com)

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Equities surpass real estate as top US wealth driver for first time since WW2 (reuters.com)

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Underwater oxygen loss threatens earth's stability, researchers warn (ucsd.edu)

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A Two-Person Startup Has Fixed One of the Most Hated Sounds in Modern Life (wired.com)

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El Niño May Push Global Warming to 2C or Higher in the Short Term (bloomberg.com)

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Trump may need to allow CN minerals as US industry struggles to hit '27 deadline (reuters.com)

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California's economy isn't just bigger than TX and FL – it's growing faster, too (ca.gov)

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Net zero could put global temperatures on a long, slow decline (salatainstitute.harvard.edu)

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America's Big Cities Are Rapidly Losing Kids (wsj.com)

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Carbon footprint of metal production could be >10 times higher than estimated (phys.org)

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Who Gets Saved in the New West? (playboy.com)

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2026 western US snow drought was about 4x more likely due to climate change (pnas.org)

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Recent Modeling Systematically Underestimates Warming from IMO2020 Shipping Regs (copernicus.org)

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Central Valley farmers reluctantly turn to solar as water supplies dry up (latimes.com)

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US Study Finds 1/3 Without CHD Miss New Cholesterol Goals, 75% Go Untreated (massgeneralbrigham.org)

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The Great Barrier Reef is changing. Why isn't it on UNESCO's 'in danger' list? (unsw.edu.au)

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AI Could Shrink Income Tax Revenue and Threaten Economies (bloomberg.com)

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One Man's Quest to Fix Every Deadly Guardrail (newyorker.com)

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Chunk of sea ice has not refrozen in West Antarctica, satellite images show (abcnews.com)

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The Voice of Google (newyorker.com)

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What I got wrong about FIRE (businessinsider.com)

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How to Abandon Your Climate Commitments and Get Away with It (nytimes.com)

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Dave Eggers told OpenAI staff that ChatGPT was 'silencing a generation' (theverge.com)

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Engineered Enzyme Reverses Age-Related Protein Damage (lifespan.io)

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Supplement that binds to microplastics may remove them from our body (newscientist.com)

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Common diet tips about water intake and spicy foods could be dead wrong (cornell.edu)

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More than 100 homes destroyed in Norway fire (reuters.com)

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Will U.S. Households Still Buy Heat Pumps Without a Tax Credit? (energyathaas.wordpress.com)

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The Aral Sea isn't just an ecological nightmare – it's a carbon bomb (grist.org)

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As Blazes Spread Near Paris, Extreme Heat Is Changing How France Fights Fires (nytimes.com)

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The Best Running Shoes You Can't Get Your Hands On (theatlantic.com)

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Barefoot shoes are trendy after years of mockery. Do they work? (slate.com)

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Canada's Forests Will Burn and Burn (theatlantic.com)

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A Chemical from Car Tires May Be Linked to Alzheimer's, New Study Suggests (vice.com)

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Weather App Could Soon Develop Blind Spots (bloomberg.com)

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How A Gang of Thieves Pulled Off a Multimillion-Dollar Data Center Heist (nytimes.com)

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A Stranger Used One Text Message to Steal My Digital Life (time.com)

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The Americans Striking It Rich in the Data-Center Buildout (msn.com)

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Tropical forests facing increasing risks of exposure to critical temp thresholds (pnas.org)

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New Research Indicates That in Future, Trees May Store Less Carbon Than Expected (columbia.edu)

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The Iran War threatened a food crisis. The next Gulf conflict could do the same (reuters.com)

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Do Different GenAI Tools Provide Different Financial Recommendations? (financialplanningassociation.org)

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OpenAI, Anthropic Employees Could Buy ~1/3 of All Homes in SF with IPO Earnings (redfin.com)

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CO2 overload in blood suggests potentially toxic atmosphere within 50 years (springer.com)

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Why Do Some Soccer Players Cut the Heels Off Their Cleats? (wired.com)

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Surgeons face higher infertility rates. UC may make it even harder to have kids (sfstandard.com)

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WTF is happening with Earth's Energy Imbalance? (thetradeoff.substack.com)

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Silicon Valley Wants to Save You from AI Layoffs (theatlantic.com)

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Pets can suffer heatstroke even when resting, UK vets warn (theguardian.com)

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Alcohol consumption doubled in north Russian regions (thebarentsobserver.com)

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The government wants to scare Americans out of sharing the news (freedom.press)

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Too Old for Silicon Valley? Think Again. AI Is Changing the Math (kqed.org)

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Metamorphic sulfur release as a driver of sustained cooling and mass extinction (science.org)

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Should we spray burn scars with glyphosate? Californians reckon w/ grim reality (latimes.com)

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Venture investment smashes an annual record with half a year left to go (sfexaminer.com)

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Syria's solar boom is redefining Middle East's energy model (thenationalnews.com)

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Data Centers Are Quietly Taking over Texas. The Pollution Could Be Catastrophic (wired.com)

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Farmland Atlas: where the land will still be worth farming in the future (farmlandatlas.com)

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Energy Department wants to weaken efficiency standards for home appliances (washingtonpost.com)