Articles by mhb
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Google Guys Say Bye to California (nytimes.com)

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Anecdote Origin: Knowing Where to Tap (quoteinvestigator.com)

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Why Fentanyl Deaths Are Falling (thefp.com)

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California adds hundreds in hidden fees to drive up traffic tickets (cbsnews.com)

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Flying Is Better Than in the Good Old Days, No Matter How Those Old Photos Look (reason.com)

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Relax, Microplastics Aren't Killing You (thefp.com)

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Suicides Were Frequent at the Golden Gate Bridge. Not Anymore (nytimes.com)

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Magnetic nanoparticles fight bone cancer and help healing (sciencedaily.com)

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Autistic Barbie sparks debate over what representation should look like (usatoday.com)

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Josh Shapiro Writes That Harris Team Asked If He Had Ever Been an Israeli Agent (nytimes.com)

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Why Can't New York Get Rid of 2-Person Subway Crews? (reason.com)

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One can mock the righteous, but Google won't index it (greenspun.com)

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The Iranian Regime Is Stronger Than We Think (thefp.com)

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The Fight to Keep Iran Online (nytimes.com)

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How children lost the right to roam in four generations (dailymail.co.uk)

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The Reasons New Yorkers' Groceries Cost So Much (vitalcitynyc.org)

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Mathematical Puzzles [pdf] (dartmouth.edu)

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Device that may be tied to "Havana Syndrome" obtained by U.S. government (cbsnews.com)

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The Killing Fields of Tehran (thefp.com)

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Trump urges Tehran to show protesters humanity amid reports of rising death toll (apnews.com)

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The Double Standard in the Human-Rights World (theatlantic.com)

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Former NY mayor Eric Adams now a crypto entrepreneur – 'NYC Token' details vague (msn.com)

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Iranians describe heavy security and scattered damage in calls to outside world (apnews.com)

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Contra Dance as a Model for Post-AI Culture (jefftk.com)

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The Left's Deafening Silence on Iran (thefp.com)

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Non-Essential French Embassy Staff Have Left Iran (barrons.com)

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UN chief 'shocked' by reports of excessive force against protesters in Iran (ungeneva.org)

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Former Google CEO plans to singlehandedly fund a Hubble telescope replacement (arstechnica.com)

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U.S. airstrikes hit ISIS targets in Syria, officials say (cbsnews.com)

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Iran protests rage for another night; Deaths mount; Trump warns of intervention (cbsnews.com)

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Internet, phone lines cut as thousands rally in Tehran; death toll at 45 (timesofisrael.com)

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Iran leans into anti-Western bluster as it tries to quell deadly protests (cbsnews.com)

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Maine company in the spotlight after Maduro apparently wore one of their hoodies (boston.com)

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The Tyranny of the Complainers (marginalrevolution.com)

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Mobileye acquires humanoid robot startup Mentee Robotics for $900M (techcrunch.com)

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Doing the Most Difficult Job (As a Woman) at −64°C Yakutsk, Siberia (youtube.com)

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How Katie Herzog drank her way to sobriety (wbur.org)

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British and French warplanes strike suspected IS weapons facility in Syria (apnews.com)

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Volunteer in Iran's Revolutionary Guard reported killed during widening protests (timesofisrael.com)

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Why Did Waymos Get Stuck? Was It Crazy Humans? (forbes.com/sites/bradtempleton)

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The Struggle for Sudan (merip.org)

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Public Sans – A strong, neutral typeface (digital.gov)

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Election betting on prediction markets apps is set to boom ahead of midterms (npr.org)

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Iran developing unconventional warheads for ballistic missiles, sources say (iranintl.com)

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High school student discovers 1.5M potential new astronomical objects (smithsonianmag.com)

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Nearly 1 in 4 Americans think they have a personal social security account (cato.org)

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How police tracked down the Brown University shooter (providencejournal.com)

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Power restored to about 110k San Francisco customers after widespread outage (cbsnews.com)

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Seattle's Delivery Minimum Wage Failed Drivers and Raised Costs (reason.com)

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DraftKings hopes to score big with new prediction markets app (cbsnews.com)

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Laws That Do Harm (1982) (hoover.org)

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Rare look inside the secret Lego Museum (cbsnews.com)

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Why Are 50k New York City Apartments Vacant? (city-journal.org)

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Trump signs executive order to reclassify marijuana as a Schedule III drug (cbsnews.com)

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[flagged] At least $9B billed across 14 Medicaid services in Minnesota may be fraudulent (cbsnews.com)

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U.S. strikes ISIS targets in Syria, after 2 soldiers and interpreter were killed (cbsnews.com)

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Pelosi Resisted Stock-Trading Ban as Wealth Grew, Fueling Suspicion (nytimes.com)

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Harms of the Current Global Anti-Female Gential Mutilation Campaign (bmj.com)

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K-12 National staffing and enrollment trends (edunomicslab.org)

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Suspect in Brown University Shooting Is Found Dead in New Hampshire (nytimes.com)

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Hatred of Israel Caused Iran's Water Crisis (aish.com)

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Jensen Huang: Israel has become Nvidia's second home (globes.co.il)

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Extraordinary Dinosaur Fossil Site Discovered in the Hațeg Basin (scitechdaily.com)

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Killing the 'brain trust': How Israel targeted Iran's nuclear scientists (washingtonpost.com)

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Sudan tops global humanitarian crisis watchlist for third year (apnews.com)

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How America's Education System Became a Weapon Against Itself (sleuthfox.substack.com)

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The Lost Generation (compactmag.com)

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'My son is a hero': Family of man who tackled Sydney gunman (timesofisrael.com)

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Bystander tackled and disarmed one of the Sydney gunmen, video shows (nytimes.com)

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PaperTrails: Your Personal Research Library (papertrailshq.com)

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Navy, Palantir Announce $448M 'Ship OS' AI Tool for Shipbuilding and Repair (usni.org)

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Hamas hid tons of baby formula to damage Israel with starvation claims (nypost.com)

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Israeli researchers achieve new lymphoma treatment posting 100% survival rates (ynetnews.com)

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Stop Trying to Ban Teens from the Internet (thefp.com)

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First Hand Data: Experiences that changed my thinking (daviddfriedman.substack.com)

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Hamas Rejects Disarmament, Threatens Another October 7 – Media Silence (honestreporting.com)

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Tech elites are starting their own for-profit cities (ft.com)

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Colors of Growth (ssrn.com)

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Hatred of Israel Caused Iran's Water Crisis (aish.com)

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Ukrainian mathematician requests mathematical assistance (marginalrevolution.com)

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Beauty and the feast: Effect of beauty on earnings using restaurant tipping data (repec.org)

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The past was not that cute (juliawise.net)

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Ceremonial Bugle (ceremonialbugle.com)

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What would someone like me do with a tiny modular synth? [pdf] (musicthing.co.uk)

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Iran files charges against organizers after women runners flout hijab law (timesofisrael.com)

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Dotfiles Management (mitxela.com)

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Fuel Efficiency Standards Had to Be Weakened to Let Americans Buy Smaller Cars (marginalrevolution.com)

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Germany has the highest electricity prices in the developed world (wsj.com)

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Household electricity prices worldwide in 3rd quarter 2025, by country (statista.com)

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“Captain Gains” on Capitol Hill (nber.org)

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The Data on Self-Driving Cars Are Clear. We Have to Change Course (nytimes.com)

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Iranian MPs decry lack of observance of female dress code (newarab.com)

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We Are Living in a Bifurcated Economy (amitsdeepdives.substack.com)

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Researchers isolate elusive cells that may slow down aging (timesofisrael.com)

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Famine Claims in Gaza Fall Apart, Western Media Don't Even Blink (honestreporting.com)

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IDF to receive 'Iron Beam' laser interceptors at the end of the month (timesofisrael.com)

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Cartographers have been hiding illustrations inside Switzerland’s maps (2020) (aiga.org)

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A $100K Robot Dog Is Becoming Standard in Policing – and Raising Ethical Alarms (bloomberg.com)

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Trump's Sudan peace push met with skepticism: 'They don't see a reason to stop' (thehill.com)

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Testing Kirkland Roasted Seaweed Snack for Lead, Cadmium, Mercury, & Arsenic (tamararubin.com)