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Narrow tracks forcing trains to creep at walking pace on Boston's newest subway (bostonglobe.com)

2 years ago | mhb | bostonglobe.com | frontpage

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Many Wordle users cheat to win (phys.org)

2 years ago | mhb | phys.org | newest

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Letterboxd (letterboxd.com)

2 years ago | mhb | letterboxd.com | newest

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Amazon PillPack – Your medication, sorted and delivered (pillpack.com)

2 years ago | mhb | pillpack.com | best

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Ian's Shoelace Site (fieggen.com)

2 years ago | mhb | fieggen.com | best

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[flagged] We install planters so you don't have to look at homeless people (sfplanters.org)

2 years ago | mhb | sfplanters.org | newest

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Golden cape made with silk from a million spiders (theguardian.com)

2 years ago | mhb | theguardian.com | newest

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Box jellyfish demonstrate learning ability (nytimes.com)

2 years ago | mhb | nytimes.com | best

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Genetically Modified Pig’s Heart Is Transplanted into a Second Patient (nytimes.com)

2 years ago | mhb | nytimes.com | newest

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Some Shots from the Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2023 Competition (kottke.org)

2 years ago | mhb | kottke.org | newest

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Down on the Body Farm: Unlocking the Forensic Secrets of Decaying Corpses (undark.org)

2 years ago | mhb | undark.org | newest

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Timed Tests Are Biased Against Your Kids (nytimes.com)

2 years ago | mhb | nytimes.com | newest

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YouTube blocks Russell Brand from making money through its platform (nytimes.com)

2 years ago | mhb | nytimes.com | best

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Soft micro-combustion actuators unlock explosive robot motion (newatlas.com)

2 years ago | mhb | newatlas.com | newest

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Insect-sized robot is powered by tiny explosions (nature.com)

2 years ago | mhb | nature.com | newest

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Sharks on Golf Course – They Can Live in Low-Saltwater Environments Indefinitely (nytimes.com)

2 years ago | mhb | nytimes.com | frontpage

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Reverse Engineering Self-Powered Wireless Switches (hackaday.com)

2 years ago | mhb | hackaday.com | newest

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The World's Best Pizzerias (varasanos.com)

2 years ago | mhb | varasanos.com | newest

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Jeff Varasano's Famous New York Pizza Recipe (varasanos.com)

2 years ago | mhb | varasanos.com | newest

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Elon Musk Acknowledges Withholding Satellite Service to Thwart Ukrainian Attack (nytimes.com)

2 years ago | mhb | nytimes.com | frontpage

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A brief illustrated guide to ‘scissors congruence’ − an ancient geometric idea (theconversation.com)

2 years ago | mhb | theconversation.com | newest

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[flagged] Two-Thirds of College Students Think Shouting Down a Public Speaker Can Be OK (reason.com)

2 years ago | mhb | reason.com | newest

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An Animatronic Human Sculpture in Bronze and Stainless Steel (craftsmanshipmuseum.com)

2 years ago | mhb | craftsmanshipmuseum.com | newest

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The Charles Mingus CAT-Alog for Toilet Training Your Cat (charlesmingus.com)

2 years ago | mhb | charlesmingus.com | newest

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Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond? (1982) (theatlantic.com)

2 years ago | mhb | theatlantic.com | frontpage

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Using the Interstate Commerce Clause to Restrict Intrastate Commerce (wikipedia.org)

2 years ago | mhb | wikipedia.org | newest

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Can plastic recycling ever work? (nytimes.com)

2 years ago | mhb | nytimes.com | best

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The Hardest Ticket at the U.S. Open? Ball Person (nytimes.com)

2 years ago | mhb | nytimes.com | newest

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Seen from Close-Up: How the U.S. Open Dials in Its Court Speed (nytimes.com)

2 years ago | mhb | nytimes.com | newest

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'Asteroid City' Production Designer Creates the Worlds of Wes Anderson [video] (youtube.com)

2 years ago | mhb | youtube.com | newest

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The Hunt for the Giant Squid (2004) (newyorker.com)

2 years ago | mhb | newyorker.com | frontpage

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California DMV Tells Cruise to Halve Its Fleet in SF (sfist.com)

2 years ago | mhb | sfist.com | newest

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Production, Construction, Installation and Maintenance of Wind Turbines [video] (youtube.com)

2 years ago | mhb | youtube.com | newest

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Netflix Says You Can Keep Their DVDs (and Request More, Too) (nytimes.com)

2 years ago | mhb | nytimes.com | frontpage

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Web scraping for me, but not for thee (ericgoldman.org)

2 years ago | mhb | ericgoldman.org | best

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[dupe] Wagner’s Yevgeniy Prigozhin believed to be aboard crashed plane in Russia (washingtonpost.com)

2 years ago | mhb | washingtonpost.com | frontpage

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I Made a Keyboard Out of Drums (youtube.com)

2 years ago | mhb | youtube.com | newest

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Can’t Hear the Dialogue in Your Streaming Show? You’re Not Alone (nytimes.com)

2 years ago | mhb | nytimes.com | newest

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Artificial intelligence could help us talk to animals (snexplores.org)

2 years ago | mhb | snexplores.org | newest

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Cruise Robotaxi Drives into Wet Concrete; Waymo Shows Off Same Route (forbes.com/sites/bradtempleton)

2 years ago | mhb | forbes.com | newest

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Revolutionary implants can restore 20/20 vision to blind and visually-impaired (thebrighterside.news)

2 years ago | mhb | thebrighterside.news | newest

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Could perfume be our secret weapon in the war on mosquitoes? (gatesnotes.com)

2 years ago | mhb | gatesnotes.com | newest

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Two Students Unravel a Widely Believed Math Conjecture (quantamagazine.org)

2 years ago | mhb | quantamagazine.org | newest

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Turn Your Demanding Child into a Productive Co-Worker (nytimes.com)

2 years ago | mhb | nytimes.com | newest

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Cruise, Waymo given green light for robo-taxis across San Francisco (missionlocal.org)

2 years ago | mhb | missionlocal.org | newest

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Poka-Yoke (ポカヨケ) – Mistake-Proofing (wikipedia.org)

2 years ago | mhb | wikipedia.org | newest

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[flagged] She invited four people over for lunch. A week later, three were dead (washingtonpost.com)

2 years ago | mhb | washingtonpost.com | best

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Deconstructing Urbit: The Politics of Software as Infrastructure [pdf] (lachlankermode.com)

2 years ago | mhb | lachlankermode.com | newest

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Developers are building communities that act as their own miniature power grids (nytimes.com)

2 years ago | mhb | nytimes.com | best

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The Charles Mingus CAT-Alog for Toilet Training Your Cat (charlesmingus.com)

2 years ago | mhb | charlesmingus.com | newest

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Social Mobility: Driving System Change in Gig Economy Through Worker Ownership [pdf] (static1.squarespace.com)

2 years ago | mhb | squarespace.com | newest

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How much money do doctors make and why is it such a lot? (washingtonpost.com)

2 years ago | mhb | washingtonpost.com | newest

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Studying the Limits of Human Perfection, Through Darts (nytimes.com)

2 years ago | mhb | nytimes.com | newest

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Claimed Room-Temperature Superconductor Revealed to Be Diamagnetic Semiconductor (fagenwasanni.com)

2 years ago | mhb | fagenwasanni.com | newest

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A practical guide for highly-skilled immigrants to thrive in the United States (marginalrevolution.com)

2 years ago | mhb | marginalrevolution.com | newest

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New studies gauge impact and cause of beech leaf disease (science.org)

2 years ago | mhb | science.org | frontpage

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The FDA Is Increasing Skin Cancer (marginalrevolution.com)

2 years ago | mhb | marginalrevolution.com | newest

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How to Build a Supersonic Trebuchet [video] (youtube.com)

2 years ago | mhb | youtube.com | frontpage

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The Dutch Pinball Museum in Rotterdam (greenspun.com)

2 years ago | mhb | greenspun.com | newest

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Balcony Power Plant (schuetzesolutions.com)

2 years ago | mhb | schuetzesolutions.com | frontpage

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Compilation of Known LK-99 Replication Attempt Claims (spacebattles.com)

2 years ago | mhb | spacebattles.com | best

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Compilation of Known Replication Attempt Claims (spacebattles.com)

2 years ago | mhb | spacebattles.com | newest

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Korea Superconductor Papers Published ‘Without Consent’ (asiafinancial.com)

2 years ago | mhb | asiafinancial.com | best

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Elon Musk’s Unmatched Power in the Stars (nytimes.com)

2 years ago | mhb | nytimes.com | frontpage

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SAT's Predictive Power Is Underestimated Because of Range Restriction (freddiedeboer.substack.com)

2 years ago | mhb | substack.com | newest

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Will first independent replication attempt confirm superconductivity in LK-99? (metaculus.com)

2 years ago | mhb | metaculus.com | newest

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Unitree Go2 – Quadruped Robot of Embodied AI from $1600 (youtube.com)

2 years ago | mhb | youtube.com | newest

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The Sad Demise of Dan Ariely (twitter.com/remylevin)

2 years ago | mhb | twitter.com | newest

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The Complete, Surprising Eight Year History of Lego's Poop Piece (kotaku.com)

2 years ago | mhb | kotaku.com | frontpage

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Ten Notes on the End of Affirmative Action (colemanhughes.substack.com)

2 years ago | mhb | substack.com | frontpage

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Whole Brain Emulation: No Progress on C. Elegans After 10 Years (lesswrong.com)

2 years ago | mhb | lesswrong.com | newest

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I’m a Flight Dispatcher, AMA (reddit.com)

2 years ago | mhb | reddit.com | newest

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NYC rules for coal-, wood-fired pizzerias – must cut carbon emissions up to 75% (nypost.com)

2 years ago | mhb | nypost.com | newest

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When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do? (quoteinvestigator.com)

2 years ago | mhb | quoteinvestigator.com | best

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A Giant Wind Farm Is Taking Root Off Massachusetts (nytimes.com)

2 years ago | mhb | nytimes.com | frontpage

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Wavelight Track Pacing Lights Were Developed by a Former Pacer (nytimes.com)

2 years ago | mhb | nytimes.com | newest

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Henry Petroski, Whose Books Decoded Engineering, Dies at 81 (nytimes.com)

2 years ago | mhb | nytimes.com | newest

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Did Bengio and Tegmark lose a debate about AI x-risk against LeCun and Mitchell? (lesswrong.com)

2 years ago | mhb | lesswrong.com | newest

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New Study Bolsters Room-Temperature Superconductor Claim (nytimes.com)

2 years ago | mhb | nytimes.com | frontpage

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Don't Shame the Oceangate Crew for Taking Huge Risks (reason.com)

2 years ago | mhb | reason.com | newest

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The Secret in the Spots on Monarch Butterflies’ Wings (nytimes.com)

2 years ago | mhb | nytimes.com | newest

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Don't Shame the OceanGate Crew for Taking Risks (reason.com)

2 years ago | mhb | reason.com | newest

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Free Organ (organclearinghouse.com)

2 years ago | mhb | organclearinghouse.com | best

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Boeing 777 Wing Test (youtube.com)

2 years ago | mhb | youtube.com | newest

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Missing Submersible – Vessel Disappears During Dive to the Titanic Wreck Site (nytimes.com)

2 years ago | mhb | nytimes.com | newest

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Safari Surprises (marginalrevolution.com)

2 years ago | mhb | marginalrevolution.com | newest

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Arnold Schwarzenegger confirms he wants to run for US president (thehill.com)

2 years ago | mhb | thehill.com | frontpage

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Evidence Suggests Russia Blew Up Kakhovka Dam from Within (nytimes.com)

2 years ago | mhb | nytimes.com | frontpage

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Cash-strapped Taliban selling tickets to ruins of Buddhas it blew up (washingtonpost.com)

2 years ago | mhb | washingtonpost.com | newest

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14-year-old hired by SpaceX is too young for LinkedIn, has account restricted (businessinsider.com)

2 years ago | mhb | businessinsider.com | newest

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A crocodile in Costa Rica had a virgin birth. Here’s what that means (cnn.com)

2 years ago | mhb | cnn.com | newest

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Trying to get recognition for a group of self-taught “outsider architects.” (nytimes.com)

2 years ago | mhb | nytimes.com | newest

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Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s Former Leader, Is Arrested in Financial Inquiry (nytimes.com)

2 years ago | mhb | nytimes.com | newest

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Cosmic Luck: NASA’s Apollo 11 Moon Quarantine Was Planetary Security Theater

2 years ago | mhb | ycombinator.com | newest

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Bridge Circuits [pdf] (analog.com)

2 years ago | mhb | analog.com | newest

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Researchers build bee robot that can twist (wsu.edu)

2 years ago | mhb | wsu.edu | newest

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Detection of a Single Sick Individual Using Wastewater Surveillance (marginalrevolution.com)

2 years ago | mhb | marginalrevolution.com | newest

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Drug Pricing Restrictions: Oh Joy (science.org)

2 years ago | mhb | science.org | newest

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An open source design for turban-wearing motorcyclists (toughturban.com)

2 years ago | mhb | toughturban.com | newest

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[flagged] Nearly 30% of people under 30 support gov't surveillance cameras in every home (cato.org)

2 years ago | mhb | cato.org | frontpage