Articles by wallflower
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He set out to walk around the world. After 27 years, his quest is nearly over (washingtonpost.com)

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Cliff Young (Athlete) (wikipedia.org)

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Indie, alone, and figuring it out (danijelavrzan.com)

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Can the Golden Age of Costco Last? (newyorker.com)

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The Downfall of a Great American Airplane Company: Insider's Perspective (2003) (airliners.net)

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The Techno Optimist's Guide to Futureproofing Your Child (nymag.com)

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YouTube Just Ate TV. It's Only Getting Started (hollywoodreporter.com)

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Acing technical interviews – part one (2019) (mikemroczka.com)

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Addictive-like behavioural traits in pet dogs with extreme motivation for toys (nature.com)

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It's just a virus, the E.R. told him – days later, he was dead (nytimes.com)

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The Garage Is the New Porch (nytimes.com)

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Scientists shoot lasers into brain cells to uncover how illusions work (alleninstitute.org)

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Strengthening nucleic acid biosecurity against generative protein design tools (science.org)

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JackTrip: Multi-machine audio network performance over the Internet (github.com/jacktrip)

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I forced myself to spend a week in Instagram instead of Xcode (pixelpusher.club)

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ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2025 winners (rmg.co.uk)

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Four-year wedding crasher mystery solved (theguardian.com)

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OK Go Impulse Purchase Production File (blender.org)

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The Millionaire Who Left Wall Street to Become a Paramedic (nytimes.com)

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How to Access Retirement Funds Early (madfientist.com)

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Chemists show how RNA might have started to make proteins on early Earth (phys.org)

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The $7M project to save Frank Lloyd Wright's iconic masterpiece (msn.com)

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A Ritzy L.A. Enclave Learned a Bitter Lesson About the Limits of Its Wealth (nytimes.com)

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ClickOps Is a Disgrace (thenewstack.io)

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The $10k Job Search: Career Coaching, LinkedIn Fees, Résumé Help (wsj.com)

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Nuclear reactors fit on a flatbed truck. How safe are they? (washingtonpost.com)

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A Voyage to Bring Norway's Lighthouses into the 21st Century (nytimes.com)

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Financial lessons from my family's experience with long-term care insurance (whitecoatinvestor.com)

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At 10 years old, Ethereum's future is brighter than ever despite recent setbacks (cnbc.com)

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What it's like to live in the Bay Area neighborhood that's aging the fastest (sfchronicle.com)

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How to Create Luck (2020) (swyx.io)

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He Rewrote Everything in Rust – Then We Got Fired (medium.com/threadsafediaries)

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Taste Is the New Intelligence (wildbarethoughts.com)

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Japan Adventures: A Designer's Perspective (tombihn.com)

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The New York Dating Economy (menofny.com)

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Sole Survivor (2013) [video] (youtube.com)

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I Built AteIQ in a Week (and Why I'm Glad I Did) (stphndxn.com)

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What Happens When Teachers Are Replaced with AI? This School Is Finding Out (newsweek.com)

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Spanish Shipwreck Reveals Evidence of Earliest Known Pet Cats to Arrive in US (smithsonianmag.com)

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A Texan who built an empire of ecstasy (texasmonthly.com)

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Earthquake could sink parts of Pacific Northwest coast within minutes (sfgate.com)

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Tech workers are leaving notes in robot taxis seeking workers and lovers (washingtonpost.com)

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A Secretive Gambler Called 'The Joker' Took Down the Texas Lottery (wsj.com)

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The corporate quest to make better toilet paper (washingtonpost.com)

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Super Rat: the record-setting rodent sniffing out landmines and saving lives (cnn.com)

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The software engineers willing to pay $10k to help them land a coding job (businessinsider.com)

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The loneliest people (and places) in America (washingtonpost.com)

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Does what you scroll burn coal? Mythbusting energy consumption on the web (bbc.com)

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The Lost Towers of the Guelph-Ghibelline Wars (exurbe.com)

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George Foreman has died (variety.com)

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How the AI Boom Created the Most Valuable Monopolies in History (bloomberg.com)

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Monster Cables picked the wrong guy to threaten (2008) (oncontracts.com)

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Highways Block Social Connection. A New Study Shows Just How Much (nextcity.org)

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Older Americans Taking Blue-Collar Jobs, White-Collar Hiring Slowdown (businessinsider.com)

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Anonymous sources: Starship will need a major rebuild after consecutive failures (behindtheblack.com)

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Can a Geothermal Startup Vaporize Rock to Drill the Deepest Holes? (msn.com)

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Loneliness in the Financial Independence, Retire Early Movement (businessinsider.com)

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Job Cuts Surge on Doge Actions, Retail Woes; Highest Monthly Since July 2020 (challengergray.com)

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The Value of Nothing: Capital versus Growth (2021) (americanaffairsjournal.org)

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Tether and Circle are battling to win the US stablecoin market (wsj.com)

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LLMs Are Weird Computers (phillipcarter.dev)

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Study of cockatoo Snowball suggests humans aren't the only ones who can dance (news.harvard.edu)

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The millionaire who lost it all and became a castaway (2024) (thehustle.co)

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Nursing Is Not the Holy Grail to Job Security (reddit.com)

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Computer Freaks: The untold history of how the internet almost didn't happen (inc.com)

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Kristen Faulkner: Finance Background Helped Her Train for the Women's World Tour [video] (youtube.com)

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Gig workers worked more but earned less in 2024: study (businessinsider.com)

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The Champion Who Memorized 80 Numbers in 13.5 Seconds (nytimes.com)

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First hybrid quantum supercomputer Reimei activated in Japan (interestingengineering.com)

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The art of calling out room dynamics (2024) (leadership.garden)

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Japan's Missing Post Office: Where people send letters to the dead (washingtonpost.com)

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Preventing the Collapse of Civilization – Jonathan Blow (2019) [video] (youtube.com)

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An Artist Helped Drivers with a Counterfeit Highway Sign (2023) (thedrive.com)

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A Deadly Day of Chaos at the Top of Mount Everest (2019) (gq.com)

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25 Years of The Sims Turning Players into Gods (nytimes.com)

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Tapestry (usetapestry.com)

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82,150 Gallons of Paint Later, a Blue Man Group Farewell (nytimes.com)

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The single-parent capital of America (washingtonpost.com)

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The dodo bird is extinct. This scientist says she can bring it back (washingtonpost.com)

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The Framework Next Door (elkraneo.com)

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417-megapixel Andromeda galaxy panorama took over a decade to make (petapixel.com)

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The Great Race (thegreatrace.us)

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Designing a Star Tracker for Astronaut Don Pettit to Use on the ISS (petapixel.com)

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New Glenn Mission NG-1 (blueorigin.com)

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Why the Getty Center Is the Safest Place for Art During a Fire (2019) (getty.edu)

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Colossus – The Forbin Project (1970) (archive.org)

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When will computer hardware match the human brain? (1997) [pdf] (jetpress.org)

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A Fugitive Businessman, Done in by One Law He Couldn't Dodge (nytimes.com)

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Common misconceptions about the complexity in robotics vs. AI (2024) (harimus.github.io)

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Celebrating Flutter's "Production Era" (googleblog.com)

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Syphilis had its roots in the Americas, archaeological bone study suggests (phys.org)

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Evidence that cultural groups differ in their abilities to detect fake accents (cambridge.org)

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If Humans Die Out, Octopuses Have the Chops for the Next Civilization (popularmechanics.com)

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Amazon Announces Supercomputer, New Server Powered by Homegrown AI Chips (wsj.com)

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She believed she was an FBI 'asset.' The scam drained her life's savings (washingtonpost.com)

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Student rocket group shatters amateur space record (usc.edu)

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Memento Movi (wackyneighbor.com)

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Medicare proposes covering weight-loss drugs, teeing up clash with RFK Jr (washingtonpost.com)

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Microsoft at 50: An AI Giant. A Kinder Culture. and Still Hellbent on Domination (wired.com)

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Brick Layers: The Promise of Stronger 3D Prints (hackaday.com)