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The MIT Gender Admissions Controversy (hxstem.substack.com)

a year ago | xqcgrek2 | substack.com | newest

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Astronomers Need to Rename the Magellanic Clouds (aps.org)

a year ago | xqcgrek2 | aps.org | newest

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Academia's Missing Men (quillette.com)

a year ago | xqcgrek2 | quillette.com | frontpage

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Leaked Google spreadsheet reveals Black employees earn $20K less than whites (peopleofcolorintech.com)

a year ago | xqcgrek2 | peopleofcolorintech.com | frontpage

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Electric Dreams (1984 Film) (wikipedia.org)

a year ago | xqcgrek2 | wikipedia.org | frontpage

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Is the Milky Way’s rotation curve declining? (tritonstation.com)

a year ago | xqcgrek2 | tritonstation.com | newest

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Meritocracy, SAT Scores, and Laundering Prestige at Elite Universities [video] (youtube.com)

a year ago | xqcgrek2 | youtube.com | newest

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Ultra-Processed Foods Should Come with Warning Labels (bloomberg.com)

a year ago | xqcgrek2 | bloomberg.com | newest

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College students are struggling with basic math (apnews.com)

a year ago | xqcgrek2 | apnews.com | frontpage

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On Avi Loeb's Spherules (twitter.com/deschscoveries)

a year ago | xqcgrek2 | twitter.com | newest

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The Spider Stellar Engine: A Fully-Steerable Extraterrestrial Design [video] (youtube.com)

a year ago | xqcgrek2 | youtube.com | newest

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Surely You’re a Creep, Mr. Feynman (2019) (thebaffler.com)

a year ago | xqcgrek2 | thebaffler.com | newest

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Required Dark Matter Properties (tritonstation.com)

a year ago | xqcgrek2 | tritonstation.com | newest

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A testimony of “guilt-by-association” harassment in astronomy (hxstem.substack.com)

a year ago | xqcgrek2 | substack.com | best

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NYC Will Spend $38,000 per Pupil. What Does That Buy? (forbes.com/sites/frederickhess)

a year ago | xqcgrek2 | forbes.com | frontpage

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Campus Puritans Come for an Astronomer–and His Byline (quillette.com)

a year ago | xqcgrek2 | quillette.com | frontpage

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American stocks are at their most expensive in decades (economist.com)

a year ago | xqcgrek2 | economist.com | best

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The First Battle of the Next War [pdf] (naval.com.br)

a year ago | xqcgrek2 | naval.com.br | newest

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Oppenheimer Was a Communist (commentary.org)

a year ago | xqcgrek2 | commentary.org | frontpage

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Indian lab observes LK-99 sample standing vertically in magnetic field (facebook.com)

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[flagged] Suicide of Richard Bilkszto (thefp.com)

a year ago | xqcgrek2 | thefp.com | best

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In depth physics look at a ball being swung and released with surprising results [video] (youtube.com)

a year ago | xqcgrek2 | youtube.com | newest

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Latest driver death rates highlight dangers of muscle and small cars (iihs.org)

a year ago | xqcgrek2 | iihs.org | newest

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Checking in on troubles with dark matter (tritonstation.com)

a year ago | xqcgrek2 | tritonstation.com | frontpage

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Is NGC 1277 a problem for MOND? (tritonstation.com)

a year ago | xqcgrek2 | tritonstation.com | frontpage

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Removepaywall.com (removepaywall.com)

a year ago | xqcgrek2 | removepaywall.com | newest

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US universities need to stop elitist discrimination that Europe abandoned (bloomberg.com)

a year ago | xqcgrek2 | bloomberg.com | frontpage

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Gemini PDA (planetcom.co.uk)

a year ago | xqcgrek2 | planetcom.co.uk | newest

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WH: Humor Should Be Removed (twitter.com/noahcrothman)

a year ago | xqcgrek2 | twitter.com | newest

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Superconductor claim is making news. Here’s why experts are doubtful (science.org)

a year ago | xqcgrek2 | science.org | newest

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'Disturbing picture’: another retraction imminent for controversial physicist (nature.com)

a year ago | xqcgrek2 | nature.com | frontpage

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Enrollments to university are down and the threat to white-collar jobs is rising (bloomberg.com)

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Alien spaceship ‘could have crash-landed on Mars’ (telegraph.co.uk)

a year ago | xqcgrek2 | telegraph.co.uk | newest

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Toxic Posts on Economist Job Website Traced to Users from Elite Universities (bloomberg.com)

a year ago | xqcgrek2 | bloomberg.com | frontpage

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Toward understanding the communication in sperm whales (cell.com)

a year ago | xqcgrek2 | cell.com | frontpage

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Hottest Days Ever? Don’t Believe It (wsj.com)

a year ago | xqcgrek2 | wsj.com | frontpage

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Avi Loeb: I Think We Found Interstellar Material (newsweek.com)

a year ago | xqcgrek2 | newsweek.com | newest

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Hollywood fatigue forebodes total collapse of the box office (globaltimes.cn)

a year ago | xqcgrek2 | globaltimes.cn | frontpage

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China Travel Advisory (state.gov)

a year ago | xqcgrek2 | state.gov | frontpage

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Harvard Legacy Admissions Targeted After Supreme Court Ruling (bloomberg.com)

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[flagged] The world is watching in disbelief as France tears itself apart (telegraph.co.uk)

a year ago | xqcgrek2 | telegraph.co.uk | frontpage

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Grantham Warns AI Boom Won’t Prevent Market Bubble from Bursting (wsj.com)

a year ago | xqcgrek2 | wsj.com | frontpage

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ProPublica Misleads Its Readers (wsj.com)

a year ago | xqcgrek2 | wsj.com | frontpage

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Reddit Radicalizes and Encourages Political Violence (thefederalist.com)

a year ago | xqcgrek2 | thefederalist.com | newest

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The American College Crack-Up (unlocked.fm)

a year ago | xqcgrek2 | unlocked.fm | newest

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YouTube removes Peterson RFK interview (twitter.com/robertkennedyjr)

a year ago | xqcgrek2 | twitter.com | frontpage

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Goodbye, Body Mass Index (bloomberg.com)

a year ago | xqcgrek2 | bloomberg.com | frontpage

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Could one 2020s guided missile cruiser defeat the Japanese armada at Midway? (youtube.com)

a year ago | xqcgrek2 | youtube.com | newest

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Hate baggage fees? Wear a fishing vest on the plane (wsj.com)

a year ago | xqcgrek2 | wsj.com | frontpage

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Arrested for using Linux and encryption in France [video] (youtube.com)

a year ago | xqcgrek2 | youtube.com | best

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Trump Biden AIs debate live on Twitch with chat question responses (twitch.tv)

a year ago | xqcgrek2 | twitch.tv | newest

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Gerontocracy (wikipedia.org)

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A 27-inch display in a briefcase (liliputing.com)

a year ago | xqcgrek2 | liliputing.com | frontpage

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Sad little boys: the backlash against Britain’s boarding schools (economist.com)

a year ago | xqcgrek2 | economist.com | newest

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Get Ready for the Full-Employment Recession (wsj.com)

a year ago | xqcgrek2 | wsj.com | newest

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Conservative Americans are building a parallel economy? (economist.com)

a year ago | xqcgrek2 | economist.com | frontpage

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Global fertility is sharply declining below replacement (economist.com)

a year ago | xqcgrek2 | economist.com | newest

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Few U.S.-China flights are back despite the end of Covid (cnbc.com)

a year ago | xqcgrek2 | cnbc.com | newest

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Thought Experiment: What would humans do in a world of super-AI? (economist.com)

a year ago | xqcgrek2 | economist.com | newest

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AI-Threatened Jobs Are Mostly Held by Women, Study Shows (bloomberg.com)

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[flagged] Russia’s army is learning and improving on the battlefield (economist.com)

a year ago | xqcgrek2 | economist.com | frontpage

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San Francisco office values fall (hoover.org)

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California’s Newsom Sees Budget Deficit Deepening to $32B (bloomberg.com)

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A third of scientific papers may be fraudulent (semafor.com)

a year ago | xqcgrek2 | semafor.com | frontpage

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Berkeley scholar apologizes for claiming to be Native American her ‘whole life’ (mercurynews.com)

a year ago | xqcgrek2 | mercurynews.com | frontpage

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Cold War II: Niall Ferguson on the Emerging Conflict with China (youtube.com)

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Nordstrom to Shutter Both Downtown SF Stores, Citing Difficult Conditions (sfstandard.com)

a year ago | xqcgrek2 | sfstandard.com | frontpage

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San Francisco Whole Foods made 560 emergency calls before closing (foxbusiness.com)

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[flagged] One-third of US teen girls seriously considered attempting suicide in 2021: CDC (go.com)

a year ago | xqcgrek2 | go.com | frontpage

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Hollywood is losing the battle for China (economist.com)

a year ago | xqcgrek2 | economist.com | frontpage

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The Wealth Gap in Science: How Your Parents's Income Affects Your Career (youtube.com)

a year ago | xqcgrek2 | youtube.com | best

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America’s Educational Superpower Is Fading (bloomberg.com)

a year ago | xqcgrek2 | bloomberg.com | newest

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Where did woke ideas start to spread? (economist.com)

a year ago | xqcgrek2 | economist.com | newest

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Do looks matter for an academic career in economics? (ssrn.com)

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Leak to us or we'll dox you (twitter.com/ggreenwald)

a year ago | xqcgrek2 | twitter.com | frontpage

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NYT stealth edits away false text about Snowden (twitter.com/elonmusk)

a year ago | xqcgrek2 | twitter.com | newest

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Russia likely behind U.S. military document leak, U.S. officials say [April 8] (reuters.com)

a year ago | xqcgrek2 | reuters.com | frontpage

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A Whole New Generation (twitter.com/paulg)

a year ago | xqcgrek2 | twitter.com | newest

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AI Can Write a Song, but It Can’t Beat the Market (wsj.com)

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Project CETI (projectceti.org)

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Sapience (wikipedia.org)

a year ago | xqcgrek2 | wikipedia.org | newest

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China simulates hitting 'key targets' on Taiwan (bbc.com)

a year ago | xqcgrek2 | bbc.com | frontpage

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The Aliens Have Landed, and We Created Them (bloomberg.com)

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LGBT Grooming Conspiracy Theory (wikipedia.org)

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Chinese military rehearses encirclement of Taiwan (bbc.com)

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Pentagon Investigates More Social-Media Posts of Secret US Docs (wsj.com)

a year ago | xqcgrek2 | wsj.com | newest

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Association Between Daily Alcohol Intake and Risk of All-Cause Mortality (jamanetwork.com)

a year ago | xqcgrek2 | jamanetwork.com | frontpage

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Universities Race to Recapture Lucrative International Students (bloomberg.com)

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The Cynical Reason College Applications Are Surging (nytimes.com)

a year ago | xqcgrek2 | nytimes.com | newest

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IQ scores in the US have fallen for the first time in decades (nypost.com)

a year ago | xqcgrek2 | nypost.com | frontpage

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America and China are preparing for a war over Taiwan (economist.com)

a year ago | xqcgrek2 | economist.com | best

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Jeremy Grantham: World of Super Bubbles Has No Soft Landings (bloomberg.com)

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Ivy League Schools Sure Look Like a Cartel (bloomberg.com)

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It Turns Out Money Does Buy Happiness, at Least Up to $500k (bloomberg.com)

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Columbia University permanently drops SAT, ACT admissions requirement (nydailynews.com)

a year ago | xqcgrek2 | nydailynews.com | newest

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The Vanishing: The erasure of Jews from American life (tabletmag.com)

a year ago | xqcgrek2 | tabletmag.com | newest

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Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers (wikipedia.org)

a year ago | xqcgrek2 | wikipedia.org | newest

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Real and Fake Worlds: Why the Trains Are Failing (mikecernovich.substack.com)

a year ago | xqcgrek2 | substack.com | newest

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Ask HN: Bots for summarizing and searching complex scientific papers?

a year ago | xqcgrek2 | ycombinator.com | frontpage

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What's Going Wrong in Particle Physics? (This is why I lost faith in science.) (youtube.com)

a year ago | xqcgrek2 | youtube.com | newest