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Dark Matter and Modified Gravity (tritonstation.com)

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What's Bad for Harvard Is Good for America (bloomberg.com)

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Harvard College Early Applications Drop 17% from Last Year (bloomberg.com)

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Going rate for Ivy League admission reduced from $20M to $2M (jpost.com)

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Examples of Stigler's Law (wikipedia.org)

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I obtained 800 pages of 'Diversity Faculty Recruitment Reports.' (wsj.com)

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Ivy League Backlash Draws Money, Students to Upstart University in Texas (bloomberg.com)

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Full Speed in Reverse! (tritonstation.com)

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Online Order Has Been Delivered–and It's Teeny Tiny (wsj.com)

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Harvard, Yale Warned by Top Law Firms About Antisemitism (bloomberg.com)

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M3 Max Geekbench – ST: 2943 | MT: 21084 (geekbench.com)

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Scary Fast. Apple Event – October 30 [video] (youtube.com)

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Things go mostly right or badly wrong (tritonstation.com)

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Thiel's Unicorn Success Is Awkward for Colleges (bloomberg.com)

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The U.S. Military’s Weighty Challenge: ‘Skinny-Fat’ Recruits (wsj.com)

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Red-State Universities Evade DEI Restrictions (city-journal.org)

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US Retailers Pare Store Locations, Hours Due to Increase in Theft (bloomberg.com)

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Recent Developments Concerning the Gravitational Potential of the Milky Way (tritonstation.com)

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Violin plots should not exist [video] (youtube.com)

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YouTube halts Russell Brand channel revenues after sexual assault allegations (cnbc.com)

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The Cosmic Distance Ladder [pdf] (ucla.edu)

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

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

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Academia's Missing Men (quillette.com)

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

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Electric Dreams (1984 Film) (wikipedia.org)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Required Dark Matter Properties (tritonstation.com)

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

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

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

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

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

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Oppenheimer Was a Communist (commentary.org)

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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)

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

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

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

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

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Removepaywall.com (removepaywall.com)

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

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Gemini PDA (planetcom.co.uk)

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

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

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

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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)

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

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

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

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

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

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China Travel Advisory (state.gov)

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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)

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

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ProPublica Misleads Its Readers (wsj.com)

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Reddit Radicalizes and Encourages Political Violence (thefederalist.com)

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The American College Crack-Up (unlocked.fm)

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

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Goodbye, Body Mass Index (bloomberg.com)

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

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

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

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

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Gerontocracy (wikipedia.org)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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)

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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)

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

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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)

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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)

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

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

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

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

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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)

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

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

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A Whole New Generation (twitter.com/paulg)

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

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