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Player Piano (Novel) (wikipedia.org)

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Immigration Is the Only Thing Propping Up California's Population (wsj.com)

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The Alienated 'Knowledge Class' Could Turn Violent (wsj.com)

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The 'Stealthy Wealthy' Who Make Their Money the Boring Way (wsj.com)

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The AI Hiring Pause Is Officially Here (bloomberg.com)

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High-res imaging system captures distant objects by lasers and reflection (aps.org)

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Dramatically improve microscope resolution with LED array and Ptychography [video] (youtube.com)

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My Month of Living Quince's Low-Cost Life of Luxury (nytimes.com)

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Call It Sour Grapes (2020) (betonit.ai)

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President Seeks Tax Hike on Wealthy Earning $2.5M or More (bloomberg.com)

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Our University's New, Reasonable Criteria for Tenure (mcsweeneys.net)

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Highest Grossing Films of 2025 (wikipedia.org)

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I Teach Computer Science, and That Is All (nytimes.com)

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The Planetary Society condemns deep, damaging 24% cut to NASA's budget (planetary.org)

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Inside Palantir's Bet on High School Grads (piratewires.com)

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Battle of Lepanto (wikipedia.org)

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Robin Hanson on the Age of AI and Large Language Models (podbean.com)

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Tiny technology – Philip Morrison's 1968 Christmas Lectures [video] (youtube.com)

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California State Bar Admits to Using AI to Develop Exam Questions (insidehighered.com)

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Food Additives Could Combine to Boost Health Threats, Study Says (wsj.com)

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The evidence for biosignatures on K2-18B is flimsy, at best (bigthink.com)

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South Asians need to exercise for 20 minutes longer per day than Europeans (gla.ac.uk)

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Republicans Debate Hiking Top Tax Rate to 40% for Millionaires (bloomberg.com)

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So you think you know Roger Penrose? Be prepared to be shocked (physicsworld.com)

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Computers and Gadgets in 1994 [video] (youtube.com)

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Empire of Illusion: Frank Dikötter on Why China Isn't a Superpower [video] (youtube.com)

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Xiaomi Car with Driver Assistance Crashes, Three Reported Dead (bloomberg.com)

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Publishers trial paying peer reviewers – what did they find? (nature.com)

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NASA's and SpaceX's Crew-9 Splashdown in Gulf of America (upi.com)

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Germany's elite research institution fails young scientists – DW Documentary [video] (youtube.com)

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Retractions, Walkouts Plague Science Journals Eager to Churn Out Research (wsj.com)

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Cat-Eared Robots Are Waiting Tables in Japan's Restaurants (bloomberg.com)

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'Extinction level' cuts coming to NASA, report says (independent.co.uk)

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Wikipedia Roiled with Internal Strife over Page Edits About the Middle East (bloomberg.com)

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The Terrorist Propaganda to Reddit Pipeline (piratewires.com)

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The Planetary Society Strongly Opposes Mass Layoffs of Employees at NASA (planetary.org)

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The Paradox of Skill (fs.blog)

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Did LIGO just see its most important gravitational wave? (bigthink.com)

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Radio astronomers find mysterious 6.5 hour pulsating source [video] (youtube.com)

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Beyond: The Astronomy Community on Bluesky (astrobites.org)

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Astronomers baffled by 'zombie star' that shouldn't exist (newscientist.com)

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Lenovo Debuts Rollable ThinkBook Laptop [video] (youtube.com)

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Measuring the growth of the stellar mass of galaxies over cosmic time (tritonstation.com)

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Azerbaijan E190 near Aktau on Dec 25th 2024, touched down off runway (avherald.com)

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Bluesky Has a Death Threat Problem (thefp.com)

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Lawsuit Reveals How Colleges Talk About Rich Applicants (wsj.com)

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[flagged] The next time Wikipedia asks for a donation, ignore it (2022) (unherd.com)

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Resignation at the Royal Society (skepticalinquirer.org)

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Autonomous Liquid Metal Finds Its Way Through Mazes [video] (youtube.com)

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The science behind winning a Nobel Prize? Being a man from a wealthy family (theguardian.com)

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Warcraft 2 gets first balance changes in 29 years (blizzard.com)

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Mysterious radio pulses traced to dance of stellar dwarfs (science.org)

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Nobel Laureate Roger Penrose admits to physically abusing his first wife (nytimes.com)

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Academe's Divorce from Reality (chronicle.com)

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The Future of Computers (March 1992) [video] (youtube.com)

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Fossils in Greece Suggest Human Ancestors Evolved in Europe, Not Africa (greekreporter.com)

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How the Ivy League Broke America (theatlantic.com)

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Massive Galaxies at High Redshift: we told you so (tritonstation.com)

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Science Is in Trouble [video] (youtube.com)

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Europe's Stocks Lag Behind US Rally by Most Since 1995 (bloomberg.com)

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Brunner's stick mantis has no males (wikipedia.org)

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Colorado voting system partial passwords accidentally posted on gov website (reuters.com)

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'Aerial arms race' with birds may have turned ancient cicadas into ace fliers (science.org)

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What 100-Year-Old Restaurant Menus Tell Us About Inflation (bloomberg.com)

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"Twitch or Terrorist?", A Game (twitchorterrorist.com)

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Letter from astronomers to FCC on SpaceX Starlink [pdf] (pirg.org)

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Dan Clancy's Twitch Is an Anti-Semitic Hellhole (danclancysucks.com)

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US Interest Burden Hits 28-Year High (bloomberg.com)

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Neal Stephenson in 2024 on Predicting the Metaverse, Crypto, & AI Decades Ahead [video] (youtube.com)

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A Mystery $30M Wave of Bets Has Moved a Popular Prediction Market (wsj.com)

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The Computer Addicts (1983) [video] (youtube.com)

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Harvard's Accreditation May Be in Jeopardy (thecrimson.com)

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Geoffrey Hinton Reacts to Physics Nobel Prize [video] (youtube.com)

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Corporate Insiders Are Sitting Out the 2024 Stock-Market Rally (wsj.com)

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[flagged] Prof Alleges "Widespread" Discriminatory Hiring Coverup at U of Washington (nas.org)

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North Korean Spies Are Infiltrating U.S. Companies Through Remote IT Jobs (wsj.com)

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SpaceX Pulls Employees from Brazil, Discourages Travel There (wsj.com)

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America resembles the dying Soviet Union (newstatesman.com)

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[flagged] Congress Should Make Universities Pay for Handing Out Useless Degrees (thefederalist.com)

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Bill Ackman Says X Ban Will Make Brazil an 'Uninvestable Market' (bloomberg.com)

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The Roots of STEM Excellence (wsj.com)

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Is it me or is Reddit becoming unusable? (reddit.com)

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What Happened in 1948? (bloomberg.com)

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Perspective on "The Elegant Universe: 25th Anniversary Edition" (columbia.edu)

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Silicon Valley's Trump Backers Cheer Vance as VP Pick (bloomberg.com)

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Harley Will Ride or Die with the Graybeards (wsj.com)

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Evidence for Primordial Gravitational Waves (arxiv.org)

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US Allies Allege China Is Developing Attack Drones for Russia (bloomberg.com)

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Are We the Soviets Now? (unherd.com)

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Latest Breakthrough from String Theory (columbia.edu)

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Rotation curves: still flat after a million light-years (tritonstation.com)

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A 2 min burst of highly polarised radio originating from low Galactic latitude (arxiv.org)

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Radio signal from space repeats every hour, defying explanation (newatlas.com)

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An intermittent radio signal from space has astronomers puzzled (theconversation.com)

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Roman Yampolskiy: Dangers of Superintelligent AI [video] (youtube.com)

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Deepfake scams have robbed companies of millions (cnbc.com)

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$7.5B investment in EV charging has only produced 7 stations in two years (washingtonpost.com)

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AI Is Changing the Game, Says Anduril Founder Luckey [video] (youtube.com)

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World's Biggest Construction Project Gets a Reality Check (wsj.com)

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Surströmming (wikipedia.org)