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He appeared to be a pauper, but John Chapman, aka Johnny Appleseed, was quite successful, owning 1,200 acres across three states
She called Judith Butler evil and Susan Sontag boring. Camille Paglia is 79 and unrepentant
Trivial pursuits. How do you know if a game â whether elegant, complex, or embarrassingly simple â truly matters?
"Information commons" sounds democratic. But it suggests that knowledge is something you retrieve, not carry
"The age when you can run a literary magazine on trust is over. You can either decide AI submissions are fine, or you can filter for them"
A study in mice suggests loss of estrogen between brain cells as a possible cause The post Why Do More Women Than Men Develop Alzheimerâs? appeared first on Nautilus.
Silver Bulletin favorability ratings for the world's richest man.
Using the Federal Reserveâs Distribution of Household Wealth in the U.S. since 1989 data, Ryan Thorpe imagines a pizza party with 100 guests and 100 slices of pizza as a stand-in for the United States
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ââWhat scientists are learning about immortality from a humble marine creature The post Can Cells from a Sea Cucumber Live Forever? appeared first on Nautilus.
As part of the Ocean Census project, âscientists have discovered 1,121 marine species in a single yearâ. Discoveries include âa new species of deep-sea ghost shark, a symbiotic bristle wormâŚas well as
These Gigavillains Are Bringing So Many Technologies Down the Learning Curve
The Coming American "Liberation" of Cuba, Florida Cubans, US Empire, and Diaspora Politics
A planned strike at Samsung this month would have been the biggest industrial action in a South Korean workplace since the heyday of labor militancy in the 1980s, involving more than .47,000 workers I
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Michael Sippey was frustrated by The New York Times home page design. So he orchestrated a slim version that pulls various feeds into a simple viewer. It is pleasing. For the record, I think the Times
Steven Poole at The Guardian: The great Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, who translated William Faulkner, AndrĂŠ Gide, Franz Kafka and Virginia Woolf into Spanish, drew the line at Shakespeare. Spea
The moment I clicked through to the Caught In Joy YouTube channel, I knew I was going to love it. The description: Over 80 albums designed to focus, flow and reset. Instrumental electronic music for y
Usually, a report might become major news because of some kind of damning or inconvenient revelation thatâs contained inside it. But the Democratic Party is currently in such disarray, itâs managed to
Tom Lee (@fundstrat) came on the podcast and dropped one stat after another. Hereâs what we covered: ⢠Why the market shrugged off war + record oil prices ⢠His S&P 7,300 call earlier this year ⢠Is t
Primary runoff elections in Texas show that the two most dangerous threats to incumbent politicians are Donald Trump and AIPAC.
It may reduce suicidal intent for up to a month or more The post Can a New Drug Combo Prevent Death by Suicide? appeared first on Nautilus.
A recent study of 2.5M scientific papers found ~146,900 fake citations, presumably hallucinated by AI. The fake citations âwere not limited to a handful of bad apples but appeared across many papers,
Gina Kolata at the New York Times: In a small, preliminary study, an experimental gene-editing treatment dramatically lowered cholesterol levels, perhaps permanently, after just one infusion, scientis
To Land a Job in AI, Try Reading Kant. âIf a for-profit AI company signs your paycheck, might that compromise your research? By playing Aristotle to AI Alexander, do you risk your work becoming an ins
CBS just let one of â60 Minutesâ best correspondents walk. Alfonsi diagnosed the project on her way out: keep the brand, remove the journalism.
For twenty-nine years, Angela Spohn has worked at the same hospital in Grand Blanc, Michigan, a suburb south of Flint along the long stretch of exurban highway connecting Flint to metro Detroit. She s
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âObserve the moth in its monumental fight for life, and do likewise. We gain lifeâs powers by knowing that eventually they will be taken away. There is beauty in this struggle. Murmurations of starlin
The post Pope Leo XIV: AI Wealth Must Be Universally Shared appeared first on NOEMA.
The invertebrates definitely come out to play The post When a Century-Long Rodent Invasion Ends appeared first on Nautilus.
Since Zohran Mamdani took office in New York City at the start of the year, an important question has hung over his administration: Will the new mayor be able to use the power of city government to up
Noah Smith at Noahpinion: Sometimes itâs hard to keep track of everything Trump is doing to tear down the America I grew up in. In his first term, it was often said that he avoided criticism using a â
I have a pizza oven and baked very underwhelming bread twice during the pandemic, but Iâve found it difficult to fall into a proper rabbit hole when it comes to dough-making. Focaccia might do it for
80,000 hours has a new book, innovatively named "80,000 hours." You should probably read it.
Wednesdays are all about personal finance here at Abnormal Returns. You can check out last weekâs links including a look at the...
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Itâs the first time the activity has been caught on video The post Watch Immune System Cells Gobble Up Cancer Cells appeared first on Nautilus.
Every time I visit the Cincinnati Art Museum I pause by the Saul Steinberg mural on display and delight in some new detail. (Daniel Fuller has some backstory.) This admiration turned realization that
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