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Was Jeanne Calment the Oldest Person Who Ever Lived—or a Fraud? | The New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/02/17/was-jeanne-calment-the-oldest-person-who-ever-lived-or-a-fraud
Some researchers have cast doubt on the record of the celebrated supercentenarian, Lauren Collins writes.
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favorite books i read in 2024: challenger
https://www.yatima.org/archives/2024/12/26/favorite-books-i-read-in-2024-challenger/
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Blind and Sighted People Understand Color Similarly - Arts & Sciences Magazine
https://magazine.krieger.jhu.edu/2021/10/blind-and-sighted-people-understand-color-similarly/
Krieger School researchers have found that like any sighted person, those born blind understand two bananas are likely to be the same color and why.
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The Great Resegregation - The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/02/trump-attacks-dei/681772/
The Trump administration’s attacks on DEI are aimed at reversing the civil-rights movement.
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Midnight In Chernobyl: the Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster, by Adam Higginbotham
https://www.adamhigginbotham.com/#midnight
Let's Get Real: I'm going to use the F-word and the C-word
https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/lets-get-real
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Gisèle Pelicot, person of the year
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/68918/gisele-pelicot-person-of-the-year
By insisting that her mass rape trial was held in the open, Pelicot has gifted others with real hope for change
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TERFs, Trans Mascs, and Two Steve Feminism
https://jude-doyle.ghost.io/terfs-trans-mascs-and-two-steve-feminism/
In which A Man has an Opinion about Feminism, with Mixed Results.
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Why Tech Bros Overestimate AI's Creative Abilities
https://www.aaronrosspowell.com/p/why-tech-bros-overestimate-ai-s-creative-abilities
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What Felt Impossible Became Possible | dansinker.com
https://dansinker.com/posts/2025-02-23-dale/
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This Man is a Coward.
https://www.theindex.media/this-man-is-a-coward/
This man is a coward. And no amount of corporate jargon or performative masculinity can make that stain go away.
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Are LLMs making StackOverflow irrelevant? - The Pragmatic Engineer
https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/are-llms-making-stackoverflow-irrelevant/
Fresh data shows that the number of questions asked on StackOverflow are as low as they were back in 2009 – which was when StackOverflow was one years old. The drop suggests that ChatGPT – and LLMs – managed to make StackOverflow’s business model irrelevant in about two years’ time.
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Elon Musk, Apartheid, and America’s New Boycott Movement – Mother Jones
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/02/elon-musk-apartheid-boycott-tesla-doge-trump/
If you think mass protests can’t combat evil, remember what we did in the 1980s.
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Shop — FELDMARK POTTERY
https://www.feldmark.com.au/shop
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Mark Zuckerberg Has a Funny Idea of What It Is to Be a Man
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/opinion/zuckerberg-masculine-energy-rogan-trump.html
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Sleeping Women
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n24/sophie-smith/sleeping-womenue
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Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism, by Sarah Wynn-Williams
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250391230/carelesspeople/
Vivian Jenna Wilson on Being Elon Musk’s Estranged Daughter, Protecting Trans Youth and Taking on the Right Online | Teen Vogue
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/vivian-jenna-wilson-elon-musk-trans-youth
In Teen Vogue’s special issue cover story, the estranged 20-year-old daughter of Elon Musk talks about the “cartoonishly evil” Trump administration and being a young trans woman today.
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The coming battle between social media and the state
https://www.ft.com/content/917c9535-1cdb-4f6a-9a15-1a0c83663bfd
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Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space, by Adam Higginbotham
https://www.adamhigginbotham.com/
Political Parties Are Illegal in the United States – J. W. Mason
https://jwmason.org/slackwire/political-parties-are-illegal-in-the-united-states/
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James Harrison: Australian whose blood saved 2.4 million babies dies
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y4xqe60gyo
Known as the 'man with the golden arm', James Harrison's blood contained a rare antibody that saved millions of lives.
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Buried Deep and Other Stories, by Naomi Novik
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/723828/buried-deep-and-other-stories-by-naomi-novik/
A thrilling collection of thirteen short stories that span the worlds of the New York Times bestselling author of the Scholomance trilogy, including a...
Shop — Ruby Pilven
https://www.rubypilven.com/shop
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