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Why is gynecology still using a Civil War-era tool?
https://19thnews.org/2026/07/revolutionizing-gynecology-iud-pain/
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A Philosopher’s One-Word Theory to Explain Why the World Feels So Weird
https://www.derekthompson.org/p/a-philosophers-one-word-theory-to
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The stubborn scarcity of female breadwinners
https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2026/07/13/the-stubborn-scarcity-of-female-breadwinners
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We used to be able to buy things in this country
https://dannykatch.substack.com/p/we-used-to-be-able-to-buy-things
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The Ability To Play As Bowser Has Made Our Society More Evil – Clickhole
https://www.clickhole.com/2015/01/05/the-ability-to-play-as-bowser-has-made-our-society-more-1825123963/
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The A.I. Giants Weren’t Prepared for This
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-jasmine-sun.html
White winters across regional NSW towns now a fading memory
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-06/blue-mountains-snow-drought-reaches-record-four-years/106982612
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Flight attendants and pilots have highest risk of dying from radiation-linked cancers, study says | PBS News
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/flight-attendants-and-pilots-have-highest-risk-of-dying-from-radiation-linked-cancers-study-says
Cosmic radiation comes from space. Only a small amount reaches the Earth's surface, but exposure is greater for people flying at high altitudes.
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The famous limit of 150 friends a human brain can supposedly hold turns out to rest on a calculation whose own confidence interval runs from 2 to 520 — too wide to support any specific number, let alone the one everyone quotes - Silicon Canals
https://siliconcanals.com/n-the-famous-limit-of-150-friends-a-human-brain-can-supposedly-hold-turns-out-to-rest-on-a-calculation-whose-own-confidence-interval-runs-from-2-to-520-too-wide-to-support-any-specific-number/
A decades-old rule about human friendship turns out to be built on such shaky math that it could just as easily be 2 or 520.
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Hackers Had A Live Feed Of Every ID This Verification Company Scanned. For Over A Year.
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/09/03/hackers-had-a-live-feed-of-every-id-this-verification-company-scanned-for-over-a-year/
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Solar Solves Everything*
https://sammatey.substack.com/p/solar-solves-everything
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I'm Still Skeptical Because You Keep Using Faith in AI to Extrapolate | Josh Reed
https://jriddy.com/posts/skeptical-faith-ai-extrapolate/
I admit it. I took the bait. Charity Majors made an appearance on Gergely Orosz’s show called “Stop being skeptical about AI for development”. I listened to the podcast—I don’t listen to many tech podcasts—and I don’t think she ever said to stop being skeptical. Not directly anyways. Great title, though. Good for engagement. “Stop being skeptical” is a phrase guaranteed to rustle any skeptic’s jimmies. A whole lotta provocation, not a lotta substance. 10/10. No notes.
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