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Katherine Rundell · Consider the Greenland Shark

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v42/n09/katherine-rundell/consider-the-greenland-shark

I am glad not to be a Greenland shark; I don’t have enough thoughts to fill five hundred years. But I find the very...

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Part One: How L. Ron Hubbard Lied His Way to Godhood

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-one-how-l-ron-30040997/

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Why So Many Control Rooms Were Seafoam Green

https://bethmathews.substack.com/p/why-so-many-control-rooms-were-seafoam

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Why would a patient trust a peptide more than a statin? | STAT

https://www.statnews.com/2026/04/03/peptides-statins-research-trust-bpc-157/

With peptides like BPC-157, we are seeing 'the wholesale substitution of consumer enthusiasm for clinical evidence.'

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William Shatner experienced profound grief in space. It was the overview effect : NPR

https://www.npr.org/2022/10/23/1130482740/william-shatner-jeff-bezos-space-travel-overview-effect

William Shatner was excited to go to space last year. He didn't realize he'd be overwhelmed with sadness and go through "the strongest feelings of grief" that he'd ever experienced.

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How L. Ron Hubbard Made An Antichrist Using Sex Magic

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/how-l-ron-hubbard-made-an-59110100/

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Asteroid Hosts All Ingredients for DNA and RNA - Eos

https://eos.org/articles/asteroid-hosts-all-ingredients-for-dna-and-rna

Samples collected from asteroid Ryugu contain the four genetic “letters” of DNA, reinforcing the hypothesis that the chemical origins of life were present when…

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How Artemis II’s Earthset photo compares with the iconic Earthrise image from 1968

https://theconversation.com/how-artemis-iis-earthset-photo-compares-with-the-iconic-earthrise-image-from-1968-279966

Artemis II astronauts updated the iconic 1968 image during their 2026 loop around the Moon.

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Choice: True Stories of Birth, Contraception, Infertility, Adoption, Single Parenthood & Abortion, edited by Karen E. Bender and Nina de Gramont

https://karenebender.com/books/#choice

Official website of author Karen E. Bender

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When ‘the birdman’ of St James tunnel died, Sydney commuters streamed past his body for days | Housing | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/ng-interactive/2026/apr/19/bikram-lama-birdman-sydney-st-james-tunnel-homelessness-ntwnfb

<strong>Exclusive: </strong>The strange and lonely death of Bikram Lama exposes a glaring gap in homelessness services. What hopes and dreams brought him to Australia, and what went wrong?

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Silicon Valley has forgotten what normal people want | The Verge

https://www.theverge.com/tldr/915176/nft-metaverse-ai-weirdos

NFTs, the metaverse and AI are the most recent Silicon Valley enthusiasms. Does anyone remember how to build a consumer product?

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