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The Age of Extremophiles

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-it-could-happen-here-30717896/episode/the-age-of-extremophiles-331674257/

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Brainstorm, by Richard Scolyer with Garry Maddox

https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/book/Richard-Scolyer-Brainstorm-9781761471490

Brainstorm - Richard Scolyer

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Part One: Robert Maxwell: How Ghislaine Maxwell's Dad Ruined Science - Behind the Bastards | iHeart

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-one-robert-maxwell-how-ghislaine-274165028/

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Bit Rot Doesn't Always Increase Entropy – A Story from the Archives - Google Bug Hunters

https://bughunters.google.com/blog/bit-rot-doesnt-always-increase-entropy

This blog post takes us back to 2010, retracing and incident where a statistical anomaly led to the discovery of a subtle flaw in the way we were using a security-critical library.

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Grit — If Books Could Kill

https://www.buzzsprout.com/2040953/episodes/19100483-grit

In 2013, education reformers tried to help poor students the using the best tool at their disposal: The 16th most popular Ted Talk.Special thanks to Marcus Credé! Where to find us: Our PatreonOur merch!Peter's newsletterPeter's other podcast, 5-4Mike's other podcast, Maintenance PhaseSo...

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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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Elon Musk alone isn’t responsible for Belfast's racist pogrom

https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/elon-musk-belfast-pogrom-lee-hurley

The violent response to an attempted murder would have happened regardless of Musk, Lee Hurley writes.

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Where It All Went Wrong: The Case Against John Howard, by Amy Remeikis

https://www.simonandschuster.com.au/books/Where-It-All-Went-Wrong/Amy-Remeikis/9781761822117

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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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What if It’s Not the Phones?

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/07/phones-haidt-play-gray/687846/

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Seeing Other People, by Diana Reid

https://publishing.hardiegrant.com/en-au/books/seeing-other-people-by-diana-reid/9781761151705

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My Ordinary Life: Improvements Since the 1990s · Gwern.net

https://gwern.net/improvement

A list of unheralded improvements to ordinary quality-of-life since the 1990s going beyond computers.

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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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The last continent: how deadly bird flu travelled the world before landing on a remote Australian beach | Bird flu | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/28/bird-flu-travelled-world-remote-australian-beach?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

The H5N1 virus has now reached every continent on the planet. What does it mean for some of the world’s unique species?

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Deciphering Glyph :: Adversarial Communication

https://blog.glyph.im/2026/06/adversarial-communication.html

Deciphering Glyph, the blog of Glyph Lefkowitz.

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Life at the end of the metaverse

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/technology/73949/life-at-the-end-of-the-metaverse

Mark Zuckerberg built a future that nobody wanted. Tech bosses are repeating his mistake

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Part One: Jimmy Savile: Britain's Unending Nightmare

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-one-jimmy-savile-britains-unending-330154698/

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Eight Questions About the Maldives Dive Accident

https://www.thehumandiver.com/post/eight-questions-about-maldives-accident

Five Italian divers died in a cave at 55 m. Before anyone delivers a verdict, here are the questions Just Culture demands we ask first — and why their sequence matters.

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Skill nostalgia

https://aeon.co/essays/the-radical-reasons-why-you-dream-of-making-things-by-hand

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Types of Fun

https://www.thechatner.com/p/types-of-fun

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How Britain Became as Poor as Mississippi: A case study in self-sabotage

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/07/uk-productivity-economy-reform-party/687303/

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Part One: Carl Schmitt: The Mind Behind Modern Fascism - Behind the Bastards | iHeart

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-one-carl-schmitt-the-mind-276486999/

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How effective are vaccines at stopping deadly bird flu from spreading? - ABC News

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2026-06-25/avian-influenza-h5n1-vaccine-effectiveness/106831626

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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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