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What one country's experiment says about attempts to boost birth rates
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yzdr4ygdno
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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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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
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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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/
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/
Part One: Dr. Sleep: The Australian Psychiatrist Who Made People Sleep Themselves To Death
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-one-dr-sleep-the-australian-325386876/
Know Your Enemy: Joan Didion, Conservative, with Sam Tanenhaus - Dissent Magazine
https://dissentmagazine.org/blog/know-your-enemy-joan-didion/
Why did Joan Didion love Barry Goldwater but hate Ronald Reagan? Historian Sam Tanenhaus helps make sense of Didion's conservatism.
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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The A.I. Giants Weren’t Prepared for This
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-jasmine-sun.html
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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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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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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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Seeing Other People, by Diana Reid
https://publishing.hardiegrant.com/en-au/books/seeing-other-people-by-diana-reid/9781761151705
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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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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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The Kaiser and a "Mediocre Man" Theory of History
https://www.deadcarl.com/p/the-kaiser-and-a-mediocre-man-theory
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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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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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What if It’s Not the Phones?
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/07/phones-haidt-play-gray/687846/
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Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir
https://andyweirauthor.com/#project-hail-mary
Andy Weir is the New York Times bestselling author of The Martian, Artemis, Project Hail Mary, and Cheshire Crossing.
A moment that changed me: My diagnosis seemed like a death sentence – how have I survived for another 40 years? | Aids and HIV | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/may/20/a-moment-that-changed-me-hiv-diagnosis-survived-40-years
To HIV researchers, I am an ‘elite controller’ – someone whose immune system has enabled them to live for decades without symptoms or medication. I hope that one day science will understand this tiny but lucky minority
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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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