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Scientists Prove Justinian's Plague, which Continued through the Rise of Islam, was Caused by Y. Pestis
https://www.juancole.com/2025/09/scientists-justinians-continued.html

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) - The first recorded world-historical pandemic took place in the Roman Empire and Sasanian Iran, as …

 
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How Movements Win
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/how-movements-win/

On the importance of a strong inside strategy.

 
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What AI’s Doomers and Utopians Have in Common - The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2025/09/what-ais-doomers-and-utopians-have-in-common/684270/

Those who predict that superintelligence will destroy humanity serve the same interests as those who believe that it will solve all of our problems.

 
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How the World Became Rich: The Historical Origins of Economic Growth: 9781509540235: Economics Books @ Amazon.com
https://www.amazon.com/How-World-Became-Rich-Historical/dp/1509540237

How the World Became Rich: The Historical Origins of Economic Growth: 9781509540235: Economics Books @ Amazon.com

 
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How The FBI Botched The Olympic Park Bombing
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/how-the-fbi-botched-the-olympic-297551912/
 
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The Danger of Stoic Sadism
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/the-danger-of-stoic-sadism
 
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Face transplants promised hope. Patients were put through the unthinkable | Science | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/nov/27/face-transplant-patients-results-outcomes

Twenty years after the first face transplant, patients are dying, data is missing, and the experimental procedure’s future hangs in the balance

 
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Your Genes Are Simply Not Enough to Explain How Smart You Are - The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/2025/10/genetics-intelligence-charles-murray/684544/

Seven years ago, I took a bet with Charles Murray about whether we’d basically understand the genetics of intelligence by now.

 
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I had to flee the US – as a foreign, Black, pro-Palestinian activist, I tick every box on Ice’s list | Amandla Thomas-Johnson | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/05/palestinian-foreigners-protests-campus-ai-ice-trump-us-migrant

I’ve never been accused of any crimes, let alone prosecuted. My experience sums-up the draconian plight of non-citizens in the US, says journalist Amandla Thomas-Johnson

 
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Poptimism Ate Itself
https://jude-doyle.ghost.io/po/

Oh Christgau! Up yours!

 
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Tehran's Corruption Has Put the City on the Brink of Catastrophe
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/26/tehran-iran-water-quakes/

Moving the capital is an old idea and a perennial nonstarter.

 
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Ed Zitron Gets Paid to Love AI. He Also Gets Paid to Hate AI | WIRED
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-pr-ed-zitron-profile/

He’s one of the loudest voices of the AI haters—even as he does PR for AI companies. Either way, Ed Zitron has your attention.

 
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Halloween candy has a big myth around it. Why do parents still believe it?
https://slate.com/life/2025/10/halloween-candy-sugar-kids-hyper-debunk.html

You may want to keep this news from your kids.

 
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Why serial abusers like Michael Slater are likely to strike again
https://www.smh.com.au/national/why-serial-abusers-like-michael-slater-are-likely-to-strike-again-20250904-p5msg8.html
 
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Part One: Christopher Columbus: Bringer of the Apocalypse
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-one-christopher-columbus-bringer-of-101725720/
 
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Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/billionaires-are-hoarding-power-not-money/

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

 
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Python Software Foundation News: The PSF has withdrawn a $1.5 million proposal to US government grant program
https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-funding-statement.html
 
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Patti Smith on the One Desire That Lasts Forever
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-patti-smith.html
 
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What happens when Chinese resolve meets American rent-seeking?
https://hypertext.niskanencenter.org/p/what-happens-when-chinese-resolve
 
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What Was the Girlboss? And how did she become feminism's problem?
https://moiradonegan.substack.com/p/what-was-the-girlboss
 
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Shocked by Epstein’s birthday book? That culture was everywhere before feminism | Rebecca Solnit | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/13/epstein-birthday-book-feminism-culture

Feminism exposed the ubiquity of child abuse, rape, sexual harassment and domestic violence – and helped fight that culture

 
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Giving People Money Helped Less Than I Thought It Would
https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/giving-people-money-helped-less-than
 
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“Cat Person” by Kristen Roupenian draws specific details from my life.
https://slate.com/human-interest/2021/07/cat-person-kristen-roupenian-viral-story-about-me.html

Since I first read Kristen Roupenian’s viral story, I’ve wondered: How did she know about me?

 
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The senator, the ex-PM and the lobby group: Price’s crusade to remake the Liberals
https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/the-senator-the-ex-pm-and-the-lobby-group-price-s-crusade-to-remake-the-liberals-20250911-p5mueu.html
 
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