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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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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.
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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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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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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/
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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
AI Isn't Management. Try Explaining That to Matthew Prince
https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/ai-isnt-management-try-explaining
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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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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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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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Introducing — Autistic AF With Grace Tame
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/ladies-we-need-to-talk/introducing-autistic-af-with-grace-tame/106723584
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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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The Age of Extremophiles
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-it-could-happen-here-30717896/episode/the-age-of-extremophiles-331674257/
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/
Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage, by Belle Burden
https://www.belleburden.com/books
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Terry Pratchett - Charlie's Diary
https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2015/03/terry-pratchett.html
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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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Why is gynecology still using a Civil War-era tool?
https://19thnews.org/2026/07/revolutionizing-gynecology-iud-pain/
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Types of Fun
https://www.thechatner.com/p/types-of-fun
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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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No, 1 in 6 People Do Not Have Long COVID
https://gidmk.substack.com/p/no-1-in-6-people-do-not-have-long
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Brainstorm, by Richard Scolyer with Garry Maddox
https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/book/Richard-Scolyer-Brainstorm-9781761471490
Brainstorm - Richard Scolyer