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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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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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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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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.

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Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage, by Belle Burden

https://www.belleburden.com/books

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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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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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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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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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New Acquisitions: Tolkien and Éowyn Between Two Wars (PPP Moot Keynote) – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

https://acoup.blog/2026/01/03/new-acquisitions-tolkien-and-eowyn-between-two-wars-ppp-moot-keynote/

Hey folks! I am working on finishing up some things this week, so I thought I would post the text of the keynote I gave at the Prancing Pony Podcast Moot earlier this December. I've made some minor edits to conform a bit more to the form of a blog post, but this remains very…

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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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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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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 Ten Year Affair, by Erin Somers

https://www.erinsomers.com/books

BOOKS

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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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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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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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Types of Fun

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

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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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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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Terry Pratchett - Charlie's Diary

https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2015/03/terry-pratchett.html

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Brainstorm, by Richard Scolyer with Garry Maddox