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What one country's experiment says about attempts to boost birth rates
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yzdr4ygdno
 
articles:rec demography europe fertility
Added 5 days ago
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.

 
articles:rec debugging programming security
Added 2 weeks ago
The Summer War, by Naomi Novik
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/788200/the-summer-war-by-naomi-novik/

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • HUGO AWARD FINALIST • In this poignant, heartfelt novella from the New York Times bestselling author of Spinning Silver...

 
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Katherine Rundell · Consider the Greenland Shark
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v42/n09/katherine-rundell/consider-the-greenland-shark

I am glad not to be a Greenland shark; I don’t have enough thoughts to fill five hundred years. But I find the very...

 
articles:rec biology
Added 2 months ago
When ‘the birdman’ of St James tunnel died, Sydney commuters streamed past his body for days | Housing | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/ng-interactive/2026/apr/19/bikram-lama-birdman-sydney-st-james-tunnel-homelessness-ntwnfb

<strong>Exclusive: </strong>The strange and lonely death of Bikram Lama exposes a glaring gap in homelessness services. What hopes and dreams brought him to Australia, and what went wrong?

 
articles:rec death sydney
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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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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/
 
abuse audio:rec australia medicine
Added 4 weeks ago
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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You Probably Don't Need To Stress About Hantavirus
https://gidmk.substack.com/p/you-probably-dont-need-to-stress
 
articles:rec illness medicine
Added 1 month ago
‘It wears away at the pay packet’: Grandmothers cut work hours to do free childcare
https://www.smh.com.au/national/it-wears-away-at-the-pay-packet-grandmothers-cut-work-hours-to-do-free-childcare-20260217-p5o33f.html
 
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Added 2 months ago
Why would a patient trust a peptide more than a statin? | STAT
https://www.statnews.com/2026/04/03/peptides-statins-research-trust-bpc-157/

With peptides like BPC-157, we are seeing 'the wholesale substitution of consumer enthusiasm for clinical evidence.'

 
articles:rec medicine
Added 2 months ago
Losing the War - by Lee Sandlin
https://www.leesandlin.com/articles/LosingTheWar.htm

World War II has faded into movies, anecdotes, and archives that nobody cares about anymore. Are we finally losing the war?

 
articles:rec history war wwii
Added 1 month ago
I was afraid to make a submission to the antisemitism royal commission. But silence has consequences too | George Newhouse | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/06/australia-antisemitism-royal-commission-submissions-racism-human-rights-ntwnfb

I work in a sector that speaks out on racism and human rights, yet on this issue I have felt the boundaries of acceptable speech narrow around me

 
articles:rec australia israel racism
Added 1 month ago
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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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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Added 1 month ago
50-Year Reread of The Lord of the Rings – 4: Pippin and Merry – Prospective Cultures
https://prospectiveculture.wordpress.com/2026/03/19/50-year-reread-of-the-lord-of-the-rings-4-pippin-and-merry/

A blog series in which I reread LOTR 50 years after I first read it, age 10, over the winter of 1975-76. Pippin and Merry come as a double act (not exactly ‘dumb and dumber’, but not a million miles from that either) in the Jackson film version of LOTR, providing both light relief and…

 
articles:rec books gender tolkien
Added 1 month ago
I’m a Eurovision superfan, but this year’s contest brings only sadness. I won’t be tuning in | Dave Keating | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/16/im-a-eurovision-superfan-but-this-years-contest-brings-only-sadness-i-wont-be-tuning-in

Mismanagement and political campaigning have sucked the joy out of an event meant to bring people together

 
articles:rec europe eurovision music politics
Added 1 month ago
Cringe Is Good, Earnestness Is Strength
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/cringe-is-good-earnestness-is-strength/

On irony poisoning and the importance of being earnest.

 
articles:rec gender politics
Added 2 months ago
How Artemis II’s Earthset photo compares with the iconic Earthrise image from 1968
https://theconversation.com/how-artemis-iis-earthset-photo-compares-with-the-iconic-earthrise-image-from-1968-279966

Artemis II astronauts updated the iconic 1968 image during their 2026 loop around the Moon.

 
articles:rec environment photography space
Added 2 months ago
AI Isn't Management. Try Explaining That to Matthew Prince
https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/ai-isnt-management-try-explaining
 
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A Dark Secret Has Imperiled the New Michael Jackson Movie
https://puck.news/michael-jackson-movie-imperiled-by-a-dark-secret/
 
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Added 1 month ago
You're Doing It Wrong: Notes on Criticism and Technology Hype
https://peoples-things.ghost.io/youre-doing-it-wrong-notes-on-criticism-and-technology-hype/

By Lee Vinsel

I'm reposting this essay I wrote in 2021 because the online blogging platform Medium has apparently changed its policies and people are having trouble accessing the original. Hopefully, I'll find a better, more durable solution soon. I'm reposting it unaltered, even though I would unsurprisingly do some

 
articles:rec research tech
Added 1 week ago
Half the truth: defending public education requires more honesty, not less | Pearls and Irritations
https://johnmenadue.com/post/2026/03/half-the-truth-defending-public-education-requires-more-honesty-not-less/

Criticism of public schools is not entirely wrong – but by ignoring unequal conditions, it misdiagnoses the problem and misplaces responsibility.

 
articles:rec australia education
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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
 
australia books:rec history politics
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