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'The Boy Crisis' is Overblown
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/opinion/girls-boys-school-performance.html
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Fertility clinics Melbourne IVF and IVFAustralia accused of bungling records of donated sperm - ABC News
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-15/ivf-sperm-donor-mistake-wrong-family-list-dna-not-related/105404898
Some of Australia's largest IVF clinics have passed inaccurate information about children born from sperm donations to their male donors.
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A ChatGPT Obsession, a Mental Breakdown: Alex Taylor's Suicide by Cop
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/chatgpt-obsession-mental-breaktown-alex-taylor-suicide-1235368941/
Alex Taylor believed he had made contact with a conscious entity within OpenAI’s software, and that she'd been murdered. Then everything went wrong.
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How mainstream media and politicians fuelled Australia's biggest far-right rally
https://www.lamestream.com.au/how-mainstream-media-and-politicians-fuelled-australias-biggest-far-right-rally/
Six takeaways from the March for Australia and why it should be a wake-up call.
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Russell T Davies–David Tennant Does a Podcast With… – Apple Podcasts
https://podcasts.apple.com/ke/podcast/russell-t-davies/id1450005207?i=1000698585806
David Tennant sits down with his longtime friend and collaborator, Russell T Davies, the acclaimed writer behind Doctor Who, It's a Sin, Queer as Folk, and more
Clinical Comedy
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/clinical-comedy/
It is impossible to change people’s minds. Every new fact is taken as confirmation of pre-existing bias, every criticism of our in-group taken as a sign of the critic’s bad faith. We are more sure than ever that we are more sure than ever, we are of one
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The stunning decline of the preference for having boys
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/06/05/the-stunning-decline-of-the-preference-for-having-boys
Millions of girls were aborted for being girls. Now parents often lean towards them | Leaders
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Why I Find It Hard to Write About Being a Widow
https://www.dataandpolitics.net/why-i-find-it-hard-to-write-about-being-a-widow/
Why is it so hard to write about being a widow? My story has no redemptive arc. No community rallied, no family came together, no strength was discovered. Just sudden loss and ongoing adaptation without resolution. These are the widowhood stories we don't want to hear but need to tell.
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Episode 181 PCOS: Beyond the cysts – This Podcast Will Kill You
https://thispodcastwillkillyou.com/2025/07/08/episode-181-pcos-beyond-the-cysts/
Elon-Trump, Welcome to the Thunderdome - TPM – Talking Points Memo
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/elon-trump-welcome-to-the-thunderdome
We’ve clearly clarified that the Elon-Trump feud is real. I assume you’ve seen or heard about the back-and-forth social media salvos in which Trump has…
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I Asked My Haters to Critique My "Worst" Outfit
https://www.cartoonshateher.com/p/i-asked-my-haters-to-critique-my
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Gay and bisexual men will soon be able to donate blood and plasma
https://theconversation.com/gay-and-bisexual-men-will-soon-be-able-to-donate-blood-and-plasma-259136
In the future, risk-assessments for whole blood won’t be based on sexual orientation.
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Measles cases are surging globally. Should children be vaccinated earlier?
https://theconversation.com/measles-cases-are-surging-globally-should-children-be-vaccinated-earlier-257942
Vaccination is key to protecting against measles – but the question of when exactly is best to give the vaccine is not black and white.
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My wife and daughters left behind a legacy of love, John Hunt tells BBC
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy5wk716pzdo.amp
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Developing our position on AI - Blog - Recurse Center
https://www.recurse.com/blog/191-developing-our-position-on-ai
ment or increase your agency, not replace it.
The primary value of RC is the people, which is why our third self-directive is to learn generously. Learning generously is what makes RC a community. We celebrate each other’s successes, support each other when we struggle, and benefit from each other’s knowledge.
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Jim Rogers on love, loss and living well with younger-onset dementia - ABC News
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-16/dementia-australia-younger-early-onset-alzheimers-jim-rogers/105379262
There were signs for years that something was wrong, and Jim Rogers's doctor put it down to stress. But when the 55-year-old couldn't silence his phone, his world began to unravel.
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Things in Nature Merely Grow, by Yiyun Li
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374617318/thingsinnaturemerelygrow/
Anti-Vax America: The Complete Series
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-it-could-happen-here-30717896/episode/anti-vax-america-the-complete-series-282227570/
The Columbia hack is a much bigger deal than Mamdani’s college application | The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/analysis/703232/columbia-hack-admissions-data-mamdani
Columbia University was in a vulnerable position before it was hit by a massive, politically-motivated hack. Shouldn’t we know more about what’s going on?
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Episode 147 Tasmanian Devil Facial Tumor Disease: Sympathy for the Devil – This Podcast Will Kill You
https://thispodcastwillkillyou.com/2024/07/30/episode-147-tasmanian-devil-facial-tumor-disease-sympathy-for-the-devil/
Georgia Tennant - David Tennant Does a Podcast With… - Apple Podcasts
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/georgia-tennant/id1450005207?i=1000702537041
Hear David Tennant as you have never heard him before... The tables are turned as David sits in the hot seat, interviewed by none other than his wife Georgia Te
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Comparisons Between Life in the UK and the USA
https://sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2025/07/comparisons-between-life-in-uk-and-usa.html
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Hope on the Horizon – Lessons for Europe stemming from the Australian and Canadian elections - Diritti Comparati
https://www.diritticomparati.it/hope-on-the-horizon-lessons-for-europe-stemming-from-the-australian-and-canadian-elections/
di Jock Gardiner1. Within a week of each other, Australia and Canada held federal elections that produced remarkably similar results: the incumbent parties of the centre-left winning power; their Trump-curious conservative opponents not only losing the elections, but also seeing their leaders lose their parliamentary seats. In what has been a pretty gloomy period for this Blog’s European audience – the electoral situation in Romania, recent Reform wins in UK local elections...
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Helen Garner's love letter to her grandson, and football - ABC listen
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/conversations/helen-garner-grandmother-under-16s-football-grandson/104452736
When writer Helen Garner began following her grandson’s under-16s football team, she gained a new appreciation for 'the ordinary beauty of human society'.