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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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‘I don’t think you’d ever change it’: Inside the famous Sydney oval that’s slowly falling apart
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/i-don-t-think-you-d-ever-change-it-inside-the-famous-sydney-oval-that-s-slowly-falling-apart-20250515-p5lzh3.html
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‘Mind-blowing’: inside the highest human-occupied ice age site found in Australia | Indigenous Australians | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jun/17/dargan-cave-shelter-ice-age-site
The Dargan cave, in the upper reaches of the Blue Mountains, was previously believed too hostile for human habitation
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#13 - Chiara Dellantonio - Piece Talks - Apple Podcasts
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/13-chiara-dellantonio/id1742455250?i=1000688332527
You may know that Chiara Dellantonio is a world-class speed puzzler who has finished 11th or higher in the individuals at every one of the last three years at t
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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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Ancient DNA solves mystery of Hungarian, Finnish language origins — Harvard Gazette
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/07/ancient-dna-solves-mystery-of-hungarian-finnish-language-familys-origins/
Parent emerged over 4,000 years ago in Siberia, farther east than many thought, then rapidly spread west, study finds.
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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/
At 21, Madison Griffiths dated her university tutor. It was legal, consensual – and a messy grey area | Books | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jun/29/madison-griffiths-sweet-nothings-teacher-university-student-relationships-dating-sex-ntwnfb
The author’s new book Sweet Nothings follows four women who, like her, dated their professors – and explores how even a consensual pedagogical relationship can result in ‘a unique harm’
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Australian journalist shot in LA. Why's it being reported passively?
https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/06/10/australian-journalist-shot-los-angeles-protests-media-reporting/
When a US officer shot Australian journalist Lauren Tomasi with a rubber bullet in LA, it was big news. But why is the coverage so passive?
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Bonus: The Lab Leak Goes Mainstream
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2040953/episodes/17282956-bonus-the-lab-leak-goes-mainstream
By popular demand we are releasing last month's Patreon bonus episode on the main feed! We chart the transformation of the lab leak from an unfounded theory promoted by right-wing cranks to an unfounded theory promoted by liberal journalists.Where to find us: Peter's newsletterPeter's other ...
But what can we do? – The World is Not Enough
https://worldisnotenough.org/2025/08/14/but-what-can-we-do/
A simple step we can all take to help stem the rise of fascism. Unfortunately it's not what most of our leaders are doing.
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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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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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Darwinist feminism: Dismantling the myth of female sexual passivity | Science | EL PAÍS English
https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2025-08-02/darwinist-feminism-dismantling-the-myth-of-female-sexual-passivity.html
The arrival of researchers like Sarah Blaffer Hrdy and Amy Parish transformed not only the study of primates, but also our understanding of evolution, sexuality and gender roles in general
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Deciphering Glyph :: I Think I’m Done Thinking About genAI For Now
https://blog.glyph.im/2025/06/i-think-im-done-thinking-about-genai-for-now.html
Deciphering Glyph, the blog of Glyph Lefkowitz.
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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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Dunbar’s number: why my theory that humans can only maintain 150 friendships has withstood 30 years of scrutiny
https://theconversation.com/dunbars-number-why-my-theory-that-humans-can-only-maintain-150-friendships-has-withstood-30-years-of-scrutiny-160676
The claim that our brain size limits us to 150 meaningful friendships has been challenged by a recent paper.
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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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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/
Episode 168 Pregnancy: Act 1 – This Podcast Will Kill You
https://thispodcastwillkillyou.com/2025/03/11/episode-168-pregnancy-act-1/
Episode 181 PCOS: Beyond the cysts – This Podcast Will Kill You
https://thispodcastwillkillyou.com/2025/07/08/episode-181-pcos-beyond-the-cysts/
Everybody Wants to Rule the World Except Me, by Django Wexler
https://djangowexler.com/writing/everybody-wants-to-rule-the-world-except-me/
Dark Lord Davi rules the kingdom, but she must now break the time loop that binds her in this hilariously bloody conclusion to the Dark Lord Davi duology. After countless failures (let’s not dwell on it), Davi has finally saved the kingdom from evil–by becoming the Dark Lord herself. But now, the hordes of wilders […]
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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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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