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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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‘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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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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Another Australia
https://www.sweatshop.ws/another-australia
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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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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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Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning | The Nation
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/charlie-kirk-assassination-maga/#
The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn’t a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division
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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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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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Emily Witt · Do you feel like a failure? In the Manosphere
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n16/emily-witt/do-you-feel-like-a-failure
The manosphere is confusing, because it’s a place where one can find both benign advice about protein consumption and...
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 […]
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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Giving People Money Helped Less Than I Thought It Would
https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/giving-people-money-helped-less-than
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How Big Can a Black Hole Get? | Scientific American
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-big-can-a-black-hole-get/
Some black holes get extremely massive. Is there an upper limit to their growth?
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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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I Want Everything, by Dominic Amerena
https://www.simonandschuster.com.au/books/I-Want-Everything/Dominic-Amerena/9781761631733