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Pandemic Revisionism, Part One: COVID-19 Origins
https://gidmk.substack.com/p/pandemic-revisionism-part-one-covid
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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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The real Salt Path: how a blockbuster book and film were ...
https://observer.co.uk/news/national/article/the-real-salt-path-how-the-couple-behind-a-bestseller-left-a-trail-of-debt-and-deceit
Penniless and homeless, the Winns found fame and fortune with the story of their 630-mile walk to salvation. We can reveal that the truth behind it is ve...
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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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Photographer Beautifully 'Breaks the Rules' With Abstract Fireworks Photos | PetaPixel
https://petapixel.com/2025/07/02/photographer-beautifully-breaks-the-rules-with-abstract-fireworks-photos/
Discover the bold, abstract firework photography of Bryan Szucs, where creative techniques transform bursts of color into captivating art.
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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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The first non-opioid painkiller
https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/the-first-non-opioid-painkiller
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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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Michael Callen On Dying | Michael Callen
http://michaelcallen.com/mikes-writing/michael-callen-on-dying/
But I want to share with you the great secret, which is that dying can be an amazingly sensual, almost erotic experience, because it’s very much about the body. I feel that I’m a person…
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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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‘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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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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Mondo Armand Duplantis keeps breaking his pole vault world record by a single centimetre, but why? - ABC News
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-17/mondo-armand-duplantis-keeps-breaking-his-pole-vault-world-1cm/105426332
Pole vault legend Armand Duplantis keeps breaking his own record a centimetre at a time — and it keeps earning him the big bucks.
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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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How Modern Camera Shutters Work | Lens Rentals
https://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2024/03/how-modern-camera-shutters-work/
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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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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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The She Made Him Do It Theory of Everything
https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/the-she-made-him-do-it-theory-of-everything-2/
The rhetoric and logic of the abuse of power operates similarly at all scales, which is why I've found feminism such useful equipment for understanding authoritarians in public and political life. Because no matter what abusers take from their victims, they don't want to take the blame. And one of
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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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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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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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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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‘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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My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts · The Fly Blog
https://fly.io/blog/youre-all-nuts/
My smartest friends have bananas arguments about LLM coding.
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