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Amazon is filled with garbage e-books, this is how they get made

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If you’re a millennial, you may remember that specific moment in time around the late 2000s...
If you’re a millennial, you may remember that specific moment in time around the late 2000s when streaming video technology had just gotten good but there weren’t that many legitimate streaming platforms available yet. So if you were a student without a TV and you wanted to watch a show, you would go to a website th...
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AI already uses as much energy as a small country. It's only the beginning

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Paige Vickers/Vox; Getty Images In January, the International Energy Agency (IEA) issued its forecast for global...
Paige Vickers/Vox; Getty Images In January, the International Energy Agency (IEA) issued its forecast for global energy use over the next two years. Included for the first time were projections for electricity consumption associated with data centers, cryptocurrency, and artificial intelligence. The IEA estimates th...
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Silicon Valley's vision for AI? It's religion, repackaged

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Suppose I told you that in 10 years, the world as you know it will be...
Suppose I told you that in 10 years, the world as you know it will be over. You will live in a sort of paradise. You won’t get sick, or age, or die. Eternal life will be yours! Even better, your mind will be blissfully free of uncertainty — you’ll have access to perfect knowledge. Oh, and you’ll no longer be stuck o...
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The slow death of Twitter is measured in disasters like the Baltimore collapse

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Will AI usher in an era of explosive economic growth?

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Why is Oregon about to re-criminalize psychedelics in response to opioid crisis?

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Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek speaks during a signing ceremony for HB4002, re-criminalizing personal possession of controlled...
Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek speaks during a signing ceremony for HB4002, re-criminalizing personal possession of controlled substances, including psychedelics. Susan Walsh/AP In 2020, it looked as though the war on drugs would begin to end in Oregon. After Measure 110 was passed that year, Oregon became the first state i...
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Why can't anyone agree on how dangerous AI will be?

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A ragtag band of internet friends became the best at forecasting world events

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How to master the art of small talk

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Who fakes cancer research? Apparently, lots of people

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I got to see the IRS' free tax-filing software in action. Here's what I learned

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9 Charts that show US factory farming is even bigger than you realize

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In a few generations, factory farming — the set of economic, genetic, chemical, and pharmaceutical innovations...
In a few generations, factory farming — the set of economic, genetic, chemical, and pharmaceutical innovations that enabled humanity to raise tens of billions of animals for food every year — has transformed America. It has polluted our water and air, ruining quality of life for people who live near animal confineme...
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The Earth is getting greener

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American drivers even more distracted by phones. Pedestrian deaths are soaring

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A driver is captured using a phone behind the wheel in New York in this 2016...
A driver is captured using a phone behind the wheel in New York in this 2016 in photo. The problem of distracted drivers has only gotten worse, one set of data from millions of drivers shows. Spencer Platt/Getty Images Until relatively recently, good data on the problem of distracted driving has been hard to find. T...
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What If Public Housing Were for Everyone?

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How to make your anger work for you

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A math equation that predicts the end of humanity

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The most mind-boggling controversy in the contemporary philosophy of science is the “doomsday argument,” a claim...
The most mind-boggling controversy in the contemporary philosophy of science is the “doomsday argument,” a claim that a mathematical formula can predict how long the human race will survive. It gives us even odds that our species will meet its end within the next 760 years. The doomsday argument doesn’t tell what’s ...
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Welcome to the "neomedieval era": are states becoming obsolete?

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The world, we are told, is entering a new era of “great-power rivalry.” Or at least,...
The world, we are told, is entering a new era of “great-power rivalry.” Or at least, it was supposed to be. The most recent US National Security Strategy, issued by President Joe Biden’s administration in 2022, confidently asserted that “the post-Cold War era is definitively over,” and that we were entering an era d...
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Everybody has to self-promote now. Nobody wants to

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How Boeing Put Profits over Planes

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Imagine being mid-flight when a part of your plane rips out, leaving a yawning hole at...
Imagine being mid-flight when a part of your plane rips out, leaving a yawning hole at 16,000 feet above ground. On a January 5 Alaska Airlines flight, the emergency door plug — usually fitted seamlessly into the aircraft’s fuselage — on the Boeing-made plane blew out. Luckily, the seat next to the panel was empty, ...
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Can Ultraviolet lightbulbs end the next pandemic before it starts?

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Cities are asking SCOTUS for more power to clear homeless encampments (2023)

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A homeless encampment near a Target store in Los Angeles, California. State and local lawmakers, both...
A homeless encampment near a Target store in Los Angeles, California. State and local lawmakers, both Republicans and Democrats, are seeking to overturn lower court decisions that currently block their power to clear encampments with unhoused people. Mario Tama/Getty Images In 2018, a federal court issued a conseque...
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You gotta just ignore annoying tweets Yes, people on the internet are irritating

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Look at how happy he is! Getty Images Two weeks ago, I saw a tweet that...
Look at how happy he is! Getty Images Two weeks ago, I saw a tweet that was written, I believe, with the sole purpose of annoying me. It wasn’t just a bad take; there are a lot of those on the internet. This one happened to nail all of my Personal Qualms With Society Today. It was indicative of all the little ways t...
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The "10k-hour rule" was debunked again

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Practice will make you better. Don’t expect it to make you perfect. Ricardo DeAratanha/Los Angeles Times...
Practice will make you better. Don’t expect it to make you perfect. Ricardo DeAratanha/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Covering psychology the past several years, I’ve grown used to reading about how classic, viral experiments in the field are failing in rigorous retests. It’s often disappointing to read about: M...
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