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This Weeks Hype
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If a post-truth field of science is going to keep going, it needs to convince funders and the public that progress is being made, so theres a continual need for people uninterested in truth and will ...[Continue Reading]
Columbia.edu
1 day ago
Recent News (Science)
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Patients Kept Nearly Dying at a Texas Hospital. No One Suspected an Inside Job.
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ON AUGUST 24, 2022, an 18-year-old named Jack Adlerstein checked into the Baylor Scott & White North Dallas Surgicare center. He had come in to have an injury repaireda deviated septumfollowing a ...[Continue Reading]
menshealth.com
1 day ago
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Self-learning AI gives NFL against the spread, over-under, money-line picks for every Week 12, 2024 game
CBS Sports Staff
The Week 12 NFL schedule is looking like another must-see slate and the NFC West will take center stage with a trio of high-profile NFL matchups that could have a major impact on the division and NFL ...[Continue Reading]
CBS Sports
1 day ago
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Grace Against Gravity and the Physics of Vulnerability: How Birds Fly and Why They Flock in a V Formation
Maria Popova
What we see from the air is so simple and beautiful, Georgia OKeeffe wrote after her first airplane flight, I cannot help feeling that it would do something wonderful for the human race rid it ...[Continue Reading]
Themarginalian.org
1 day ago
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Excerpts from The Believer: An Interview with Filmmaker and Musician Boots Riley
Annalee Newitz
I am trying to repel audiences and pull them in at the same time, so they gain a different kind of awareness of what theyre watching. Boots Rileys art was inspired by his early experiences connect ...[Continue Reading]
Mcsweeneys.net
1 day ago
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Weekend reading: Real Food, Real Facts
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Charlotte Bilekoff. Real Food, Real Facts: Processed Food and the Politics of Knowledge. University of California Press, 2024. 267 pages. Food processing is a big issue these days (witness RFK Jr ...[Continue Reading]
Foodpolitics.com
1 day ago