Entries from August 2022 ↓

• Did My Cat Just Hit On Me? An Adventure in Pet Translation – The New York Times
• The mullet’s resurgence divides Australia | The Economist
• Associations of ultra-processed food consumption with cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality: UK Biobank – PubMed
• The Paris Review – Against August – The Paris Review
• The Joy of Being Alone – by lyz – Men Yell at Me
• Tom Cruise’s career renaissance and Scientology background, explained – Vox

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• Major sea-level rise caused by melting of Greenland ice cap is ‘now inevitable’ | Sea level | The Guardian
• Say goodbye to Lake Powell and hello to Glen Canyon National Park, the Editorial Board writes
• Europe’s plan to wean itself off Russian gas just might work
• Study investigates factors that influence immune responses over 15 months after SARS-CoV-2 infection
• Historical prevalence of slavery predicts contemporary American gun ownership | PNAS Nexus | Oxford Academic
• Octopuses Don’t Have Backbones — or Rights
  As cephalopods become more important in neuroscience and other fields, scientists and welfare advocates seek to give the smart animals the same protections as mice and monkeys.
• Optimizing and Unifying Infection Control Precautions for Respiratory Viral Infections | The Journal of Infectious Diseases | Oxford Academic
  Supposedly a great article
• When History Happens ? Current Affairs
  on Connie Willis
• Why did we ignore Yale psychiatrist Bandy Lee about Trump? — Mother Jones
  Yale psychiatrist Bandy Lee was thrown under the bus for sounding the alarm about Donald Trump. Turns out she was right.
• The cruise ship conflict: Europe’s port cities vs floating hotels | Financial Times

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• Biden team aims for omicron-targeted shots in arms by Labor Day
  The so-called bivalent vaccines are designed to better protect against subvariants of the virus that are now dominant in the U.S., BA. 4 and BA.5.
• The number of companies caught up in the Twilio hack keeps growing — Ars Technica
  2FA provider Authy, password manager LastPass, and DoorDash all experienced breaches.
• Connie Willis’ Doomsday Book: Classic SF About Pandemics Explores Faith in Both Science and Spirituality
• As Colorado River Dries, the U.S. Teeters on the Brink of Larger Water Crisis
  "I don’t think we’re talking about sustainability. I think we’re talking about managed depletion. Because it’s impossible to keep growing the food that we grow in California… The math just isn’t there to have sustainable groundwater management."

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• On the Infrastructure Providers That Support Misinformation Websites | Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
• Near miss on nuclear disaster at Zaporizhzhia plant, Zelensky says
• The Mannahatta Project
  What did New York look like before we arrived?
• life is inconceivable
• When Private Equity Takes Over a Nursing Home
  After an investment firm bought St. Joseph’s Home for the Aged, in Richmond, Virginia, the company reduced staff, removed amenities, and set the stage for a deadly outbreak of COVID-19.
• A Common Over-The-Counter Drug Could Treat Long COVID, Case Study Reports : ScienceAlert

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• Opinion | If You’re Suffering After Being Sick With Covid, It’s Not Just in Your Head
  A major new approach is needed to solve many postviral conditions.
• GitHub – refined-github/refined-github: Browser extension that simplifies the GitHub interface and adds useful features
• Mild COVID Linked to Brain Damage: What That Means for You
  A study linked mild COVID to brain damage. Read how this fits with known long COVID causes and what it means for effective treatment options.
• Your Doppelgänger Is Out There and You Probably Share DNA With Them – The New York Times
• A Strong 'Bat Signal' Appears on Texas Weather Radar
• Self-made millionaire homeowner: You don't need to buy a home—'renting is totally reasonable for your entire life'
• Sleep loss leads to the withdrawal of human helping across individuals, groups, and large-scale societies
  Excellent work, sleep loss decreases our desire to be helpful and activity in brain networks associated with social awareness. In short, losing sleep makes you an asshole. #GoToBedNow https://twitter.com/etoosh/status/1562207464778375178
• FBI’s Mar-a-Lago search followed months of resistance, delay by Trump

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• Evidence for an enterovirus as the cause of encephalitis lethargica

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• The Nora Ephron We Forget | The New Yorker
• Why anti-abortion activists won’t stop at Roe.
• Incredible Webb Space Telescope Images of Jupiter Showcase Auroras, Hazes, Moons & Rings
• [The Washington Post] Files copied from voting systems were shared with Trump supporters, election deniers
• The Dolly Moment – by Tressie McMillan Cottom – essaying
• Women’s New Take on Ambition in 2022
• [The Washington Post] You’re charging wrong: 5 ways to make gadget batteries last longer
• [The Washington Post] ‘Quiet quitting’ isn’t really about quitting. Here are the signs.
• Op-Ed: We're starting to understand 'long COVID.' We can fight it – Los Angeles Times
• GitHub – molly/static-timeline-generator: Create static timeline webpages.
• Issue 1 – Sub-primate lending
  Molly White
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• first conference to take a more skeptical view of cryptocurrencies and blockchains
• Issue 0 – Introduction
  Molly White
• Disconnect from work and let the horses of Iceland reply to your emails while you are on vacation. (Seriously)
  Disconnect from work and let the horses of Iceland reply to your emails while you are on vacation. (Seriously)
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• How Google Cloud blocked largest Layer 7 DDoS attack yet, 46 million rps | Google Cloud Blog
• Top 8 Things to Do in Vienna on a Danube River Cruise
• Three reasons why we're drawn to faces in film | OUPblog
• Danube Cycle Path
  Danube water levels
• Low water levels trap dozens of ships in Romanian Danube port
  Some 64 ships have been forced to wait for dredgers in the Danube port of Zimnicea due to record low water levels making the river unnavigable. In some areas, the water is only one and a half meters deep. Navigation on the Danube has been restricted for two weeks. Only vessels with a maximum…
• Trashing: The Dark Side of Sisterhood
• Horizontal Hostility – by Ian Leslie – The Ruffian
• Activism isn't for everyone
  Why academics and journalists shouldn’t take sides
• Wish you weren’t here: the photos that show an hour in the life of ‘quiet’ tourist hotspots | Travel | The Guardian

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• Beyond The Frame: American Graffiti – The American Society of Cinematographers
• FSB errors played crucial role in Russia's failed war plans in Ukraine – Washington Post
• Rewilding Is Good for the Environment—but It’s Good for You, Too – NEO.LIFE

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• Gig Guide | SydneyMusic.net – Sydney's live music community guide
  SydneyMusic.net is your guide to music in Sydney, with a gig guide, a Discord community and stuff to read.
• What I Think About Atlas Shrugged – Whatever
• How a Jet-Setting Socialite Saved One of Europe’s Most Stunning Castles
  â??I see myself as a housewife and artist more than a businesswoman.â?
• The Great Divergence – Five Books Expert Recommendations
• Watch "Nichols And May At Work" on YouTube
• World’s largest ice sheet threatened by warm water surge

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• Inside the Crash of Three Arrows Capital

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• How the historic climate bill will dramatically reduce U.S. emissions — National Geographic
  The Inflation Reduction Act is expected to cut roughly a billion tons of greenhouse gas emissions a year by 2030, save thousands of lives a year, and prompt a transformation of the U.S. energy and transportation landscape.
• As a cancer patient I felt dismissed by doctors. As a doctor, I am desperate for the system to change — Guardian US
  When Ben Bravery began studying medicine after surviving bowel cancer he found something missing from the curriculum – patients

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