Café and restaurant “Marienhöhe”, Norderney, Lower Saxony, Germany
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Meditation, touted as a panacea for mental and physical ills, can cause severe and lasting side effects—anxiety, depression, even psychosis—for about 10% of practitioners.
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The feeling that time is speeding up is not a malfunction of some internal clock but a side effect of digital media, which overstimulates us yet starves us of the novel experiences needed to form memories, hollowing out our retrospective sense of time.
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A law written for industrial chemicals was mistakenly applied to genetically engineered microbes, caging many potentially world-benefiting organisms inside laboratories.
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In the American South, Chinese Americans fought to be considered white rather than Black, going so far as to establish Chinese-only schools, a strategy that exposed the contradictions of segregation.
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Amazon's most profitable business isn't selling goods or cloud service but search result 'ads'; it even cheats on this bribery system, squeezing sellers even harder.
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The real challenge is not building automation tools—it's discovering that you need one—and AI merely moves the threshold, not the problem.
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Flock publicly markets its cameras as harmless static image tools for solving crimes, but in training webinars it teaches police to use its system for round-the-clock surveillance of protests and daily life — its real pitch is far more invasive than its public image suggests.
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Dog shows, which claim to preserve historical ideals of breeds, are actually a profit-driven exercise in creating living taxidermy that distorts breeds' true history and function.
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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that federal courts cannot review most TPS terminations, leaving about a million people facing loss of status and possibly deportation without clear legal recourse.
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Chinese businesses are turning AI tokens into a new kind of giveaway and marketing gimmick, giving ordinary people cheap or free compute — a sign of a coming differentiation race centered on compute consumption.
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Linus Torvalds became the first 1000x programmer not just because of his extraordinary skill, but because creating Linux gave him the control to design his own optimal way of working.
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OpenClaw 2.0, with 16,000 PRs merged by AI without human review, exposes the risks of AI-generated code and a trend toward a homogenized software ecosystem.
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US-China cooperation on AI safety should avoid grand, all-encompassing agreements; instead, it should begin with the most tractable, concrete technical issues to build trust and progress gradually.
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A Dutch study finds microplastics in every home sampled, mostly generated indoors, and vacuuming may actually increase levels of the harmful polycarbonate kind.
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Most provisions of the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act are unlikely to have a meaningful impact on housing supply, with the few potentially significant changes concentrated in a handful of independent sections.
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Around three-quarters of annual US corporate investment merely offsets depreciation of existing assets, leaving only a quarter that actually expands productive capacity.
