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Sunday, 13 September 2026

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Breil-Brigels. Lag da Breil. Reservoir with low water level.

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The Conversation
Science & HealthThe Conversation

You remember where you were on 9/11. Four in ten details are wrongYour memories of how you heard about 9/11 may well be wrong – we’ve been asking the same people what they remember for 25 years

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Flashbulb memories of 9/11 are held with enormous confidence, yet about 40% of the details are already wrong within a year, and the errors then freeze in place.

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Jake Gold
TechJake Gold

The man asking AI to slow down should let go firstAn open letter to Dario: if you mean it, open the weights!

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If frontier AI is really to be slowed, regulation only protects incumbents; forcing every public model to ship open weights is the one rule that slows every lab at once.

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Nautilus
Science & HealthNautilusBill Collins

The fossil dug up in India filled in the missing piece of a 550-million-year-old puzzleGondwana Really Was a Supercontinent

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Gondwana only qualifies as a supercontinent because fragments buried under Asian mountains take it from 64% to 80% of the continental landmass — and it was the ring of volcanoes that formed once it assembled that turned Earth from an icehouse into a greenhouse and set off the explosion of life.

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The Honest Broker
Society & IdeasThe Honest BrokerTed Gioia

What put the Nazis in power wasn't war. It was pricesHow a Healthy Society Falls Apart

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It was not the casualties of the First World War but the humiliation and ruin of hyperinflation that pushed Germans into Hitler's arms.

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