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Science A Scheme of Heaven is a deep investigation of astrology from a scientist’s perspective Ferdinando Buscema

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Gadgets Ring does not fight crime, say cops in 8 states whose PDs partnered with Amazon-owned home surveillance Xeni Jardin

Business Fatal car wrecks are correlated with stock-market fluctuations Cory Doctorow

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security Researchers think that adversarial examples could help us maintain privacy from machine learning systems Cory Doctorow

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gender Survey: Self-identified "pro lifers" are generally contemptuous of women Cory Doctorow

nuts Eating nuts helps 'busting a nut' be more fun Jason Weisberger

scholarship Training bias in AI "hate speech detector" means that tweets by Black people are far more likely to be censored Cory Doctorow

economics "Productivity" is a perfect example of the pseudscience underpinning economics Cory Doctorow

computer science "Intellectual Debt": It's bad enough when AI gets its predictions wrong, but it's potentially WORSE when AI gets it right Cory Doctorow

Business Countries with higher levels of unionization have lower per-capita carbon footprints Cory Doctorow

illegitimate presidents Trump poll numbers went up each time Russian Internet Research Agency Twitter accounts became active: Study Xeni Jardin

science fiction Ted Chiang's "Op Ed From the Future": socialized transhumanism vs American oligarchy Cory Doctorow

Science Global sea levels could rise 6 feet by year 2100, twice as high as previous estimates Xeni Jardin