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Please be dying, but not too quickly: a clinical trial story (bessstillman.substack.com)

‘They treated me like an animal’: how Filipino domestic workers become trapped (www.theguardian.com)

California wildfires and climate change is accelerating gentrification (www.washingtonpost.com)

Why Your Name Matters (www.newyorker.com)

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Escape from the rabbit hole: the conspiracy theorist who abandoned his dangerous beliefs (www.theguardian.com)

It's not just you. LinkedIn has gotten really weird. (www.businessinsider.com)

Sites in Ohio may be as vital to human history as the pyramids. Why have they been ignored for so long? (slate.com)

Lead poisoning has a far greater impact on global health than previously thought, potentially contributing to over five million deaths a year and posing a similar threat to air pollution. (www.theinnovativehorizon.com)

Habitual social media users post real and fake news mindlessly (dornsife.usc.edu)

Investigating the Nord Stream Attack: All the Evidence Points To Kyiv (www.spiegel.de)

The price of ‘sugar free’: are sweeteners as harmless as we thought? (www.theguardian.com)

In an era when sugar is widely seen as enemy No 1, sugar-free drinks and treats, sweetened with low-calorie additives, promise guilt-free sweetness. Some people deliberately choose low-sugar options in the hope of losing weight or managing diabetes; others just enjoy the taste. But even if you aren’t seeking them out, it’s...

New Yorker - Elon Musk’s Shadow Rule - How the U.S. government came to rely on the tech billionaire—and is now struggling to rein him in. (web.archive.org)

The Case for Leaving Strangers in Your Family Photos (slate.com)

Your attention didn’t collapse. It was stolen (www.theguardian.com)

Social media and many other facets of modern life are destroying our ability to concentrate. We need to reclaim our minds while we still can

Titan meets Titanic (maptia.com)

An article about the Titan from 2021 History was made on July 10, 2021, when Stockton Rush and his team at OceanGate reached the Titanic, at a depth of approximately 4,000 metres, in Titan, the only submersible of its kind

I Was A Cable Guy. I Saw The Worst Of America. (www.huffingtonpost.com)

A glimpse of the suburban grotesque, featuring Russian mobsters, Fox News rage addicts, a caged man in a sex dungeon, and Dick Cheney

Inside North Korea: “We are stuck, waiting to die” (www.bbc.co.uk)

For months, the BBC has been communicating in secret with three North Koreans living in the country.

My family's slave (www.theatlantic.com)

“She lived with us for 56 years. She raised me and my siblings without pay. I was 11, a typical American kid, before I realized who she was”

What is Code? (www.bloomberg.com)

Paul Ford goes on a long, meandering, but super interesting account of code as it relates to business and our world today.

The Watcher (www.thecut.com)

The true story behind the Netflix tv show: A family bought their dream house. But according to the creepy letters they started to get, they weren’t the only ones interested in it.

The Body in Room 348 (www.vanityfair.com)

The corpse at the Eleganté Hotel stymied the Beaumont, Texas, police. They could find no motive for the killing of popular oil-and-gas man Greg Fleniken—and no explanation for how he had received his strange internal injuries.

The hunt for the Death Valley Germans (www.otherhand.org)

One of the greatest longreads of all time. The tragic story of the search for missing tourists in Death Valley

This article is about the survivor of an iron bar through the head (en.wikipedia.org)

An interesting Wikipedia article about a man who survived an explosion which shot an iron bar through his skull....

Singapore researchers discover omega-3 lipid's potential to combat fatty liver disease. (www.theinnovativehorizon.com)

Research from Duke-NUS Medical School reveals the omega-3 transporter protein, Mfsd2a, can prevent excessive liver fat storage, offering potential prevention against non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). The key lies in phospholipids, especially those containing omega-3 fatty acid DHA. The team aims to validate these...