How to Tell if a Conspiracy Theory Is Probably False - The Good Men Project
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The Good Men Project
How to Tell if a Conspiracy Theory Is Probably False
The extreme consequences of unfounded conspiratorial beliefs could be seen on the staircases of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and in the self-immolation of a protestor outside the courthouse holding the latest Trump trial.
How scammers from Bernie Madoff to SBF use our fantasies to manipulate our brains
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https://fortune.com/2024/07/11/scammers-bernie-madoff-sbf-fantasies-manipulate-brains/
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When did the Olympics start? Inside the ancient ritual that lives on.
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/2024/05/11/when-did-the-olympics-start/73498623007/
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USA TODAY
When did the Olympics start? How the modern Summer and Winter Games came to be.
Compete naked and covered in oil? Not quite. The modern-day Olympic Games are quite different from the ancient ones. Here's when they first started.
Why Earth's oceans aren't all equally salty
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https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/salinity-of-seas-and-oceans/
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Big Think
Why Earth's oceans aren't all equally salty
The global average salt level in surface seawater is about 35 grams (seven teaspoons, give or take) per 1,000 grams of water (about a quart).
Touch Screens Are Over. Even Apple Is Bringing Back Buttons.
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https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/touch-screens-are-over-even-apple-is-bringing-back-buttons-86fb9ea8
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The Wall Street Journal
Touch Screens Are Over. Even Apple Is Bringing Back Buttons.
Product designers are embracing how users actually feel after years of pushing flat and sleek
What do we mean by “luck”? We might say that someone has been lucky, or unlucky, if they have benefited or been harmed by something that was unpredictable and beyond their control. Luck has been called “the operation of chance, taken personally”.
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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/oct/07/the-big-idea-should-we-be-thinking-about-luck-differently/
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the Guardian
The big idea: should we be thinking about luck differently?
We tend to focus on good or bad fortune, successes and failures. But what about the fact you’re here at all?
How the Rubik’s Cube has lived to 50 years—and continues to find fans among Gen Z
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https://fortune.com/europe/article/rubiks-cube-selling-millions-50-years-gen-z-digital-shift/?
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Fortune Europe
How the Rubik’s Cube has lived to 50 years—and continues to be a rage among Gen Z and beyond
For 79-year-old Erno Rubik who founded mind-bending puzzle in Hungary, there's more to the Cube than what meets the eye.
This Was the Year of the Influencer Political Takeover
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WIRED
This Was the Year of the Influencer Political Takeover
Politicians fully embraced the creator economy in 2024, blurring the lines between punditry and journalism. By 2028, the lawmakers could become creators themselves.
Satire | How to overcome brain rot - The Hindu
Anyway, if we can make a brain-shaped thingie that combines the latest ChatGPT engine with Elon Musk’s Neuralink and a miniature CCTV camera, we should be able to do away with the brain while retaining its core functionalities — interfacing with screens and generating an endless stream of data. With the latest advances in AI-enabled neurosurgery, the procedure should be a cakewalk. Either way, with a brain or without one, I wish you a brain-rot-free New Year.
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https://www.thehindu.com/society/satire-column-allegedly-brain-rot-oxford-university-press-word-of-the-year-2024/article68995255.ece
Anyway, if we can make a brain-shaped thingie that combines the latest ChatGPT engine with Elon Musk’s Neuralink and a miniature CCTV camera, we should be able to do away with the brain while retaining its core functionalities — interfacing with screens and generating an endless stream of data. With the latest advances in AI-enabled neurosurgery, the procedure should be a cakewalk. Either way, with a brain or without one, I wish you a brain-rot-free New Year.
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https://www.thehindu.com/society/satire-column-allegedly-brain-rot-oxford-university-press-word-of-the-year-2024/article68995255.ece
The Hindu
Satire | How to overcome brain rot
Discover the concept of 'brain rot' in a humorous yet thought-provoking satire by The Hindu's Social Affairs Editor.
Hunters, Dancers, and Busybodies: New Study Examines the Three Main Internet Research Styles
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Mental Floss
Hunters, Dancers, and Busybodies: New Study Examines the Three Main Internet Research Styles
Your online research method may say something about you.
Bill Gates: How Paul Allen and I landed on the idea for Microsoft
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https://fortune.com/2025/02/04/bill-gates-source-code-software-microsoft-origins/
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Fortune
How Paul Allen and Bill Gates landed on the idea for Microsoft after cycling through many other startup ideas | Fortune
Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates recalls his early thinking on hardware vs. software in an excerpt from his latest book.
Walt Whitman’s Advice on Living a Vibrant and Rewarding Life – The Marginalian
https://www.themarginalian.org/2016/05/31/walt-whitman-leaves-of-grass-preface/
https://www.themarginalian.org/2016/05/31/walt-whitman-leaves-of-grass-preface/
The Marginalian
Walt Whitman’s Advice on Living a Vibrant and Rewarding Life
“Love the earth and sun and the animals… re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul…”
How words are disappearing from our digital lives
https://www.livemint.com/mint-lounge/ideas/words-being-replaced-by-emojis-stickers-ai-suggestions-in-digital-communication-11764306781625.html
https://www.livemint.com/mint-lounge/ideas/words-being-replaced-by-emojis-stickers-ai-suggestions-in-digital-communication-11764306781625.html
mint
How words are disappearing from our digital lives
Emojis, GIFs, stickers, reacjis and AI-generated suggestions occupy the spaces where sentences framed by humans once thrived, leaving us to contend with how this changes the way we express, connect with, and understand each other and ourselves
To become wiser, society must relearn how to fail - Big Think
https://bigthink.com/mini-philosophy/to-become-wiser-society-must-relearn-how-to-fail/
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Big Think
To become wiser, society must relearn how to fail
We know that wisdom requires trial and error on an individual level. So why are we so unwilling to allow governments to do so?
Death to one-time text codes: Passkeys are the new hotness • The Register
https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/06/multifactor_authentication_passkeys/
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The Register
Death to one-time text codes: Passkeys are the new hotness in MFA
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Why India Fell Off the Global Middle-Class Map - Bloomberg
The top 1% Indians own 40% of overall personal wealth, but Gen-Z billionaires are bored with business. They would rather park their fortunes in family offices than start new enterprises. In the Soviet-styled planned economy that extended up to the 1980s, their grandparents scrambled for licenses. Nowadays, their parents just fight each other for a favorable government policy and haggle with private-credit firms for refinancing.
An unambitious elite spoiled by finance — plus a working class held back by inadequate education and inequities of caste and gender — are stymying the emergence of a global middle class in India. The social change that can fill the gap is nowhere on the horizon.
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The top 1% Indians own 40% of overall personal wealth, but Gen-Z billionaires are bored with business. They would rather park their fortunes in family offices than start new enterprises. In the Soviet-styled planned economy that extended up to the 1980s, their grandparents scrambled for licenses. Nowadays, their parents just fight each other for a favorable government policy and haggle with private-credit firms for refinancing.
An unambitious elite spoiled by finance — plus a working class held back by inadequate education and inequities of caste and gender — are stymying the emergence of a global middle class in India. The social change that can fill the gap is nowhere on the horizon.
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Why India Fell Off the Global Middle-Class Map - Bloomberg
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The top 1% Indians own 40% of overall personal wealth, but Gen-Z billionaires are bored with business. They would rather park their fortunes in family offices than start new enterprises. In the Soviet-styled planned economy that extended up to the 1980s, their grandparents scrambled for licenses. Nowadays, their parents just fight each other for a favorable government policy and haggle with private-credit firms for refinancing.
An unambitious elite spoiled by finance — plus a working class held back by inadequate education and inequities of caste and gender — are stymying the emergence of a global middle class in India. The social change that can fill the gap is nowhere on the horizon.
An unambitious elite spoiled by finance — plus a working class held back by inadequate education and inequities of caste and gender — are stymying the emergence of a global middle class in India. The social change that can fill the gap is nowhere on the horizon.
Scarpetta to Rooster: 12 of the best TV shows to watch this March
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https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20260223-12-of-the-best-tv-shows-to-watch-this-march?_medium=email
Bbc
Scarpetta to Rooster: 12 of the best TV shows to watch this March
From Nicole Kidman's latest crime thriller to a new sitcom from Ted Lasso creator Bill Lawrence, starring Steve Carell, and the return of The Comeback.