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Peter Biles
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August 14, 2026
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Media, Politics
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Douthat Exits New York Times, Final Podcast Hosts Biohacker Bryan Johnson

Should all writers be podcasters, too?
Peter Biles
August 14, 2026
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Media, Politics

He documented the chaos and drama of our political life from the rare perspective of a conservative addressing a largely liberal audience.

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August 13, 2026
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Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind
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Neuroscientists Who Don’t Endorse Materialism Face Career Ruin

In a recent podcast with Pat Flynn, Michael Egnor offers an anecdote that shows how far the field is in the tank for materialism
News
August 13, 2026
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Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind
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Neurosurgeon preparing for brain surgery with the help of a 3D holographic brain model Stock Photo with copy space
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Denyse O'Leary
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August 13, 2026
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Archeology, Evolution, Paleontology, Philosophy of Mind, Psychology
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When Lost Worlds Get Found, Ruling Tenets Get Retired

Archeologists are quietly revising the human origins story in a way that does not follow a Darwinian pattern but they don’t quite come out and say it
Denyse O'Leary
August 13, 2026
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Archeology, Evolution, Paleontology, Philosophy of Mind, Psychology
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Denisovan hunter holding a staff in a prehistoric grassy landscape. The face is based on a reconstruction of a female Denisovan using DNA extracted from a pinky bone discovered in Siberia.
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Jeffrey Funk
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August 10, 2026
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Artificial general intelligence (AGI)
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Did The Tech Bros Trick Us?

They are now trying to push through trillion-dollar IPOs
Jeffrey Funk
August 10, 2026
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Artificial general intelligence (AGI)
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Caution warning sign indicates a potential error danger in the digital technology system. Symbol exclamation, system failure or trouble. Notice important website maintenance and available on internet
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Wesley J. Smith
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August 10, 2026
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Artificial Intelligence, Medicine and Health, Politics
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AI Didn’t Create Artificial Viruses; Humans Did. 

Turning a story about invented viruses into a story about AI obscures the main point
Wesley J. Smith
August 10, 2026
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Artificial Intelligence, Medicine and Health, Politics
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News
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August 7, 2026
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Education, Politics, Science
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How a Prof Learned the Hard Way to Put Science First

The replication crisis forced him to grapple with the fact that he was too committed to ideology to assess truth
News
August 7, 2026
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Education, Politics, Science
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Printed business documents with colorful charts and graphs being analyzed through a magnifying glass
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Denyse O'Leary
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August 7, 2026
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Medicine and Health, Philosophy, Science
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A Science Education Group Tackles the Fauci Hearing and Diary

They have every reason to be concerned about what these revelations about the Covid years are doing to the public perception of science
Denyse O'Leary
August 7, 2026
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Medicine and Health, Philosophy, Science
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Anonymous crowd of people walking street wearing masks during covid 19 coronavirus pandemic in New York City November 2020
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Robert J. Marks
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August 6, 2026
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Artificial general intelligence (AGI), Artificial Intelligence, Media
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The Daily Mail: Clickbait in the AI Arms Race

Contrary to the article’s premise, the AI did not invent any bad behavior. It copied or adapted techniques that are already well known and widely available
Robert J. Marks
August 6, 2026
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Artificial general intelligence (AGI), Artificial Intelligence, Media
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Evil AI agent robot hacking
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Denyse O'Leary
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August 5, 2026
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Medicine and Health, Philosophy, Science
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How NOT to Get More People to Trust Science, in Four Easy Lessons

Ethan Siegel had the singular bad luck to write his condescending column about how we should Trust the Science more in the very wake of Fauci’s Covid “diaries” coming to light…
Denyse O'Leary
August 5, 2026
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Medicine and Health, Philosophy, Science
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Bruce Gordon
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August 5, 2026
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Philosophy, Physics
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Polling Physicists: What the Big Mysteries Survey Shows — and Doesn’t

Physicists who think that the constants of nature are brute facts without need of explanation simply have an incoherent opinion
Bruce Gordon
August 5, 2026
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Philosophy, Physics
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Cosmic Dance of Gravitational Waves: Abstract representation of two merging black holes, emitting luminous, swirling gravitational waves in a cosmic ballet.
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News
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August 4, 2026
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Censorship, Social Media
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How Is Bluesky Doing as a Kinder, Gentler X?

A flurry of scientists and journalists hoped their participation would strike a blow against misinformation and hate
News
August 4, 2026
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Censorship, Social Media
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A vibrant bluebird soars gracefully through a clear blue sky, its wings fully extended in a display of natural beauty and freedom.
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Robert J. Marks
Date
August 3, 2026

Monday Micro Softy 90: Mow Power to You

Why would Charlie's well-maintained lawnmower apparently be losing energy efficiency over the years?
Robert J. Marks
August 3, 2026
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Expert Technician Fixing Lawnmower: Spark Plug Service and Maintenance in Garden Workshop
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Andrew McDiarmid
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August 2, 2026
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Arts & Culture, Business and Finance, Large Language Models (LLMs)
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It’s Time to Buy Old Books Before AI Destroys Them

This book destruction scheme is the brain child of technicians, people who lead tech companies and tech labs who are wholly committed to a technological view of the world
Andrew McDiarmid
August 2, 2026
5
Arts & Culture, Business and Finance, Large Language Models (LLMs)
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