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How to Hack a Superyacht
“GPS is critical to everything from shipping to warfare. Tricking it is ridiculously easy.”
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Joan Lowell and the Birth of the Modern Literary Fraud
“A century ago, an aspiring actress published a remarkable autobiography. She made up most of it.”
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AI Got the Blame for the Iran School Bombing. The Truth is Far More Worrying
“LLMs-gone-rogue dominated coverage, but had nothing to do with the targeting. Instead, it was choices made by human beings, over many years, that gave us this atrocity.”
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On Compost
“I now ignore compost orthodoxy in favour of this one rule: ingredients must have been living (or, like paper, be made from something living)”
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Does Anyone Still Hitchhike?
“Traveling by thumb isn’t popular anymore. Some say it should be.”
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Building a Nest
“Lauren Markham and Jenny Odell discuss people, books, and places as inspiration; grief and the creative process; and the conscious attention required by climate crisis.”
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‘Aren’t the Organs a Silver Lining?’
Complicating a “mixed blessing” of the opioid crisis: a rise in organ donations.
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Bottles, Benches, and Building Connections (Plus Our Top 5)
This edition highlights reading about messages in bottles, public benches, infinity, a series of books about everything, and pay-to-play orchestras.
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In Search of Banksy
“The British street artist’s identity has been debated, and closely guarded, for decades. A quest to solve the riddle took Reuters from a bombed-out Ukrainian village to London and downtown Manhattan—and uncovered much more than a name.”
