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“On one hand, it’s critical to root out research fraud and serious errors. On the other hand, highlighting the most dramatic outliers risks creating the impression that science as a whole can’t be trusted.” When I told my 7-year-old daughter that the recent viral clip of bunnies jumping on a trampoline was fake, she looked […]
“Americans have become terrible at making and keeping friends.”
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One desire felt like it would make me more of who I already was, and the other would unmake me entirely.
In this edition: metal medicine, hyped humanoids, carnival crossroads, divine defiance, and optimization obsession.
“The drag star brought the form mainstream, and made an empire out of queer expression. Now he fears ‘the absolute worst.'”
A brother lost, a son born, and the strange arithmetic of love.
