Articles by andsoitis
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Ancient Greek Technology: The Origins of Robotics and Engineering (kotsanas.com)

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My road trip with the do-gooding cactus smugglers (economist.com)

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Is The Economist Always Wrong? (economist.com)

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Birdsong data from Merlin ID app to help global biodiversity project (theguardian.com)

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Dolosse – a South African invention used over the world (thisbugslife.com)

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After $18B IPO, Bending Spoons founder says success comes from minimizing luck (techcrunch.com)

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Bending Spoons Reviving AOL, Vimeo and Other Internet Oldies Amid the A.I. Boom (nytimes.com)

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Scientists can now study the event horizons of black holes (economist.com)

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Techno in a Monastery (theguardian.com)

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America should not imprison frontier AI (economist.com)

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Circle of Empathy (cirquedusoleil.com)

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Your AI lover will change you (newyorker.com)

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MacBasic (1985) (folklore.org)

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Why I Don't Believe in Machine Consciousness – Jaron Lanier (jaronlanier.com)

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Albania warned EU accession at risk over Jared Kushner-backed resort plans (theguardian.com)

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Scientists have built a cell from the ground up (economist.com)

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Thomas Jefferson's descendant on his family's complex legacy (theguardian.com)

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Medieval-style fortifications are back in the Sahel (economist.com)

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Qihoo 360: The Cyber Giant Behind China's Mythos Rival (forbes.com/sites/the-wiretap)

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University-for-all harms poor students the most (economist.com)

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Rapid spread of AI may worsen global inequality, UN warns (theguardian.com)

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SETI Institute Jobs (seti.org)

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Americans see their country's past, present and future (economist.com)

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SpaceX may donate stock to Trump's savings accounts for kids (arstechnica.com)

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300k-Year-Old Cave Site Explored in Northern Israel (archaeology.org)

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New EV-makers keep appearing in China (economist.com)

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Study suggests most Americans would be healthier without daylight saving time (2025) (stanford.edu)

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Students are doing worse than you think (economist.com)

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Should every baby's DNA be sequenced? (economist.com)

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Cyberpunk Edgerunners 2 is releasing this year (kitguru.net)

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AI models' values are different from most people's (economist.com)

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Universal Basic Income (wikipedia.org)

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Teaching AI how people work is fraught with problems (economist.com)

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David Sedaris on his Duolingo obsession (theguardian.com)

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China cracks down on rule-bending offshore investments (economist.com)

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Why can't India's government build a decent website? (economist.com)

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Reimagining Systems Thinking as Cybersystemic Researching (syscoi.com)

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California's landmark anti-plastics law sparks anger as 17 states move to sue (theguardian.com)

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If you thought the global financial crisis was bad (economist.com)

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What Barbarians Like to Take Private (gmo.com)

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Almost always look on the bright side of life (economist.com)

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Grantham Warns U.S. Stocks Could Plunge 70% / Most Expensive Market in History (247wallst.com)

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Democrats and Republicans agree: AI is scary (economist.com)

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[dupe] The BBC switches off its oldest service (economist.com)

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The AI backlash is only getting started (economist.com)

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Why are we so obsessed with lawns? (gardensillustrated.com)

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The Ancient Horsemen Who Created the Modern World [pdf] (hms.harvard.edu)

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Draft Sequence of the Neandertal Genome (2010) (nih.gov)

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Ancient DNA Found on Cave Walls (miragenews.com)

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Alternatives to Nested If Function (medium.com/crispomwangi)

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Zombie unicorns are haunting Silicon Valley (economist.com)

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Electronics can now be printed onto living tissues (economist.com)

2

History of Spell Checkers (inkbotediting.com)

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Lippmann Color Plates (eastman.org)

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Lippmann Photography (jonhilty.com)

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The war on terror primed America for autocracy (economist.com)

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Child care is becoming more affordable (economist.com)

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Dataland, an intense new AI art museum (economist.com)

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Bicameral, Not Homoiconic (parentheticallyspeaking.org)

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China is having another AI moment (economist.com)

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Consciousness and Orch OR (arizona.edu)

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Zombie unicorns are haunting Silicon Valley (economist.com)

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The disappearance of Japan's animators (economist.com)

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Transdisciplinarity, neuro-techno-philosophy, and the future of philosophy (wiley.com)

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The Wonderful Walkabouts of Harmen Hoek (jeffpolman.com)

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How to Attract Bats to Your Backyard (batcon.org)

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Claude Monet (claudemonetgallery.org)

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Europe buys the future, America builds it (economist.com)

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Don't Restrict Chinese Biotech (economist.com)

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Lost Roman Villa Uncovered After 'Clandestine' Excavation (artnet.com)

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The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News (2019) (newyorker.com)

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The Flat Curve Society (steve-yegge.medium.com)

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AI has granted America new power (economist.com)

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Office workers of the world unite: it's time to revive the three-martini lunch (theguardian.com)

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Update on Ocean Observatories Initiative (nsf.gov)

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Barack Obama has built a monument to himself (economist.com)

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America's bull market has entered its manic phase (economist.com)

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Horizons (nasa.gov)

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The coming El Niño could be the strongest ever recorded (economist.com)

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California's tectonic systems at highest levels of stress in 1k years (theguardian.com)

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OpenAI's leaked financials reveal soaring losses as it prepares to go public (groups.google.com)

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How to get empowered, not overpowered, by AI (2018) [video] (ted.com)

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Humanity isn't ready for the coming intelligence explosion (economist.com)

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Techno-libertarians are flocking to the Caribbean (economist.com)

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China is innovative. Its economy is a mess. Which matters more? (economist.com)

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Netflix has an ambitious milestone in sight for 2027 (thestreet.com)

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Scientists Identify 2 Distinct Subtypes of Autism in the Brain (sciencealert.com)

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Calculations Suggest It'll Be Impossible to Control a Super-Intelligent AI (sciencealert.com)

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Condom-maker is getting squeezed (economist.com)

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Companies are scrambling to curtail soaring AI costs (economist.com)

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The Aeneid by Virgil (19B.C.E) (classics.mit.edu)

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How to Share AI Riches (economist.com)

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S&P's decision not to include SpaceX is a mistake (seekingalpha.com)

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Dangerous hormone-disrupting chemicals found in US breast milk samples (theguardian.com)

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Metamodernism: The cultural philosophy of the digital age (nesslabs.com)

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Identifying Life-Changing Books with LLMs (joellehman.com)

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Why greatness cannot be planned (yinuoli.org)

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New pancreatic cancer drug might open the door to much longer survival times (economist.com)

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Too many people are shockingly bad at prioritisation (economist.com)

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Techno-libertarians are flocking to the Caribbean (economist.com)