Articles by bryanrasmussen
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The Fermi Paradox, Percolation, and Inbreeding (reactormag.com)

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A Brief History of Flow (lareviewofbooks.org)

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Topological Defect Propagation to Classify Knitted Fabrics (aps.org)

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The Determinist Fallacy (medium.com/luminasticity)

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Nervé: Some Things Here Are Not Right (royalroad.com)

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Stoicism as a Mass Phenomenon (alejandradeargos.com)

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US "Normalizing Unmanned Aircraft Systems Bvlos Operations" Rule Moves Closer (unmannedairspace.info)

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From A.I To The Deep State, Michel Foucault foresaw it all (nytimes.com)

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The Infinite Policeman – Chapter 2.000000001-> (medium.com/luminasticity)

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Revenue is just an agreement between friends (larp.website)

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The Stubborn Myth of the Literary Genius (2025) (theatlantic.com)

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Who? How Long Are You Known and How Long Do You Influence? (medium.com/the-hitmagist)

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What Broke Monticello (prospect.org)

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When the Heat Steals Your Smile (earthisland.org)

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Terraforming Warfare and International Law (opiniojuris.org)

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Incompetent Content Moderation and Sexy Stuff (medium.com/luminasticity)

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Unearthing the Reality of "Zombie Energy Systems" in Africa's Energy Transition (catf.us)

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Global Ocean Science Report: most complete picture of ocean science (unesco.org)

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Global gridded population datasets underrepresent rural population (2025) (nature.com)

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Merlin: A computed tomography vision–language foundation model and dataset (nature.com)

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We Always Leave Things Unfinished (bigreaderbadgrades.substack.com)

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Great Songs Are Still Being Made: This Is the Killer Speaking (medium.com/the-hitmagist)

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Masked Nocturnal Hypertension and Hidden Organ Risk: A Systematic Review (cureus.com)

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Rescued from the flames: the Cotton Genesis restored to life (bl.uk)

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In a Class of Its Own: The Thematic Cartography of Dr. George F. Jenks (loc.gov)

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Calculating History (sites.google.com)

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Bistro: A general purpose oracle for macroeconomic time series (bis.org)

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Cointegration and Long-Horizon Forecasting (2025) (philadelphiafed.org)

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The Scoundrel Who Steals Fruit and Apologizes Insincerely Is Having a Bad Day (medium.com/luminasticity)

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How do Venus flytraps work? New study sheds light on cellular mechanisms (abc.net.au)

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Summation and Ordering of Logs Regarding Recent Temporal Incident (medium.com/luminasticity)

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Why does a museum want to cancel its own Charles Dickens exhibition? (spiked-online.com)

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The Perceptual Characteristics of Voice-Hallucinations in Deaf People (2006) (nih.gov)

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Physicists Have Measured "Negative Time" in Quantum Experiment (scitechdaily.com)

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Calvino and the Machines (engelsbergideas.com)

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Koalas at risk of death once seven-day temperatures rise beyond 27C (abc.net.au)

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Nearly Everyone, Everywhere, Veers Left When Walking (nytimes.com)

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A Panopticon for All (laviedesidees.fr)

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Forever Young: how one molecule can lock plants in a youthful state (2025) (upenn.edu)

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The Infinite Policeman – Chapter 1.99999999-> Whatever Happened to Dimension ℵ0 (medium.com/luminasticity)

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Manifold topological deep learning for biomedical data (nature.com)

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Why I'm Turning to Textile to Think, Not Just Make (medium.com/the-bad-guy-index)

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ICE Authorized to Detain People Suspected of Emigration from Alternate Realities (medium.com/luminasticity)

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Study reveals brain circuit that keeps memories from getting mixed up (uclahealth.org)

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China vs. Taiwan: The Geography of an Unfinished War (jstribune.com)

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Sparse Autoencoders Reveal Cortical Brain-LLM Semantic Mapping (letsdatascience.com)

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Noioaapps – our tools keep you informed (a dream) (medium.com/luminasticity)

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The Conquest of Hip-Hop – pt. I (medium.com/the-hitmagist)

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Nature's Hardware Store: building the future with biology [video] (aeon.co)

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The Beatles – On Their Old Sound (medium.com/the-hitmagist)

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Earth's supervolcanoes are waking up. Here's what that means for the planet (sciencefocus.com)

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More Stupid Medium Stats Tricks (medium.com/luminasticity)

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Sykes-Picot and Balfour Still Haunt the Modern Middle East (thefridaytimes.com)

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Glacier-free topography reveals potential future lakes in ice-covered terrain (nature.com)

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GTGraffiti: The Robot That Paints Like a Human (gatech.edu)

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The Infinite Policeman – Preliminary Movement (medium.com/luminasticity)

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Stochastic Flocks and the Critical Problem of 'Useful' AI (techpolicy.press)

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'The Dark Wizard' Deconstructs the Mythology of the Dirtbag Rebel (climbing.com)

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The Conquest of Hip-Hop – pt. I (medium.com/the-hitmagist)

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The Conquest of Hip-Hop – pt. I (medium.com/the-hitmagist)

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The Sad Wives of AI (wired.com)

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Why GPTZero is not reliable anymore. We Ran 100k Texts to prove it (ryne.ai)

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Review: A House of Dynamite (medium.com/luminasticity)

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Cartographic digital colonialism across Lebanon and Palestine (middleeastmonitor.com)

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A molecule with half-Möbius topology (science.org)

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Channelized topography amplifies melt-sensitivity of cold Antarctic ice shelves (nature.com)

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Die Hard on ICE (medium.com/luminasticity)

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Refineshot: Rethink Cinematography with Foundational Skill Evaluation (techrxiv.org)

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Simplifying camera trap image analysis with AI (addaxdatascience.com)

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Global Energy Innovation Index (cfr.org)

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Ghost map: Europe's first glimpse of Tenochtitlan shows a city destroyed (bigthink.com)

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Hell Is Not Having Adequate Gear (medium.com/luminasticity)

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Savages of the Sun: The Vanished Race of Tampa Bay (usf.edu)

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From toroids to helical tubules: Kirigami-inspired programmable assembly (pnas.org)

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New satellite view of Tibet's tectonic clash (esa.int)

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Queen (medium.com/the-hitmagist)

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Mapping the dreamworld: inside Le Guin's unseen cartographies of myth and mind (designboom.com)

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Identifying the topographic signature of early Martian oceans (nature.com)

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Pedal History Is in Danger – ChatGPT Is Rewriting Fact – and It's Getting Worse [video] (youtube.com)

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The SPLC indictment, the Klan history behind it, and ignominy of Todd Blanche (lawdork.com)

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TS Eliot's 20th-century nightmare (observer.co.uk)

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How to Wage Economic Warfare (engelsbergideas.com)

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Why Birds Were the Only Dinosaurs to Survive Mass Extinction (scientificamerican.com)

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Moon-joy: they should have sent a poet (so they did) (nothingbutawordbag.substack.com)

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Graphs that explain the state of AI in 2026 (ieee.org)

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Unobtrusive inference of diurnal rhythms from smartphone data (nature.com)

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Hanlon's Razor (wikipedia.org)

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Teddy Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln in the same photo (2010) (archives.gov)

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About Influence (medium.com/the-hitmagist)

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U+237C ⍼ Right Angle with Downwards Zigzag Arrow (ionathan.ch)

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Designated terrestrial protected areas in Europe (europa.eu)

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Insultable Dickens (medium.com/luminasticity)

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Clinical trial shows gene editing works for β-Thalassaemia, too (arstechnica.com)

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Oilfield Units: a Measurement System so Cursed it made me Change Career [video] (youtube.com)

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Conservationists teach young regent honeyeaters how to sing their unique song (abc.net.au)

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The Language After Its Collapse (medium.com/luminasticity)

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Population discontinuity in Paris Basin linked to evidence of Neolithic decline (nature.com)

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Rules for Ranking Music on the Hitmagist (medium.com/the-hitmagist)

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Villa Aurora and Thomas Mann House in Los Angeles (goethe.de)