Articles by littlexsparkee
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Why Is Europe Burning? (newyorker.com)

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Climate Change Is Moving Mountains (theatlantic.com)

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The end of roommates? Why young San Franciscans aren't living with each other (sfchronicle.com)

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How to Survive an Infestation of Toxic Caterpillars (newyorker.com)

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Apple's New Upgrade Program Is a Trap (theatlantic.com)

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What Silicon Valley gets wrong about AI (sfstandard.com)

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Arizona's Declining Groundwater (nasa.gov)

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Strait of Hormuz closure may trigger a bioinvasion super-spreader event (springer.com)

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Equities surpass real estate as top US wealth driver for first time since WW2 (reuters.com)

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Underwater oxygen loss threatens earth's stability, researchers warn (ucsd.edu)

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A Two-Person Startup Has Fixed One of the Most Hated Sounds in Modern Life (wired.com)

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El Niño May Push Global Warming to 2C or Higher in the Short Term (bloomberg.com)

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Trump may need to allow CN minerals as US industry struggles to hit '27 deadline (reuters.com)

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California's economy isn't just bigger than TX and FL – it's growing faster, too (ca.gov)

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Net zero could put global temperatures on a long, slow decline (salatainstitute.harvard.edu)

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America's Big Cities Are Rapidly Losing Kids (wsj.com)

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Carbon footprint of metal production could be >10 times higher than estimated (phys.org)

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Who Gets Saved in the New West? (playboy.com)

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2026 western US snow drought was about 4x more likely due to climate change (pnas.org)

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Recent Modeling Systematically Underestimates Warming from IMO2020 Shipping Regs (copernicus.org)

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Central Valley farmers reluctantly turn to solar as water supplies dry up (latimes.com)

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US Study Finds 1/3 Without CHD Miss New Cholesterol Goals, 75% Go Untreated (massgeneralbrigham.org)

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The Great Barrier Reef is changing. Why isn't it on UNESCO's 'in danger' list? (unsw.edu.au)

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AI Could Shrink Income Tax Revenue and Threaten Economies (bloomberg.com)

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One Man's Quest to Fix Every Deadly Guardrail (newyorker.com)

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Chunk of sea ice has not refrozen in West Antarctica, satellite images show (abcnews.com)

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The Voice of Google (newyorker.com)

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What I got wrong about FIRE (businessinsider.com)

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How to Abandon Your Climate Commitments and Get Away with It (nytimes.com)

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Dave Eggers told OpenAI staff that ChatGPT was 'silencing a generation' (theverge.com)

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Engineered Enzyme Reverses Age-Related Protein Damage (lifespan.io)

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Supplement that binds to microplastics may remove them from our body (newscientist.com)

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Common diet tips about water intake and spicy foods could be dead wrong (cornell.edu)

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More than 100 homes destroyed in Norway fire (reuters.com)

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Will U.S. Households Still Buy Heat Pumps Without a Tax Credit? (energyathaas.wordpress.com)

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The Aral Sea isn't just an ecological nightmare – it's a carbon bomb (grist.org)

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As Blazes Spread Near Paris, Extreme Heat Is Changing How France Fights Fires (nytimes.com)

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The Best Running Shoes You Can't Get Your Hands On (theatlantic.com)

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Barefoot shoes are trendy after years of mockery. Do they work? (slate.com)

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Canada's Forests Will Burn and Burn (theatlantic.com)

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A Chemical from Car Tires May Be Linked to Alzheimer's, New Study Suggests (vice.com)

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Weather App Could Soon Develop Blind Spots (bloomberg.com)

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How A Gang of Thieves Pulled Off a Multimillion-Dollar Data Center Heist (nytimes.com)

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A Stranger Used One Text Message to Steal My Digital Life (time.com)

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The Americans Striking It Rich in the Data-Center Buildout (msn.com)

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Tropical forests facing increasing risks of exposure to critical temp thresholds (pnas.org)

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New Research Indicates That in Future, Trees May Store Less Carbon Than Expected (columbia.edu)

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The Iran War threatened a food crisis. The next Gulf conflict could do the same (reuters.com)

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Do Different GenAI Tools Provide Different Financial Recommendations? (financialplanningassociation.org)

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OpenAI, Anthropic Employees Could Buy ~1/3 of All Homes in SF with IPO Earnings (redfin.com)

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CO2 overload in blood suggests potentially toxic atmosphere within 50 years (springer.com)

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Why Do Some Soccer Players Cut the Heels Off Their Cleats? (wired.com)

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Surgeons face higher infertility rates. UC may make it even harder to have kids (sfstandard.com)

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WTF is happening with Earth's Energy Imbalance? (thetradeoff.substack.com)

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Silicon Valley Wants to Save You from AI Layoffs (theatlantic.com)

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Pets can suffer heatstroke even when resting, UK vets warn (theguardian.com)

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Alcohol consumption doubled in north Russian regions (thebarentsobserver.com)

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The government wants to scare Americans out of sharing the news (freedom.press)

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Too Old for Silicon Valley? Think Again. AI Is Changing the Math (kqed.org)

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Metamorphic sulfur release as a driver of sustained cooling and mass extinction (science.org)

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Should we spray burn scars with glyphosate? Californians reckon w/ grim reality (latimes.com)

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Venture investment smashes an annual record with half a year left to go (sfexaminer.com)

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Syria's solar boom is redefining Middle East's energy model (thenationalnews.com)

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Data Centers Are Quietly Taking over Texas. The Pollution Could Be Catastrophic (wired.com)

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Farmland Atlas: where the land will still be worth farming in the future (farmlandatlas.com)

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Energy Department wants to weaken efficiency standards for home appliances (washingtonpost.com)

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The extraordinary life and quiet death of the largest iceberg (nationalgeographic.com)

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Maybe Anthropic and OpenAI Are Not the Future of Artificial Intelligence (nytimes.com)

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Can geoengineering blunt El Niño's fury? (sciencenews.org)

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America's support for capitalism has declined over last decade (msn.com)

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Obesity rates in the U.S. climbed to about 40% of adults, 20% of youth in 2023 (heart.org)

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Who's Keeping Fossil Fuels Alive? Taxpayers (bloomberg.com)

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New Biological Clues Behind Coffee's Benefit to Liver Health (cedars-sinai.org)

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Baby Busts and Growth Booms: Demographic Change and the Macroeconomy (nber.org)

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New California study finds highly educated workers most harmed by AI (sfgate.com)

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The Purgatory Job Market of 2026 (nytimes.com)

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Nearly 1M people worldwide became millionaires in 2025, UBS report finds (reuters.com)

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June heatwave may have killed around 20k people in Europe (newscientist.com)

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The Shilajit Dilemma (bloomberg.com)

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Healthy but sedentary people show early decline in cellular energy production (cuanschutz.edu)

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Uber-backed Lime rides IPO wave to $1.7B valuation in Nasdaq debut (reuters.com)

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In AI-exposed jobs, only the youngest workers are losing ground (randalolson.com)

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Feds pay Duke Energy $129M for Brunswick County wind lease termination (portcitydaily.com)

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World Bank to abandon goal to devote 45% of lending to climate change projects (reuters.com)

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The Tick That Hunts Down Its Hosts – Including Us (newyorker.com)

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$22,000 per Hour: Assistants Use a Legislative Loophole to Outearn Surgeons (nytimes.com)

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Are Humanoid Robots Ready to Be Deployed? (newyorker.com)

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Israel deployed troops to Somaliland after recognition, source says (middleeasteye.net)

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The Doomers Are All Right (asteriskmag.com)

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Michigan spent $1.8B and only created 602 jobs (msn.com)

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AI Anxiety Is Fueling Burnout Across Silicon Valley's Tech Workers (bloomberg.com)

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Germany urges EU to suspend methane rules after US pressure (ft.com)

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Reversing Ukraine's Population Loss After Four Years of War (thinkglobalhealth.org)

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Is America becoming a gerontocracy? (economist.com)

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The race to understand how and when Thwaites glacier will collapse (newscientist.com)

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Finland's unemployment rate rises to highest level this century (yle.fi)

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China's coal power on the rise again in '26, reversing first-in-a-decade decline (reuters.com)

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Robusta's Reckoning: Vietnam's Coffee Boom Running Out of Forest, Water and Time (coffeewatch.org)

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Dietary guidelines do not yield sufficient flavanol for cardiovascular benefit (rsc.org)

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Not so empty nesters: record-high number of US adults under 35 live at home (theguardian.com)