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Quantum Computing Is Dead. Long Live Quantum Computing! | WIRED

#computing #quantum | Schrödinger’s cat is alive and dead at the same time. Ironically enough, so is quantum computing.

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Indie Games Like 'Balatro' Are Thriving Where AAA Titles Fail

#gaming #indie | Balatro, 1000xResist, and Another Crab's Treasure are finding new ways to make development more sustainable

2 months ago | View Shared by phocks
How a Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias

#leaks #undercover | Disgusted by Jan. 6, John Williams set out on a two-year undercover operation. The one person he told was a ProPublica reporter.

2 months ago | View Shared by phocks
The Plagiarism Plot Is Having a Moment. Copy That.

#books #writing | You could assemble an entire library of contemporary work fixated on literary imitation, appropriation and theft.

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The Man Who Invented Modern Probability

#mathematics #probability | Chance encounters in the life of Andrei Kolmogorov.

Left me wanting to know a lot more about the actual mathematics behind the man. Might do some more research on my own.

2 months ago | View Shared by phocks
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Factory farming: How can we stop it? Why should we?

#animals #factory-farming | The modern meat industry is cruel, unsustainable, and unnecessary. Here’s how we fight it.

3 months ago | View Shared by phocks
Revealed: the Operators Behind Four Major Neo-Nazi X Accounts

#culture #society | Anonymity has long been a tactic used by extremists to spread their ideology while avoiding social consequences, from Klansmen hoods to online pseudonyms.

3 months ago | View Shared by phocks
The Drama and Suffering of the World Chess Championship

#chess #games | A dispatch from the pivotal Game 11 in Singapore that helped make Gukesh Dommaraju an 18-year-old chess champion.

3 months ago | View Shared by phocks
Alien Dreams: The Surprisingly Long History of Speculation About Extraterrestrials

#aliens #history | The idea that other worlds might be home to alien beings has been part of our thought for as long as we have been looking skyward.

3 months ago | View Shared by phocks
This dog-like predator is the oldest known mammal ancestor | Popular Science

#evolution #science | The 280-million-year-old bones of this saber-toothed predator were uncovered in Spain.

3 months ago | View Shared by phocks
The Best True Crime Podcasts of 2024

#audio #podcasts | True crime is consistently the most popular genre in podcasting, which makes it really tricky to narrow it down to a best-of. After listening to literally days of podcasts in 2024 these are the ones I could not stop texting my friends about.

3 months ago | View Shared by phocks
Effective Ways to Advocate for Animals

#activism #animal-rights | Whether you are new to animal advocacy and just getting started or you’re a seasoned animal activist, there are many effective ways to advocate for animals.

3 months ago | View Shared by phocks
What most people think they know about the Big Bang is wrong

#cosmology #science | Many textbooks and science educators have attempted to describe the Big Bang as an explosion of matter that birthed the universe. Here's why that's incorrect thinking.

3 months ago | View Shared by phocks
Luigi Mangione and the Making of a Modern Antihero

#culture #society | Jessica Winter writes about the American tradition of the outlaw and how Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the UnitedHealthcare murder, measures up to the myth.

3 months ago | View Shared by phocks
How Public Key Cryptography Really Works

#encryption #mathematics | The security system that underlies the internet makes use of a curious fact: You can broadcast part of your encryption to make your information much more secure.

3 months ago | View Shared by phocks
High-fat diet proven to fuel prostate cancer progression by imitating a key cancer alteration

#health #science | What molecular event happens for prostate cancer to progress faster and to be deadlier when patients eat a high-fat diet? This is the question Dr. David P. Labbé, a scientist at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC), and his colleagues recently elucidated. In a study published in Nature Communications, they showed that saturated fat intake induces a cellular reprogramming that is associated with prostate cancer progression and lethality. These findings could have a clinical utility in identifying patients at higher risk of a more aggressive, lethal disease. In addition, they suggest that dietary intervention involving the reduction of animal fat, and specifically saturated fat consumption in men with early-stage prostate cancer, could possibly diminish or delay the risk of disease progression.

3 months ago | View Shared by phocks
How Michael Vick’s dogfighting case changed animal welfare

Twelve years ago, 47 dogs were rescued from Michael Vick’s dogfighting operation and allowed to live. They've enriched the lives of countless humans and altered the course of animal welfare.

3 months ago | View Shared by phocks
Twist on ‘survival of the fittest' could explain how reality emerges from the quantum haze

#physics #science | Subtle experiment with an electron trapped in diamond tests theory of quantum Darwinism

3 months ago | View Shared by phocks
All 169 ‘Seinfeld’ Episodes, Ranked From Worst to Best

#television | ‘Seinfeld’ ended 25 years ago with an infamous series finale. What are the best ‘Seinfeld’ episodes, and what are the worst? We ranked every single episode of the show to find out just that.

3 months ago | View Shared by phocks
When a Stranger Decides to Destroy Your Life

#crime #society | Monika Glennon has lived in Huntsville, Alabama, for the last 12 years. Other than a strong Polish accent, she fits a certain stereotype of the

3 months ago | View Shared by phocks
How and why did religion evolve?

#religion #society | Humanity’s most puzzling behaviour has deep roots in our evolutionary past

3 months ago | View Shared by phocks
Nuance: A Love Story.

My affair with the intellectual dark web.

3 months ago | View Shared by phocks
This Video Explores Starship Troopers’ Messy Satirical Relationship With Fascism

#film #politics | Starship Troopers is a seductive satire. Let’s dig into why, and how. In a thoughtful new video posted by YouTube channel Wisecrack, the creators of the

3 months ago | View Shared by phocks
The Problem with Scientific Credit

#research #science | Our algorithm said a courtesy driver should have won the Nobel Prize.

3 months ago | View Shared by phocks
Three Feet From God: An Oral History of Nirvana ‘Unplugged’

#music | Twenty-five years after the historic performance that became the band’s best-selling final album, we talked to producers, directors, musicians, and fans present for Kurt Cobain and Nirvana’s greatest performance

3 months ago | View Shared by phocks
How the Amazon's 'Boiling River' foreshadows a warmer world

#nature | The Boiling River regularly reaches 86C – with drastic consequences for the surrounding rainforest.

This is amazing.

3 months ago | View Shared by phocks
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The Gambler Who Beat Roulette

#gambling #longform | For decades, casinos scoffed as mathematicians and physicists devised elaborate systems to take down the house. Then an unassuming Croatian’s winning strategy forever changed the game.

3 months ago | View Shared by phocks
How StumbleUpon pioneered the way we use the internet

#internet | StumbleUpon, a tool that led users to random websites, had a stranglehold on millennials in the 2010s. Its influence echoes through everything we do online.

3 months ago | View Shared by phocks
Exploring The Boundaries Of Consciousness

#animals #consciousness | A journey into the mystical hillsides of Nepal in search of answers to questions about which beings we can call conscious.

3 months ago | View Shared by phocks
The Gilded Age of Medicine Is Here

#health #insurance #medicine | Health insurers and hospitals increasingly treat patients less as humans in need of care than consumers who generate profit.

3 months ago | View Shared by phocks

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