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Ancient DNA from three fossils in Arctic Yukon extends the extinct American cheetahs known range by more than 20 degrees of latitude, and the nitrogen in their bones sits higher than in any other Ice Age carnivore of the same period and region the study
Chris Jeremia
A team led by Molly Cassatt-Johnstone at the University of California, Santa Cruz reports in Current Biology that three Ice Age cat fossils from the Yukon Territory, tentatively identified as puma, a ...[Continue Reading]
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How post-9/11 Islamophobia sparked a Muslim political awakening in NYC
Arya Sundaram
Just a few days after the 9/11 attacks, then-16-year-old Faiza Ali was wearing a hijab at a Rite Aid near her home in Midwood, Brooklyn, when a screaming woman told her to leave. The woman pushed Ali ...[Continue Reading]
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A Democratic Blue Wave Could Hit Governors Races, Too
Ed Kilgore
Democrats have reason to hope that a blue wave in the midterm elections, fed by Donald Trumps unpopularity, will help them flip the House and maybe even the Senate this year. National dynamics are ty ...[Continue Reading]
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Destroying Books to Build a Mind
Francesca Mancino
Petras, the bookstore owner in Toronto, said that she was generally comfortable selling to undercover buyers, but that she would never sell them a book with interesting marginalia or an important pro ...[Continue Reading]
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The New Yorker
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The Death of Shame Is Tearing Us Apart
Jay Caspian Kang
Since then, the panic about tanking has waxed and waned. If there was a high-water mark, it was between 2013 and 2015, when Sam Hinkie, a former finance and management-consulting professional, took o ...[Continue Reading]
The New Yorker
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Write Things Down
Ben Thompson
It was Merlin Mann and his 43folders website who introduced me to David Allen and Getting Things Done. Getting Things Done, a book which I have gifted multiple people, is first and foremost a philoso ...[Continue Reading]
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