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A fascinating look at the first AI-generated podcast…a technology in its infancy but growing (and learning) quickly. Thanks, Reader B.
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The Solenodon is a wobbly, flexible-snouted, butt-nippled mammal that injects venom through it’s grooved lower incisors [the name comes from the Latin solen- (channel, pipe) + -odon (tooth)]. It’s also one of the earliest branches of mammal that survived the asteroid impact that killed off the dinosaurs. What more could you want?
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“What is involuntary to most people is a deliberate choice to them, something they can actively switch on if it helps them to achieve their goals, and ignore in other situations.” → How Psychopaths See the World
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The Boston Public Library is asking for your help transcribing more than 40,000 letters between abolitionist leaders from the 1830s-1870s.
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Subscribe to Letterjoy and receive “one historic letter every week, on fine cotton paper” from historic figures such as Lincoln and Einstein.
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Movie poster design is intriguing and Posteritati just might be the one movie poster site to rule them all.
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“False news reached more people than the truth; the top 1% of false news cascades diffused to between 1000 and 100,000 people, whereas the truth rarely diffused to more than 1000 people. Falsehood also diffused faster than the truth.” → The spread of true and false news online (from Science).
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“Old” media continues to reinvent itself: National Geographic begins reckoning with its racist past; The New York Times is publishing obituaries of “remarkable women” they’ve overlooked.
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Only one visible at the link, but I really want to see more of Tony Lewis’s collage art/poems built on Calvin and Hobbes. Thanks, Reader M.
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Today in 1965, Soviet cosmonaut Alexey Leonov becomes the first person to walk in space (or, in jargonese, “conduct extravehicular activity”). Turns out, it was a much more difficult, almost deadly, feat than the Soviets could admit for some time.