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China Harvests Wheat in Desert

“The organization also used precise, quantitative, and high-frequency irrigation methods to deliver the necessary nutrients and water directly to the wheat roots.”

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What Makes a Noir Novel?

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The Epic Rise and Fall of a Dark-Web Psychedelics Kingpin

“Even before I had the money, even if I never had the money,” Akasha tells me, smiling, staring at me with the wide, blue eyes of a true believer, “I was free.”

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LLMs Aren’t Mirrors, They’re Holograms

The article is pretty soft, but the idea of a re-entrant symbolic hologram is interesting…

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Major Lithium Deposit found in deposit running southeastern Oregon to north Nevada

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'breathing' magma cap inside Yellowstone supervolcano

This cap acts like a lid that traps a significant amount of heat and pressure inside, but it appears to be porous enough to steadily release some of that pressure.

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Fossil Fuels Were Less Than Half of US Electricity in March?

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"…breakthrough 3D holograms can be touched, grabbed and poked."

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"At the moment … em dash enthusiasts will just have to live with the chatbot allegations."

Expected fallout as folks try to identify the authentic. More to come. (Impulse to em dash successfully resisted)

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North America is Dripping from Below

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"David Foster Wallace's 5 Rules For Great Writing"

He's right about usage dictionaries

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Farmers carry out plan to ditch traditional crops in favor of 'safe' alternatives.

Traditional seasonal crops such as watermelons, tomatoes, and citrus fruits are on their way out.

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Timeless Magic of Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities at 50

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Il n'a nulle envie De faire peur aux oiseaux Pourtant c'est un épouvantail. Lui au moins ne traine pas les pieds N'importe où.

Dôgen, Sanshô Dôei.

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"Human Chromosomes Evolved at Hyperspeed to Give Us Better Brains"

Maybe not all of us…

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Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) a gigantic, weather-defining current system could be headed to collapse.

Original paper in 2023.