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The triage of truth: do not take expert opinion lying down | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/the-triage-of-truth-do-not-take-expert-opinion-lying-down
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Aristotle was right about mathematics after all | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/aristotle-was-right-about-mathematics-after-all
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Some Crypto-Capitalists Just Want to See the World Burn http://gizmodo.com/some-crypto-capitalists-just-want-to-see-the-world-burn-1798667463?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=email
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My IRB Nightmare | Slate Star Codex https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/29/my-irb-nightmare/
GitHub - vi3k6i5/flashtext: Extract Keywords from sentence or Replace keywords in sentences. https://github.com/vi3k6i5/flashtext
The Premium Mediocre Life of Maya Millennial https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2017/08/17/the-premium-mediocre-life-of-maya-millennial/
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Harvard and the Making of the Unabomber - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2000/06/harvard-and-the-making-of-the-unabomber/378239/
Palantir: the ‘special ops’ tech giant that wields as much real-world power as Google | World news | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/30/palantir-peter-thiel-cia-data-crime-police
The War on Public Schools - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/10/the-war-on-public-schools/537903/
The Dumb Fact of Google Money - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/08/the-dumb-fact-of-google-money/538458/
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How the Summer of Love helped give birth to the Religious Right - Vox https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/8/31/16229320/summer-of-love-jesus-people-religious-right-history
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How Netflix’s Content Strategy Is Reshaping Movie Culture https://hbr.org/2017/08/how-netflixs-content-strategy-is-reshaping-movie-culture?curator=MediaREDEF
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The truth has got its boots on: what the evidence says about Mr. Damore’s Google memo https://medium.com/@tweetingmouse/the-truth-has-got-its-boots-on-what-the-evidence-says-about-mr-damores-google-memo-bc93c8b2fdb9
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