“publishers now think of libraries as customer service departments for their database products” www.nytimes.com/2023/08/1…
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A pandemic is not just a disease – it’s a political, social and economic crisis fuelled by inequality www.theguardian.com/global-de…
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Iran is shutting down for two days because of the heat www.nytimes.com/2023/08/0…
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“[Abortion is] the third most commonly performed surgical procedure in Australia but nobody, anywhere, is analysing or even supplying accurate statistical information as to numbers, types or reasons.” insidestory.org.au/tangled-w…
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Why plastic recycling doesn’t work informationisbeautiful.net/visualiza…
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More than 137k applications for parent visas stuck in the pipeline in Australia, and its grown enormously recently www.theguardian.com/world/202…
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“history is an edit war. Truth, factual and moral, hangs in the balance” www.wired.com/story/one…
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Interesting profiles of some of the last internet cafes, and how important they were as third spaces restofworld.org/2023/inte…
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Hell of a chart in this Bloomberg story on Super https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-24/wall-street-is-partnering-with-cashed-up-fast-growing-australian-pension-funds?cmpid=BBD072423_AUSTRALIA&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=230724&utm_campaign=australia
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Math That Lets You Think Locally but Act Globally www.quantamagazine.org/math-that…
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A new study finds that 47,000 Russian combatants have died in Ukraine www.economist.com/graphic-d…
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Is Tennessee a Democracy? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/arc…
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The Complicated History of Pointy Hats daily.jstor.org/the-compl…
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Orange Is the New Black Signalled the Rot Inside the Streaming Economy www.newyorker.com/culture/n…
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This is a great feature on Sri Lankans that have travelled to Australia by boat. Written by Sri Lankans. watchdog.team/article/t…
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The rains in India are horrific www.economist.com/graphic-d…
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Stingy RSL Pours Wine With Full Centimetre Of Air At Top www.betootaadvocate.com/breaking-…
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“Argentinian Soccer Fans Decry a New Bronze Statue of a Former Club Coach for Its Comically Large Cojones” news.artnet.com/art-world…
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The IRS has “quietly built its own prototype system to allow Americans to file tax returns digitally and free of charge”. It will be available to a “small” group by… January. Almost every day now I wonder what decade America is in www.washingtonpost.com/business/…
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Posted without comment www.economist.com/graphic-d…
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“if wood burning were mostly a working class habit, it would probably have been banned already” www.theguardian.com/commentis…
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Incredible they created an encryption in the 1600 hundreds that took experts (and computers) 6 months to crack. www.theguardian.com/world/202…
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Nails the issues with previous Star Wars shows www.theguardian.com/tv-and-ra…
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Really like this point: why does one website (usually Twitter in the Anglo press) have to be the town square? Why isn’t the whole internet the town square? stratechery.com/2022/narr…
