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“I’ve seen a lot of Covid in the ER recently. With so many people getting infected recently, some folks may wonder what’s the point of getting vaccinated at all? And is there really any value to a booster dose if I’ve had two Pfizer/Moderna or a shot of J&J? My observations: 🧵”

A price breakdown for 1938 reveals that a new house cost $3,900, while rent was $27 a month.

In early March, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) was one of three lawmakers to oppose the first piece of pro-Ukraine legislation. With each proposal, a few more Republicans would sign up. This week 57 Republicans opposed President Biden’s request for $40 billion in weapons and humanitarian aid.

Trump has been credibly accused of committing at least 49 criminal offenses while running for office and during his time in office.

“At a point where majority of my family & friends think that I am mentally unstable because we are trying so hard to avoid catching SARS2. Feels pretty low & lonley.”

Last March, I shared a piece from Aaron Reed’s delightful SubStack newsletter 50 Years of Text Games about the original 1982 Hobbit text adventure. Reed ended up covering a full 50 years wort…

Elon Musk doesn't really want to buy Twitter. And he thought Twitter's refusal to provide user data was his way out. But Twitter just agreed to share the data. What now, Elon?

The truth behind the overturning of ‘Roe’

What fills the void is what’s threatening democracy.

We can no longer ignore the role of Big Tech in entrenching global inequality. To curtail the forces of digital capitalism, we need an ecosocialist Digital Tech Deal.

Elon Musk has made headlines again as he issued a stern warning to all his employees at Tesla. In a recent email he wrote, he said…

Today on TAP: And it’s not just that they beat cozying up to Saudi Arabia.

Just because someone is smart about some things doesn't mean he's smart about everything. And, yes, I'm looking at you, Elon Musk, and your attitude towards people working from home.

Why did Julius Caesar change the calendar? Professor Nomi Claire Lazar explains.

It's not crime.

Industries are often held together by unspoken hierarchies, signposts on the road to achievement. In the fancy parts of the book business, it’s not profit. Editors are often unaware of which …

A new study has shown that psychopathic people have a bigger striatum area in their brain Neuroscientists using MRI scans discovered that psychopathic people have a 10% larger striatum, a cluster of neurons in the subcortical basal ganglia of the forebrain, than regular people. This represents a cl

Not too much money.

Leaving a job working on a vital piece of infrastructure for a web3 project.

His long list of unfulfilled commitments wildly exceeds his achievements.

Researchers in Japan demonstrated the benefits of a new non-radioactive, neutral negative staining reagent by imaging viruses at nanometer-scale.

There’s a general sense that it’s bad for society—which may be right. But studies offer surprisingly few easy answers.

Priceless cultural artifacts have been plundered and sold for hundreds of years. You can find these relics in museums and in private collections. In recent years, with the advent of online marketplaces, researchers have begun to find a lot of artifacts for sale on the web. The Syrian War has resulted in hundreds of thousands