Today we’ve got the new on our first visitor from another solar system, an update on how things are going for Voyager 1 (40 years on), and a bet in Australia that Elon Musk just won. It’s the news roundup for Sunday, December 3, 2017.
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[Content warning: Cyntoia Brown. This article discusses pretty graphic sexual and physical abuse. If that is (understandably) not your cup of tea, rejoin me next week when I’ll hopefully be talking about something more pleasant.]
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I think DC can find its way around most of these problems. It just needs to stop letting Zack Snyder and David Ayer touch everything.
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A couple weeks ago, someone asked me a question that I hadn’t been asked before. Regarding the harassment allegations against Louis C.K. and his subsequent removal from various projects, he asked, “What do you want to happen to him? When do you think he will be punished enough?” And I had to answer, “I don’t know.”
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This week we’ve got a story about editing genes in a living, breathing human, the new semi-trailer truck announced by Tesla, and videos of the new Boston Dynamics robots. It’s the science and technology news roundup for Sunday, November 19, 2017.
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Sometimes, sitting down to write these posts feels like rolling up to an all-you-can-eat buffet of rotten hamburger and spoiled green beans. How could I possibly choose, amongst the smorgasbord of terrible behavior, what I would actually write about? […] And then Roy Moore stayed ahead in the polls despite accusations of molesting and assaulting teenagers, and I was like, “Oh, obviously that.”
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This week we’ve got some of the latest photos from Jupiter, the latest stories on transportation company Uber, and the Bitcoin upgrade that never was. It’s the science and technology roundup for Sunday, November 12, 2017!
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You will all be super surprised to learn that I am still sick, so this week is going to be a bit short as well. I mostly want to talk about the election on Tuesday, and the monumental, fantastic results that occurred.
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This week’s top stories include a series of hearings about social media and Russian interference in the 2016 US election, the discovery of a “void” inside the Great Pyramid, and the under-subscribed retraining classes for former coal miners. It’s the science and technology roundup for Sunday, November 5, 2017!
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Photo: Steve, CC BY-SA 2.0 I’m sick, so this is going to be short (and late! Go sick me). I originally wanted to write a whole long post about Weinstein, Toback, Spacey, and so many […]
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A Tesla Launch, A Study on Lullabies, And A Self-Cloning Crayfish | Vol. 5 / No. 16 
Things Making Elle Mad | Vol. 5 / No. 15.1 
A Mayan Discovery, A Safe Splashdown, And A Record Spacewalk | Vol. 5 / No. 15 
How Not to Respond to Constituents | Vol. 5 / No. 14.1 
Falcon Heavy Prepares For Launch, Trump Screws Up (Again), and Scientists Try To “Break” The Vacuum | Vol. 5 / No. 14 
I’ll Show You Scorn | Vol. 5 / No. 13.1 
A Government Shutdown, A Monetization Change At YouTube, and A Mighty Little Rocket Launch | Vol. 5 / No. 13