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Sunday, May 18, 2025

Conor Friedersdorf
May 18, 2025
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This Week’s Selections

A Worst Case Nuclear Scenario and How to Prevent It (link)

A Grand Experiment in Parenthood and Friendship (link)

Feelings, Facts, and Our Crisis of Truth (link)

The Mother Who Never Stopped Believing Her Son Was Still There (link)

A History of Underground Parking (link)

Other Items of Note

  • Stop requiring a prescription for statins (link)

  • The Great Divergence: America is now way richer than Europe. (link)

  • A visualization of ocean currents (link)

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