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Recommended Reading

Sunday, April 27, 2024

Conor Friedersdorf
Apr 27, 2025
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This Week’s Selections

The Urgency of Interpretability (link)

How the War Over Trans Athletes Tore a Volleyball Team Apart (link)

Pale Blue Dot (link)

In Japan, a Rice Shortage (link)

Death of a Chicken (link)

Flashback: Death of a Pig (link)

Other Items of Note

  • Death of a dog (link)

  • Death of a whale (link)

  • Death of an elephant (link)

  • Life of a hummingbird (link)

  • The fate of mule bureaucrats (link)

  • “When AI takes over the practice of science we will likely find the results strange and incomprehensible. Should we worry?” (link)

  • The scientists who’ve seen a new color (link)

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