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1st Year = 31st Dog Year'ish Dog Years is to Human Years as 7 is to 1 = Wrong Andrew Yi

politics Texas bill outlaws diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives in Texas Higher ed. Elías Villoro

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language How Arabic helped shaped Hebrew Devin Nealy

Comics Savage Dragon: one of the best comics you're not reading Devin Nealy

Japan Unprecedented: Japan's population has declined by 1 million in 5 years Cory Doctorow

Science Statcheck: a data-fakery algorithm that flagged 50,000 articles Cory Doctorow

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Pandora's "Music Genome Project" explores the cold hard facts of how we interact with music Rob Pegoraro