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	<description>From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small</description>
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		<title>A quest for a more humane ‘socialism with a human face’ kept arising from deep within the system</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why did the Communist regime collapse in the Soviet Union? Many observers credit the advent of the first Polish pope, John Paul II, in 1978. His moral authority gave the Polish authorities fits, and helped inspire the formation of Solidarity, a societal-wide opposition group, in 1980. Starting in late 1981, however, the Polish regime declared [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Ease of use alone is not enough to make a weapon playable</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2026 22:47:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A good video game usually introduces a new weapon not by stopping to explain everything it does, but by giving the player the weapon, enough information to make the possibilities legible, and then pointing him toward an opportunity to use it, with the rest of the new mechanic learned through experimentation: Taken as a metaphor, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Markets do the good things that sounds bad</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2026 20:27:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his upcoming book, Unbeatable, Bryan Caplan makes the brutally honest case for free markets: Real-world free markets deliver one broad benefit that flies under the radar of economic theory: They shield humanity from its own Social Desirability Bias. Markets do the good things that sounds bad. Good things like driving incompetent, unresponsive, and obsolete [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Martian dust is chemically reactive, potentially toxic, and likely to induce inflammatory responses in biological systems</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2026 18:16:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Surface dust poses a fundamental challenge to extraterrestrial human exploration: On Mars, this challenge is compounded by regional and global dust cycles that coat sensitive hardware. […] We observe particulates measuring as small as 100 to 200 nm on spacesuit samples and calibration targets. Compositionally, this dust is a phosphorus-, iron-, and sulfur-enriched mafic silicate [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>No one contacts me as often as my children’s school does</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2026 16:09:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“With the exception of my husband,” Stephanie H. Murray says, “no one contacts me as often as my children’s school does”: There’s the old-school stuff: a folder that comes home in each of their backpacks weekly, filled with flyers and graded work and tests to sign; a binder with a nightly behavior and reading log, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>You will not find a technical solution to politics and power</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2026 18:06:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dominic Cummins provides a “Hollywood pitch summary” of his perspective on AI and power: a) the destruction will be greater than the optimists think, b) attempts by the old regimes to regulate it will probably generally do more harm than good, c) I hope it accelerates regime change because the old regimes are driving us [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>AI Lessons from Uncle Screwtape</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2026 12:57:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few months ago, Jack Clark, co-founder of Anthropic, mused on stage, Tim Harford says, about the impact of generative AI on society: “I don’t know how we’ll respond,” he told Kenny Malone of NPR’s Planet Money. “A hundred years ago, CS Lewis wrote a book called The Screwtape Letters, about a demon in Hell [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>He wanted them to think like experts</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2026 18:45:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The fourth episode of the second season of Sold a Story looks at a poor, Black neighborhood in Houston, where Principal Thaddeus Lott transformed a struggling elementary school with Direct Instruction and laments that critics doubted his amazing results: Wesley hadn&#8217;t become the best school in Houston. There were still about 20 schools — all [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Sales of print books have increased nearly twenty-five per cent from a decade ago</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2026 16:53:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In America, book-reading is up: Sales of print books have increased nearly twenty-five per cent from a decade ago. The number of independent bookstores in the United States has climbed steeply since 2009, with a seventy-per-cent increase since 2020. A survey by the Pew Research Center found that thirty-eight per cent of American adults read [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>England is, and has been, close to a meritocracy for many generations</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2026 12:02:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gregory Clark, the economic historian behind A Farewell to Alms and The Son Also Rises, has released the final installment of his trilogy on economic development and social mobility, To Have and Have Not: Unlike its prede&#173;cessors, To Have and Have Not did not come out through Princeton University Press—nor through any academic book publisher, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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