Scientists haven’t moved the Doomsday clock closer to midnight
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 Scientists decline to move the Doomsday Clock closer to midnight The Verge · Justine Calma We’re still stuck at 90 seconds to doomsday.  |
 ‘Our system needs to be broken, and he is the man to do it’ POLITICO · Michael Kruse Months ago, this New Hampshire voter supported Nikki Haley. He voted for Obama twice. Now he’s in Trump’s camp. How did he get here?  Death of a novelist crimereads.com · Mariah Fredericks The 1911 murder that changed New York gun laws.  Multitasking causes the same cognitive drop as smoking weed Fast Company · Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic Even brief mental blocks created by shifting between tasks can cost as much as 40% of someone’s productive time. |
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 The cicadas are coming Smithsonian Magazine · Sarah Kuta A rare ‘dual emergence’ could bring one trillion of the bugs this summer.  It’s okay to run slowly – in fact it has plenty of benefits The Conversation UK · Dan Gordon, Jonathan Melville and Matthew Slater Even elite runners spend 80 percent of their training time at a pace that raises their heart rate, but is still slow enough to hold a conversation.  How to buy a sports team gq-magazine.co.uk · Tom Lamont Thinking about joining the likes of Ryan Reynolds, David Beckham, and (probably) Jeff Bezos in the mad scramble to land your own club?  These Japanese beef croquettes are so popular there’s a 43-year waitlist CNN · Maggie Hiufu Wong The Extreme Croquettes are made from Kobe beef and sold at $1.80 a piece (the beef in them alone costs $2.70 a piece).  The most shocking snubs and surprises of the 2024 Oscar nominations Entertainment Weekly · Joey Nolfi, Maureen Lee Lenker Ken is in, and Barbie is out.  Is Ayo Edebiri Irish? A guide to the internet’s best joke. Mashable · Tim Marcin It involves a donkey, somehow. |
