Stripe, doubling down on embedded finance, de-couples payments from the rest of its stack
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Inside the Crisis at NPR
Listeners are tuning out. Sponsorship revenue has dipped. A diversity push has generated internal turmoil. Can America’s public radio network turn things around?
Inside TSMC’s struggle to build a chip factory in the U.S. suburbs
Missed deadlines and tension among Taiwanese and American coworkers are plaguing the chip giant’s Phoenix expansion.
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The muscle miracle: can I build enough in my 60s to make it to 100 – even though I’ve never weight-trained?
To live a long and healthy life, you need plenty of muscle. But we all start losing it in our 50s. Can a 60-year-old man build himself up – and maybe even get a little ripped?
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Six years ago I celebrated my 68th birthday by gifting my children 68 bits of advice I wished I had gotten when I was their age. Every birthday after that I added more bits of advice for them until I … Continue reading →
藝術 (Art), 手工藝 (Craftsmanship), 製造 (Manufacture): Taichung Taiwan is a Bicycling Manufacturing Mecca – Adam Sklar and Daniel Yang
It is easy to take for granted how products from around the globe end up in our hands. When it comes to bicycles, many of us have no idea how they are made. Our Instagram feeds are filled with romanticized images of artisans building intricate frames one at a time, but what about the production bicycles that the vast majority ride? Much less information is available, leaving our imaginations to conjure up images of robotic welders and dirty, fast-paced production. This often leads to uninformed...
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Collective intelligence: A unifying concept for integrating biology across scales and substrates - Communications Biology
Shellard, A. & Mayor, R. Rules of collective migration: from the wildebeest to the neural crest. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B Biol. Sci. 375, 20190387 (2020).…
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These Women Came to Antarctica for Science. Then the Predators Emerged
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Kevin Kelly – Over the long term, the future is decided by optimists
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Homicides Are Plummeting in American Cities
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A Father and His Kids Disappeared Into the Woods. Then Came the Surveillance Videos—and the Bank Robbery.
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How Mr. Irrelevant became the most beloved underdog in sports
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Opinion | Happy 20th Anniversary, Gmail. I’m Sorry I’m Leaving You.
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Leader of tree poaching ring that started massive Olympic Peninsula forest fire sentenced to 20 months in prison
Tacoma — The lead defendant in a scheme to unlawfully harvest maple trees from the Olympic National Forest that resulted in a massive 2018 forest fire was sentenced late yesterday to 20 months in prison, announced U.S. Attorney Nick Brown.
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A Dramatic Tale of Timber Poaching in Washington State
Muffled chainsaws, tree DNA and Carlos Santana – this fascinating story about the bust of a timber poaching ring in Washington State has it all. Seeking a particular type of bigleaf maple with a distorted grain that’s highly prized for making musical instruments, a gang of poachers decimated an area of the Gifford Pinchot National […]
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The Icon of the Seas Will Not Countenance a Shrug
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Scalzi on Film: The Godzilla Beeper - Uncanny Magazine
As I was watching Godzilla Minus One, the (terrific) new Japanese reboot and recontextualization of the Godzilla origin story, I found myself thinking of another Godzilla entirely. Not the one in the 1954 original film, or the versions from the many, many films over the years, including the most recent 2014 US version of the monster. […]
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‘Star Trek’ Fan Leaves Behind a Collection Like No One Has Done Before
When Troy Nelson died, his shelves were filled to the rafters with memorabilia from the popular franchise. Soon, the massive collection will be boldly going, going, gone.
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Where the Amish Go on Vacation
Each winter, for close to a century now, hundreds of Amish and Mennonite families have travelled from their homes in icy quarters of the U.S. and Canada to…
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Arctic Ascent With Alex Honnold: Exclusive Interview With Aldo Kane
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