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You Tube Gold: The Penn State Buzzer Beater

Duke Basketball Report 

Mar 5, 2023; University Park, Pennsylvania, USA; Penn State Nittany Lions guard Camren Wynter (11) celebrates with members of the Penn State student section following the completion of the game against the Maryland Terrapins at Bryce Jordan Center. | Matthew OHaren-USA TODAY Sports

This is a good one.

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Up to 40 percent of Americans fear flying. It's easily treated.

TheHill.com 

Fear of flying afflicts as much as 40 percent of the U.S. population. The nation’s armrest-grippers may be heartened to know that “aviophobia” is perfectly normal, and easily treated. Only about 5 percent of Americans have aviophobia so severe that they cannot fly. The earthbound population rises with every new aviation horror story, like the...

Social Security, Medicare clash comes down to what constitutes a ‘cut’

TheHill.com 

The coming battles over the nation’s safety-net programs are beginning with an early clash over a thorny question of semantics: What constitutes a cut? In the eyes of many Democrats, any change to Medicare, Medicaid or Social Security that erodes benefits provided under current law would be considered a cut — and therefore stands as...

Silicon Valley’s AI frenzy isn’t just another crypto craze

Vox 

An image autogenerated by DALL-E, OpenAI’s text-to-image tool, when given the instructions to make: “an image of someone sitting behind a computer and creating musical notes, art, and code. It should reflect the excitement and fear about the power of generative AI.” | DALL-E

It isn’t theoretical. Millions of people are already using apps like ChatGPT to write books, create art, and develop code.

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The Flood (2019) Movie Review

Paper Blog 

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ABC Film Challenge – Favourites – F – The Flood

Director: Anthony Woodley

Writer: Helen Kingston (Screenplay)

Starring: Lena Headey, Amira Ghazalla, Jack Gordon, Scott Hinds, Ivanno Jeremiah, Iain Glen

Plot: A hardened immigration officer decides the fate of a dangerous asylum seeker.

Runtime: 1 Hour 39 Minutes

There may be spoilers in the rest of the review

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Does American Fascism Exist?

The New Republic 

Since the election of Donald Trump, a specter has haunted the United States—the specter of fascism. From The New York Times to The Atlantic, from CNN to The New York Review of Books, liberals and socialists alike have asked the same question: Is it happening here?

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How Not to Predict the 2024 Election

The New Republic 

Ten months before the first Republicans have the chance to vote for a 2024 nominee, and still weeks away before many candidates (including Ron DeSantis) formally enter the fray, the GOP presidential race has already reached its breathless, heart-racing stage.

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The Deficit Hawks Are Circling the Biden Administration

The New Republic 

As the nation begins to ease into the presidential shadow primary, President Joe Biden seems to be on slightly firmer footing. His approval ratings are up, in conjunction with his recent State of the Union address, which was well received by the public. That his speech, a bold statement of intent for the next two years, was so widely admired should put wind in the president’s sails. As TNR’s editor Michael Tomasky noted, it was strewn with good notions on how to build an economy that works for... Читать дальше...

The New Anarchy

The Atlantic  

America faces a type of extremist violence it does not know how to stop.

Inside the government agency shaping the future of energy

Technology Review  

The US government had a hand in creating some of the most iconic inventions of the last century, from personal computers to modern GPS. Now, it’s making a similar push for energy. The agency behind those breakthroughs was the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA. Founded in 1958 as part of the Department of…





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