Apple TV+ renews global hit, epic sci-fi saga “Foundation” for season four - Apple TV+ Press
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sleepbaseball.com - Love these fake baseball game broadcasts to put me to sleep.
Here is a New Yorker article about it: The Rapture of Listening to a Fake Baseball Game | The New Yorker
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12th Grade Reading Skills Hit a New Low - The New York Times
The reading skills of American high school seniors are the worst they have been in three decades, according to new federal testing data, a worrying sign for teenagers as they face an uncertain job market and information landscape challenged by A.I.
In math, 12th graders had the lowest performance since 2005.
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On the Reverse Flynn Effect - Cal Newport
But as he gathered data to build an up-to-date chart, he was “very surprised” by what he discovered: “IQ has actually started to fall.”
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Revenge of the Tipping Point a book by Malcolm Gladwell - Bookshop.org US — A truly excellent book. The best way to “read” it is through the audiobook, narrated by Malcolm Gladwell himself.
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Your Zodiac Sign Is 2,000 Years Out of Date - The New York Times — Oh no they didn’t!
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Healthcare’s Steady Job Growth Is Keeping a Weakening Labor Market Afloat—but for How Long? - WSJ
All told, there are now 23.5 million health-services jobs in the U.S., or about one in six private-sector jobs. That compares with 12.7 million manufacturing jobs, and 15.6 million jobs at retailers. Only the professional and business-services sector, a catchall category that includes everything from lawyers to security guards to telemarketers, comes close, with 22.5 million employees.
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[Basic Apple Guy on X: “20 years ago today, Steve Jobs unveiled the iPod nano. t.co/h4sGLW9Xb…” / X](https://x.com/BasicAppleGuy/status/1964712105011253742)
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Trump Claims the Power to Summarily Kill Suspected Drug Smugglers - The New York Times
Interesting constitutional questions: When can the President declare that a member of an organized crime syndicate is a military combatant? Can they be killed? Does Congress need to get involved?