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Fight the Power: Another summer.
Physicists overestimate their epidemiology game: Dunning-Kruger, meet the vaporisation of qualitative factors.
Trump is a salesman: He lacks the attention-span for fascism.
CO asphyxiation accounts for half of Hurricane Laura deaths: Generators are as deadly as 40mph winds.
Political ads have very small effect-sizes: Mind-control rays remain elusive.
Incredible Proof Machine: Lineal descendant of Sierra's Incredible Machine.
Kickstarting a Girl Genius game: Adventures in Castle Heterodyne.
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Working as intended: My upcoming free lecture on the role monopoly plays in distorting our discourse and creating conspiracies.

Buying (not licensing) my ebooks: The best way to get my ebooks and audiobooks.

Scihub boosts cites: Public sphere vs Elsevier.

Topple monuments…with science: Popular Mechanics is here for you.

Privacy Analyzer: What does the web know about you?

Frederick Douglass's descendants read his July 4 speech: "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?"

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