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Beyond growth — why we need to agree on an alternative to GDP now
The world needs to move towards an approach to measure well-being rather than economic growth. Here’s how that can happen.
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December 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Senators scramble but offer nothing to the people on healthcare
WASHINGTON—With an end-of-December deadline staring them in the face, senators from both parties scrambled to put on a show of trying to prevent huge health insurance premium hikes from hitting tens o...
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December 16, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Bernie’s Advice to His Fellow Elected Socialists
Over the weekend, Bernie Sanders spoke to a gathering of over a hundred democratic socialist elected officials. Here’s what he said.
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December 16, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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www.thenation.com/article/poli...
The Maine Lawsuit That Could Save Democracy From Big Money
A legal fight could restore the state’s power to set its own limits on contributions to super PACs and encourage public financing.
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December 16, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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To Pack Spheres Tightly, Mathematicians Throw Them at Random | Quanta Magazine
Four mathematicians broke a 75-year-old record by finding a denser way to pack high-dimensional spheres.
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December 16, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Mathematicians Discover New Way for Spheres to ‘Kiss’ | Quanta Magazine
A new proof marks the first progress in decades on important cases of the so-called kissing problem. Getting there meant doing away with traditional approaches.
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December 16, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Why Is Ice Slippery? A New Hypothesis Slides Into the Chat. | Quanta Magazine
A newly proposed explanation for the slipperiness of ice has revived a centuries-long debate.
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December 16, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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String Theory Inspires a Brilliant, Baffling New Math Proof | Quanta Magazine
Years ago, an audacious Fields medalist outlined a sweeping program that, he claimed, could be used to resolve a major problem in algebraic geometry. Other mathematicians had their doubts. Now he says...
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December 15, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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From COVID to Hepatitis to Measles, RFK Jr. Is Gutting Vaccine Science: An Ex-CDC Expert Speaks Out
As Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dramatically reshapes U.S. immunization policy, we speak with Dr. Fiona Havers, a former top vaccine expert at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...
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December 13, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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The Supreme Court Has a Serial Killer Problem
In this week's Elie v. U.S., The Nation’s justice correspondent recaps a major death penalty case that came before the high court as well as the shenanigans of a man who’s angling to be the next SCOTU...
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December 13, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Dimension 126 Contains Strangely Twisted Shapes, Mathematicians Prove | Quanta Magazine
A new proof represents the culmination of a 65-year-old story about anomalous shapes in special dimensions.
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December 11, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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Mathematicians Marvel at ‘Crazy’ Cuts Through Four Dimensions | Quanta Magazine
Topologists prove two new results that bring some order to the confoundingly difficult study of four-dimensional shapes.
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December 11, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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“Merger Madness”: Trump at Center of Rival Netflix-Paramount Bids for Warner Bros.
President Donald Trump says he will be personally involved in the potential sale of Warner Bros. Discovery, with two enormous buyout offers on the table that risk further exacerbating U.S. media conce...
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December 9, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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RFK Jr. Is a Public Health Disaster
But local MAHA laws may be an even bigger threat.
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December 9, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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Story about Phil, Pam, Ali McLewin and B.B. King – Phil Miller
Towards the end of his life, when Phil was very ill, we were paid a surprise visit from Pam Howard, Pip’s one-time wife and Ali MacLewin, nee Head, both of whom had been at school with me in the late ...
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December 9, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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The Longest Solar Eclipse for 100 Years Is Coming. Don’t Miss It
NASA has announced when the longest total solar eclipse of the century will occur—and you won’t have to wait long. Here’s what you should know.
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December 9, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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David Hogg to Democratic Establishment: Get the Message or Get Voted Out
At WIRED’s Big Interview event, the activist and organizer said he doesn’t “think the Chuck Schumers of the world understand” what’s coming for the party.
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December 9, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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‘Reverse Mathematics’ Illuminates Why Hard Problems Are Hard | Quanta Magazine
Researchers have used metamathematical techniques to show that certain theorems that look superficially distinct are in fact logically equivalent.
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December 8, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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In Topology, When Are Two Shapes the Same? | Quanta Magazine
As topologists seek to classify shapes, the effort hinges on how to define a manifold and what it means for two of them to be equivalent.
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December 8, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Momentum Is Building for Medicare for All
As private health insurers jack up premiums for tens of millions, a majority of Americans now want Medicare for All — even if it entails eliminating private health insurers and raising taxes.
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December 7, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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AI Will Only Intensify Climate Change. The Tech Moguls Don’t Care.
The AI phenomenon may functionally print money for tech billionaires, at least for the time being, but it comes with a gargantuan environmental cost.
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December 5, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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What Is a Manifold? | Quanta Magazine
In the mid-19th century, Bernhard Riemann conceived of a new way to think about mathematical spaces, providing the foundation for modern geometry and physics.
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December 4, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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What Are Lie Groups? | Quanta Magazine
By combining the language of groups with that of geometry and linear algebra, Marius Sophus Lie created one of math’s most powerful tools.
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December 3, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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New Proofs Probe Soap-Film Singularities | Quanta Magazine
Mathematicians have broken through a long-standing barrier in the study of “minimizing surfaces,” which play an important role in both math and physics.
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December 2, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Old ‘Ghost’ Theory of Quantum Gravity Makes a Comeback | Quanta Magazine
Has the secret to understanding gravity been hiding in plain sight for nearly 50 years?
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November 27, 2025 at 8:06 AM