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Reports of the Death of California High-Speed Rail Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
Rob Davidoff
Building a high-speed rail between Los Angeles and San Francisco was never going to be easy — but the critics who write it off are missing the real source of the project’s struggles.
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Ryan Briggs
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Knockout Mouse
Louis Evans
10: Origins
Is evidence real? The second best-attended funeral of the 19th century. Car deaths. Colon cancer. California has a commitment problem. When is it right to indoctrinate children? The undiscovere’d country. AI can’t beat us at rock, paper, scissors. Modernity was invented by German bureaucrats in 1737. A really, truly excessive amount of math.