Hamnet, Sinners and Christy: 12 films to look out for in the Oscars race

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd9y7qx7gqno

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Random k conditional nearest neighbor for high-dimensional data - PMC

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11784752/

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Random k conditional nearest neighbor for high-dimensional data [PeerJ]

https://peerj.com/articles/cs-2497/

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Trump's calamitous 2025, summarized in one (long) sentence | Opinion

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Trump's calamitous 2025, summarized in one (long) sentence | Opinion

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/12/30/trump-2025-year-recap/87794100007/

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	Aaron Levie ⁦‪@levie‬⁩   12/26/25, 1:44 PM

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How love of history is driving this Arizona museum to tell new stories

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How love of history is driving this Arizona museum to tell new stories

https://www.azcentral.com/story/entertainment/arts/2025/12/28/dan-finley-sigler-western-museum/87796471007/

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The 6 best Arizona hikes if you want to avoid crowds

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The 6 best Arizona hikes if you want to avoid crowds

https://www.azcentral.com/story/travel/airlines/2025/12/19/best-arizona-hikes-no-crowds/87219403007/

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Late Bronze Age collapse - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Bronze_Age_collapse

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Groq - Wikipedia

In addition to its functionally sliced microarchitecture, the LPU can also be characterized by its single-core, deterministic architecture.^[26][27] The LPU can achieve deterministic execution by avoiding the use of traditional reactive hardware components (branch predictors, arbiters, reordering buffers, caches)^[26] and by having all execution explicitly controlled by the compiler thereby guaranteeing determinism in execution of an LPU program.^[26]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groq

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CBC News : Pickleball injuries on the rise, according to research and medical professionals

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/pickleball-injuries-rise-studies-professionals-9.7021856

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'It punched a hole through political correctness': How Eminem's The Marshall Mathers LP sent shockwaves through the '00s

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20250527-how-eminems-the-marshall-mathers-lp-sent-shockwaves-through-the-noughties

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15 must-see movies in theaters this holiday season, from 'Wicked: For Good' to 'Avatar 3'

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15 must-see movies in theaters this holiday season, from 'Wicked: For Good' to 'Avatar 3'

https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/movies/2025/11/04/movies-in-theaters-holiday-2025/86978277007/

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Sit-to-stand: The simple test that reveals how you're ageing

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250404-sit-to-stand-the-simple-test-that-reveals-how-youre-ageing

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Google 2025 recap: Research breakthroughs of the year

https://blog.google/technology/ai/2025-research-breakthroughs/

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Wegovy pill approved by US FDA for weight loss

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce86le5dyxyo

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The Strange History of Erle Stanley Gardner and the Las Vegas Private Eye ‹ CrimeReads

https://crimereads.com/erle-stanley-gardner-las-vegas-private-eye/

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Kristin Cabot: HR exec in viral Coldplay clip speaks of abuse, threats and trying to find a new job

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg7vp937jyxo

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The Nerd Reich | Book by Gil Durán | Official Publisher Page | Simon & Schuster

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Nerd-Reich/Gil-Duran/9781668221402

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Tech Billionaires Accused of Quietly Working to Implement "Corporate Dictatorship"

https://futurism.com/billionaires-corporate-dictatorship

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Moment Trump Goons Realized Vanity Fair Shoot Was Career Suicide

https://www.thedailybeast.com/moment-trump-goons-realized-vanity-fair-shoot-was-career-suicide/

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Refractive Lens Exchange: How To Prepare for Your Procedure

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/treatments/24840-refractive-lens-exchange

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Over-the-Air TV Signals Bright Future​

https://www.aarp.org/personal-technology/over-the-air-tv-future/

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A semiconductor company is closing its Chandler factory. Here's why

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A semiconductor company is closing its Chandler factory. Here's why

https://www.azcentral.com/story/money/business/tech/2025/12/16/nxp-semiconductors-to-close-specialized-chip-factory-chandler-az/87784552007/

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Post by Timothy Caulfield on X

	Timothy Caulfield ⁦‪@CaulfieldTim‬⁩ All that cannabis / CBD hype? Ignore. Review of Medical Cannabis Use Finds Little Evidence of Benefit nytimes.com/2025/12/12/hea… Bottom line: "The evidence does not support the use of cannabis or cannabinoids at this point for most of the indications that folks are using it for."   12/15/25, 10:32 AM

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52 things I learned in 2025. This year I stopped being a consultant… | by Tom Whitwell | Dec, 2025 | Medium

https://medium.com/@tomwhitwell/52-things-i-learned-in-2025-edeca7e3fdd8

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How one man made six million Wikipedia edits (and counting) | BBC Science Focus Magazine

https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/most-edits-wikipedia-steven-pruitt

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Green Window Cleaning

http://greenwindowcleaning.com/

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China monitoring

https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/04/china/china-ai-censorship-surveillance-report-intl-hnk?cid=ios_app

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Oz Pearlman: The art of reading minds | TED Talk

https://www.ted.com/talks/oz_pearlman_the_art_of_reading_minds

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Michelin star Chinese restaurant will open a 2nd Arizona location

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Michelin star Chinese restaurant will open a 2nd Arizona location

https://www.azcentral.com/story/entertainment/dining/2025/12/11/din-tai-fung-chandler/87704967007/

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John Varley (author) - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Varley_(author)

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John Varley (1947-2025) – Locus Online

https://locusmag.com/2025/12/john-varley-1947-2025/

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Two Thumbs Up! The Individual Top Tens of 2025 | Features | Roger Ebert

https://www.rogerebert.com/features/two-thumbs-up-the-individual-top-tens-of-2025

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Grid-style social management in China - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid-style_social_management_in_China

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Sherlock Holmes to Sleuth: 10 of the greatest murder mysteries ever

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20251210-10-of-the-greatest-murder-mysteries-ever

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Shinbutsu-shūgō - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinbutsu-shūgō

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Post by Ethan Siegel on X

	Ethan Siegel ⁦‪@StartsWithABang‬⁩ 10 scientific truths that somehow became unpopular in 2025 Scientific truths exist independently of public opinion. But when we disbelieve them, we embrace misinformation instead, and that harms more than most of us realize. bigthink.com/starts-with-a-…   12/9/25, 9:34 AM

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'Wake Up Dead Man' may be the best 'Knives Out' movie yet

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'Wake Up Dead Man' may be the best 'Knives Out' movie yet

https://www.azcentral.com/story/entertainment/movies/billgoodykoontz/2025/12/09/wake-up-dead-man-review/87613455007/

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High-speed internet will soon be coming to rural Arizona communities

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High-speed internet will soon be coming to rural Arizona communities

https://www.azcentral.com/story/money/business/tech/2025/12/08/feds-approve-broadband-plan-to-connect-160k-arizona-households-high-speed-internet/87610085007/

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Phoenix child dies, siblings hospitalized from parents' extreme fad diet

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Phoenix child dies, siblings hospitalized from parents' extreme fad diet

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2025/12/08/arizona-parents-charged-in-fad-diet-death-of-child/87627661007/

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Eye clinic offers a new alternative to daily glaucoma eye drops

https://www.azcentral.com/story/sponsor-story/barnet-dulaney-perkins/2025/11/14/eye-clinic-offers-a-new-alternative-to-daily-glaucoma-eye-drops/87248377007/

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Shingles vaccine may slow, prevent dementia progression, study finds

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Shingles vaccine may slow, prevent dementia progression, study finds

https://www.usatoday.com/story/graphics/2025/12/07/shingles-vaccine-slow-prevent-dementia-study/87606825007/

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Get your kicks on Route 66 in Arizona. Fuel up at these restaurants

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Get your kicks on Route 66 in Arizona. Fuel up at these restaurants

https://www.azcentral.com/story/travel/arizona/2025/12/06/arizona-route-66-best-restaurants/87218345007/

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Pluralistic: The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI (05 Dec 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/pop-that-bubble/

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Sinners to One Battle After Another: The 25 best films of 2025

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20250423-the-best-films-of-2025

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From 'Jay Kelly' to 'Mission: Impossible,' 15 movies to stream now

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From 'Jay Kelly' to 'Mission: Impossible,' 15 movies to stream now

https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/movies/2025/12/05/new-movies-streaming-netflix-hulu-disney-hbo-max-amazon/87489342007/

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Best Movies of 2025 - The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/movies/best-movies-2025.html

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Quotes

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How David Bowie saved Iggy Pop’s life

https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/how-david-bowie-saved-iggy-pop-life/

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How Mathematical ‘Hocus-Pocus’ Saved Particle Physics | Quanta Magazine

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-renormalization-saved-particle-physics-20200917/

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Dilution (neural networks) - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilution_(neural_networks)

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