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The first college admissions season post-affirmative action
👋 Welcome back to the Daily Edition.Today: Pranking the BBC, how to cook fish, and your...
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Thank you for one million members
Yesterday we had 999,268 members. Today we have 1,000,275.We’d debated making a fuss about the million...
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How musicians are fighting AI for fair wages
🎶 Did you know it takes a million streams to earn $3,000 on Spotify?Also today: How...
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The weirdest things that happen during an eclipse
🌚 Unicode doesn’t have an emoji for “total solar eclipse,” but this is the closest one...
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You can’t over-engineer success
🍾 It’s Friday, y’all! We made it through another industrial-revolution-inspired five-day workweek. Any fun weekend plans?...
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Richard Serra and the beauty of making disagreeable art
🌙 The moon is in its waning crescent phase tonight — it will keep getting skinnier...
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Welcome to Medium
Hi. I’m Tony, CEO of Medium. Welcome! I’ve been writing on Medium since it launched in...
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It’s National Poetry Month; here’s how to find your new favorite poem
👋 It’s Wednesday, welcome back to the Daily EditionToday: The First Amendment’s apocryphal origins, Barack Obama’s...
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How to find meaning in your summer vacation
✈️ This year, global air travel is expected to finally surpass its pre-pandemic peak (of 9.2...
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100% humiliation-free April Fools’ humor
🍺 Two Medium publication editors walk into a bar…Also today: Is everyone else really better off...
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Does age matter for a president?
🗳 221 days until the U.S. presidential electionToday: The antitrust case against Apple and a guide...
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Uncovering the origins of science class skeletons
🏛️ FYI: In its 2024 budget, the federal government has $155 million allocated for museums (down...
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My keynote talk for Medium Pub Crawl
On Tuesday, March 19, we hosted our very first Pub Crawl, a 24-hour virtual meetup that...
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Why many physicists believe in the multiverse
🪐 Good morning to you and all the parallel universe versions of you.Today: The dark side...
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Would you bet $100K that Covid-19 started in a lab?
📅 It’s been approximately 1,561 days since the first known case of Covid-19Today: The largest book...
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How game theory explains why the four-day workweek is stalled in the U.S.
☀️ Welcome back to another five-day workweek, an 86-year-old tradition many attribute to Henry Ford —...
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Three tips for avoiding virtual scams
👋 Hi, and welcome to the Daily Edition. It’s the 12th Friday of 2024.Today: A lawyer...
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We’re ramping up efforts to protect the Medium community from spam and fraud
We know you’ve seen it: spammy comments that say nothing of value. Generic posts with head-scratching...
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Can you tell the difference between an AI-generated poem and a human-written one?
✍️ What’s your favorite poem of all time? Let us know in the responses. (I like...
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The best leaders are tireless investigators of the humans around them
🔎 Who’s the best boss you’ve ever had? What made them special? Respond to this email...