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Brian Edwards

@bedwards92

Investigative reporter. My heart-shaped locket has pictures of the @MGMAdvertiser and @mndailynews. Other bylines in @BiPiSci, @AP, @ProPublica, @NPR, @LAist

New York, USA Katılım Mart 2011
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Brian Edwards@bedwards92·
Even as he lay dying on the side of a Southern California mountain – his lips blue, the color gone from his face – wildland firefighter Yaroslav Katkov wanted to push on. “We’re getting to the top. We’re finishing,” he said. A day later, he was dead. laist.com/news/climate-e…
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with a glance, i can also distinguish which animals are food and not slink away like a weirdo, so maybe these orcas should dedicate some of their 12lb brain to that
Aakash Gupta@aakashgupta

Orcas have brain structures you don't have. Neurobiologist Lori Marino's MRI work on killer whales identified a fourth cortical segment called the paralimbic lobe. It sits next to the limbic system and handles emotion and social awareness. It doesn't exist in humans or in any land mammal. In orcas, it's so elaborated it erupts into the cortex. Their cortical limbic lobe, the region handling self-awareness and social processing, is exceptionally developed. Their brain weighs roughly 12 pounds, four times the mass of yours. They have spindle cells, the same neurons that let humans reason about other minds. When an orca surfaces and locks eyes with you, it's running a social assessment with neural hardware specialized for exactly that. It knows you're a separate being. It knows you're watching it back. It's evaluating you. Here's what should recontextualize the clip. In all of recorded history, wild orcas have killed zero humans. Zero documented fatalities. One surfer was bitten off California in 1972, and the orca released him the moment it realized he wasn't a sea lion. A 12-year-old was bumped in Alaska in 2005. The orca approached, touched him, turned back. Orcas hunt great white sharks. They coordinate wave attacks that sweep seals off ice floes. They take down moose swimming between islands. They have every capability to kill you. They have never chosen to. Marino's explanation: the orca neocortex is developed enough to instantly distinguish a human from prey. Other researchers point to orca culture, the traditions passed through pods across generations, in which humans simply aren't food. That look is recognition and restraint. From a mind built for social cognition at a scale your brain can't reach.

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Press Gazette@pressgazette·
The Times says a strategy of publishing “fewer, better stories” has led to three consecutive months of record-breaking global audience growth - including Google traffic increases The Times has gone from publishing more than 200 stories a day to about 150 – a 25% cut
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imagine how mad everyone would be if NASA had some big April fools reveal tomorrow
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Sam Adler-Bell@SamAdlerBell·
to be totally sincere for a second, i can believe that transplants become Mets fans. but i suspect they do so because the culture of the Mets was more attractive to them, and part of the attraction was precisely that Mets fandom involves a greater degree of psychic commitment: the specifically New York character of loving something ugly, enduring inconvenience, and submitting yourself to one big collective neurosis. people who want to become New Yorkers, become Mets fans. And they're right to do so.
Ross Barkan@RossBarkan

The Mets fan base doesn't really send its best, so I'll explain my point as plainly as I can: of course, there are NY native Mets fans. Many, many. But if you are a gentrifier laptop class individual, pure transplant, the odds are you are a Mets fan.

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My one simple second team sports rule: If you move somewhere with an intrastate rivalry, and you want to adopt one of the teams, you choose the underdog.
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my family of three makes $500k a year and this is the only apartment we can afford on the upper west side
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@kpottermn My wife and I just had our honeymoon and stayed at the Kimpton Maa-Lai and it was amazing. We also stayed at a Capella hotel (in Hanoi but looks like there is one in Bangkok) and that was incredible too!
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Kyle Potter
Kyle Potter@kpottermn·
Need Bangkok hotel recommendations, folks. If they’re part of Amex’s Fine Hotels & Resorts, that’s a plus.
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