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Theoxenia
Let's politicize Huntington's disease! It'll be fun!
Sep 26
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Aaron Zinger
6
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Let's Go To Greece
There's a modern medical breakthrough hiding in ancient myth.
Sep 15
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Aaron Zinger
5
2
Still Unbroken
The story of a hate crime in Dallas shows how the complexities of identity can divide and unite us.
Published on Outlandish Claims
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Sep 11
Hugo Steinhaus on Generative AI
"It's unknown whether one should rejoice or worry that the near future will provide us with a companion in the form of a box that would give banal…
Sep 5
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Aaron Zinger
1
August 2025
Prehistoric Algorithms, Part 2 - Fair Division
On the surprisingly difficult field of cake cutting.
Aug 29
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Aaron Zinger
6
Prehistoric Algorithms, Part 1 - Period Tracking
What math did we do before agriculture?
Aug 28
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Aaron Zinger
7
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Levenshtein's Festival
On the mythic roots of autocorrect.
Aug 20
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Aaron Zinger
4
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The Hermit and the Bear
A cautionary tale whose moral keeps changing.
Aug 15
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Aaron Zinger
3
Triangle-Sitting
On the history of dance and the dance of history, plus an irrelevant cute dog story.
Aug 5
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Aaron Zinger
6
3
July 2025
Why We Care
On JD Vance's argument that nation-states are inherently genocidal.
Jul 31
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Aaron Zinger
6
1
Raft Consensus Algorithms
Beggars can't be choosers and we're all beggars.
Jul 21
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Aaron Zinger
6
3
This is a freedom struggle
A Muslim, a priest, and a rabbi get on a bus...
Jul 1
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Aaron Zinger
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