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Sam Altman, of OpenAI, has claimed that generative AI could bring about the end of human civilization, and that AI poses a risk of extinction on a par with nuclear warfare and global pandemics.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
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In 2023, a committee assembled by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine concluded that, without greater investment in a strategic monkey reserve, the United States would struggle to combat future pandemics and to compete with China.—
Ava Kofman,
New Yorker,
3 Nov. 2025
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Historically, volcanic eruptions have blasted millions of tons of sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere.—
Chris Young,
Interesting Engineering,
30 Oct. 2025
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These vast eruptions hurl immense clouds of magnetized plasma from the sun's corona into interplanetary space, sometimes at millions of miles per hour.—
Kenna Hughes-Castleberry,
Space.com,
29 Oct. 2025
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Sure, to be entirely historically accurate, negative things like plagues, beheadings and poverty would likely factor in to the villagers’ lives.—
Kate Bradshaw,
Mercury News,
25 Sep. 2025
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The post is now nearing a hundred million views and inspiring paroxysms of millennial self-reckoning.—
Kyle Chayka,
New Yorker,
13 Aug. 2025
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In Cebu city, cars swept away by floods have piled into streets and houses.—
Helen Regan,
CNN Money,
6 Nov. 2025
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Those floods killed at least 35 people, officials told AFP.—
Rajeev Tyagi,
ABC News,
6 Nov. 2025
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The children grow before the camera’s eye, taking their first steps and speaking their first words to the backdrop of explosions—moving from tent to tent, clinging to life, and longing for their mother’s embrace.—
Leo Barraclough,
Variety,
10 Nov. 2025
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For soldiers caught in explosions, survival often comes at a steep physical cost.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
10 Nov. 2025
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Virginia, which has more data centers than any other state, is bracing for major electric rate increases after having seen electricity costs rise by only about 3 percent over the last year.—
Tom Rogers,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Nov. 2025
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That could be undone, Wisconsin Insurance Commissioner Nathan Houdek said, if the subsidies go back to previous, reduced levels at the end of the year, when increases to the financial aid expire.—
Sarah Volpenhein,
jsonline.com,
6 Nov. 2025
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Even when a state’s overall vaccination rate looks healthy, there might be specific towns or school districts where rates are dangerously low – leaving those areas vulnerable to disease outbreaks.—
Anthony Bald,
The Conversation,
3 Nov. 2025
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In 2016 the entire region of the Americas declared the disease eliminated, but outbreaks in Venezuela in 2017 and in Brazil in 2018 reversed that declaration.—
Stephanie Pappas,
Scientific American,
3 Nov. 2025
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“Epidemics.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/epidemics. Accessed 11 Nov. 2025.
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