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The Dire Wolf, an Extinct Prehistoric American Canine, Has Been Resurrected (thedebrief.org)
 

While not the gigantic uber-canines of fantasy lore, these pups will become roughly-gray-wolf-sized dire wolves, and represent the first de-extincted animal species, raising a number of ethical questions about returning animals to ecosystems that may not be stable for long.

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I am not alone – we are all alone: Using masturbation as an ethnographic method in research on shota subculture in Japan (lemmy.ml)
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Mercifully, the paper was retracted.

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This paper will be very sad if you don't read it: Object personification in autism (lemmy.ml)
 
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Saudi Arabia proposes World Cup stadium straight out of a cyberpunk dystopia (www.theverge.com)
 

Though I guess "Saudi Arabia" and "dystopia" is a little redundant

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The Open Home Foundation: Home Assistant's new foundation - and goal to become a consumer brand (arstechnica.com)
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Antioxidants such as vitamin C found to spur cancer growth & metastasis (newatlas.com)
 

“We’ve found that antioxidants activate a mechanism that causes cancer tumors to form new blood vessels, which is surprising since it was previously thought that antioxidants have a protective effect,” said Martin Bergö, a new study’s author. “The new blood vessels nourish the tumors and can help them grow and spread.” It's worth noting that there's no harm in consuming normal antioxidant-rich foods in normal quantities, though.