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1 month ago | 
chrisryan.substack.com | Chris Ryan |Jeff Maurer
Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -1:18:37Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Jeff Maurer is the brains behind I Might Be Wrong, here on Substack. He was head writer for Last Week Tonight, with John Oliver and before that, wrote speeches at the EPA. He’s smart, funny, and thoughtful — and savvy enough to shut the fuck up when Chris Rock walks into the room. Intro music “Brightside of the Sun,” by Basin and Range. “Djon Maya,” by Victor Deme.
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2 months ago | 
scientificamerican.com | Max Kozlov |Chris Ryan
The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has terminated nearly 800 research projects at a breakneck pace, wiping out significant chunks of funding to entire scientific fields, finds a Nature analysis of the unprecedented cuts. The administration of US President Donald Trump began purging NIH-funded studies on topics that it deems problematic less than 50 days ago, continuously expanding its list to include research on topics ranging from COVID-19 to misinformation.
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2 months ago | 
nature.com | Max Kozlov |Chris Ryan
The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has terminated nearly 800 research projects at a breakneck pace, wiping out significant chunks of funding to entire scientific fields, finds a Nature analysis of the unprecedented cuts. The administration of US President Donald Trump began purging NIH-funded studies on topics that it deems problematic less than 50 days ago, continuously expanding its list to include research on topics ranging from COVID-19 to misinformation.
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2 months ago | 
chrisryan.substack.com | Chris Ryan |Daniel Pinchbeck
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2 months ago | 
chrisryan.substack.com | Chris Ryan |Nikita Petrov |Lacey Delayne |Andrew Ramos
Tangentially Speaking is dedicated to the idea that good conversation is organic, uncensored, revelatory, and free to go down unexpected paths with unconventional people. Tangentially Speaking is dedicated to the idea that good conversation is organic, uncensored, revelatory, and free to go down unexpected paths with unconventional people.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
chrisryan.substack.com | Chris Ryan
I’ve been a grumpy young man, a grumpy middle-aged man, and I guess I’m pretty well into the grumpy old man zone by now, and I’m gonna let that fury flag fly. So without further fucking ado, here are some things I find annoying. Enjoy. Or don’t. I don’t give a shit. I was at a dinner party not so long ago and the host asked me how I liked my steak.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
chrisryan.substack.com | Chris Ryan
It’s been a while since I’ve watched an “adult” film — by which I mean a film clearly made with an adult sensibility, to be seen by adults. It’s a shame that “adult film” has become a euphemism for porn, in that porn is essentially childish in its infantile insistence on cartoonishly simple plot, inexistent character development, and obligatory smash-boom conclusions. Roadrunner outwits Wile E. Coyote yet again. Cue the cumshot.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
chrisryan.substack.com | Chris Ryan
I have a friend who explained his alcoholism to me thusly: “I have a drink, I feel good. I have two drinks, I feel better. After three drinks, I feel great. Then the math takes over.”That conversation came to mind when I watched the parade of rich, seemingly powerful men lining up to kiss Donald Trump’s ass as he assumes the throne. Zuckerberg just appointed Trump’s buddy Dana White to the board of Meta and suspended fact-checking on the platform in capitulation to the bronze blowhard.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
chrisryan.substack.com | Chris Ryan
Ted Gioia writes, “The truest measure of your aesthetic integrity is when you enjoy creative works that are widely mocked.”This got me thinking. It goes the other way, too. What do you think is bad that your friends all think is great? For me, The Grateful Dead is a salient example. I like them as people. I like tie-dye. I even like the smell of patchouli. But the music just sounds like a slurry mess to me.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
chrisryan.substack.com | Chris Ryan
Somehow I’ve never really liked the Beatles and feel like such an outsider. Yes I’ve listened to a lot. Years ago, I went to the theaters to watch the film called Burn After Reading. (Amazing cast) The audience was roaring with laughter the entire movie and I didn’t laugh once. Not because I didn’t get the jokes but I was able to see every one before it happened and so the “surprise” element of the joke was never there for me. I’ve never had that experience with any other film.
