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Banned Book List: 1,648 Books in 2021-2022 - PEN America

PEN America's fall 2022 Index of Banned Books found 1,477 instances of individual books banned, affecting 874 unique titles. This searchable banned book list includes each documented book ban in the first half of the 2022-23 school year.

What's Up With That: Building Bigger Roads Actually Makes Traffic Worse

The concept is called induced demand, which is economist-speak for when increasing the supply of something (like roads) makes people want that thing even more. Though some traffic engineers made note of this phenomenon at least as early as the 1960s, it is only in recent years that social scientists have collected enough data to show how this happens pretty much every time we build new roads.

Dril and other Twitter power users begin campaign to 'Block the Blue' paid checkmarks

After Elon Musk removed legacy verified users' checkmarks, Twitter's biggest users are blocking everyone who pays.

Google Bard AI Chatbot Raises Ethical Concerns From Employees

The search giant is making compromises on misinformation and other harms in order to catch up with ChatGPT, workers say