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Ethan Freedman

@ethanpfreedman.com

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Reporter: science, nature, agriculture, climate. Bylines at Scientific American, Live Science, Hakai, Sierra, Slate, Fatherly, etc. He/Him. RTs =/= Endorsement. Opinions solely my own. Old posts regularly delete en masse. Chicago www.ethanpfreedman.com

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Ethan Freedman @ethanpfreedman.com · 1d

Better journalism means more employed journalists – more reporters means more breadth, more time for each reporter to dive into each story, more time for reporters to develop beats and sources, more time to stop and think. Good reporting is an art and a skill that needs focus and attention.

Ethan Freedman @ethanpfreedman.com · 1d

Thousands of science stories happen every week, and fewer and fewer news outlets hire people with the knowledge or insight to cover them

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Ethan Freedman @ethanpfreedman.com · 1d

Obviously, these charts can't be equal (it's important to cover big events) -- but I know so many underemployed science journalists, so it's not as if there aren't reporters who could make these charts more aligned

Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 2d

Does the news reflect what we die from?

The image presents a comparison of the leading causes of death in the United States for 2023 and the media coverage these causes receive from three news outlets: The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Fox News.

In the footer, it notes the data sources, indicating that the information is based on media mentions from Media Cloud (2025) and death data from the US CDC (2025) and the Global Terrorism Index, with a clarification that values are normalized to sum to 100%.

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Ethan Freedman @ethanpfreedman.com · 2d

Lots of good stuff in this ep on AI data centers, but this bit was particularly well-said:

"Because if you need to do it now, you're using natural gas.

And then you say, well, once we create machine god, machine god will fix it. And you can justify a lot of stuff.”

James van Geelen on the Next Phase of the AI Buildout

Podcast Episode · Odd Lots · 10/06/2025 · 39m

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Ethan Freedman @ethanpfreedman.com · 2d

2009

Ethan Freedman @ethanpfreedman.com · 2d

The Steelers, Colts, Chargers, Jags, Pats, and Broncos are all in AFC playoff position -- and the Bengals, Texans, Chiefs, and Ravens are not

The Athletic @theathletic.com · 2d

FINAL: Chiefs 28, Jaguars 31.

This is Jacksonville's first win over Kansas City since 2009.

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Ethan Freedman @ethanpfreedman.com · 2d

Cubs once again being a can of pringles

Ethan Freedman @ethanpfreedman.com · 5d

Brewers currently going through the Cubs like a can of pringles, my god

Ethan Freedman @ethanpfreedman.com · 3d

I think the fact that this post was immediately retweeted by an account that follows 125,000 other accounts is just proving my point lol

Ethan Freedman @ethanpfreedman.com · 3d

"Ghosting is just one of the morbid symptoms of the radioactive half-life of a society that has in fact died.”

Listening to this ep got me thinking about how all "social" technologies, like this platform, are a form of ghosting -- a sort of haunting, half-presence of real humanism

The Politics of Ghosting: Dominic Pettman on Absence, Intimacy, and Digital Life

Podcast Episode · Acid Horizon · 09/28/2025 · 1h 7m

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Ethan Freedman @ethanpfreedman.com · 4d

Jays-Brewers series would be so fun to watch

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Ethan Freedman @ethanpfreedman.com · 5d

Milwaukee has figured out the secret sauce to winning baseball games, which is simply to not get out, ever, for any reason

Ethan Freedman @ethanpfreedman.com · 5d

Brewers currently going through the Cubs like a can of pringles, my god

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Ethan Freedman @ethanpfreedman.com · 5d

Brewers currently going through the Cubs like a can of pringles, my god

Ethan Freedman @ethanpfreedman.com · 5d

Marketing exec at Acme Corporation posting on LinkedIn:

I was struggling to connect with our customers. But that was before I took the time to learn who our most important customers were. And once I learned how to speak coyote, everything changed.

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Ethan Freedman @ethanpfreedman.com · 6d

It's crazy to think about how so much of your body is made up of food you once ate

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Ethan Freedman @ethanpfreedman.com · 6d

It will be really interesting what future plans the city comes up with for this area -- as always, the edges of climate hazard zones can be sites where people get left behind or where we forge new visions of what the human-nature interface can be

Samantha Maldonado @smaldo.bsky.social · 6d

NEW: A buyout program is coming for homeowners in The Hole, a NYC neighborhood unlike any other.

It’s the first time the city pursues this climate adaptation strategy proactively, instead of after a disaster, and with a focus on inland (not coastal) flooding.

www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/03/f...

They Live Below Sea Level in NYC. Now, the City Could Buy Out 'The Hole'

The low-lying neighborhood on the Brooklyn-Queens border will be the first place in New York where officials may buy properties proactively — instead of in response to a disaster.

www.thecity.nyc

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Ethan Freedman @ethanpfreedman.com · 6d

Is there a way to buy used e-books? Like some sort of peer-to-peer transfer system?

Ethan Freedman @ethanpfreedman.com · 9d

Sportswriters are going to be rehashing this Mets collapse for the next 12 months, huh

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Ethan Freedman @ethanpfreedman.com · 15d

For once, I'd love for the Mets to make it into the playoffs without any need for late-season heroics, but that's simply not the world we live in

Ethan Freedman @ethanpfreedman.com · 16d

Wayyyyy ahead of you

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Ethan Freedman @ethanpfreedman.com · 16d

This cookbook still has yet to disappoint bookshop.org/p/books/six-...

Six Seasons: A New Way with Vegetables

A New Way with Vegetables

bookshop.org

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Ethan Freedman @ethanpfreedman.com · 16d

Farmer's market tomatoes, but not even the good ones. Mix of regular red globes, a couple of beaten-up ugly-bin heirlooms, and one bright orange medium-sized one. Onion, garlic, thyme, and little else.

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Ethan Freedman @ethanpfreedman.com · 16d

I made tomato soup from scratch tonight with fresh tomatoes, and I'm mad I ever ate anything that came out of a can

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Ethan Freedman @ethanpfreedman.com · 17d

Chris Collinsworth: "You get the Pythagorean theorem in there, you know, maybe the triangle, the whole thing."

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Ethan Freedman @ethanpfreedman.com · 18d

Not sure how sustainable the strategy of “give up tons of yards and then get a turnover” will be all season, but it seems to be working in this game

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Ethan Freedman @ethanpfreedman.com · 18d

Less so without an offense