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Sliced Bread separates science fact from the marketing fiction.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
One Anthropic engineer wrote in his event bio that he was a “recovering AI doomer,” as well as a voracious fiction reader fond of sharing cat pictures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
Then he paid high school students to write on the papyrus using passages from "Star Wars," the Bible, and a quote from the 1960s science fiction television show "The Outer Limits."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026
For the sci-fi fans: Did you know that Slate used to publish speculative fiction?
From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026
Though the Casimir force—a mysterious, phantom force exerted by nothing at all—seems like science fiction, it exists.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
Amid the usual rants of self-puffery and other fictions, he said this:
From Slate ● Sep. 10, 2026
Importantly, and often understated, tokenized equities remain tied to the traditional financial-asset universe; they are not “crypto-only” fictions but rather a bridge between legacy asset classes and blockchain infrastructure.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 19, 2026
But Dillon’s memoir, as the author notes, was also rife with fictions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
Today, facts told as fiction are not nearly as popular as fictions presented as facts.
From Salon ● Oct. 10, 2025
This ability to speak about fictions is the most unique feature of Sapiens language.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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