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The price of a Costco hot dog has gone up
The $1.50 price of a Costco hot dog—a quarter-pound all-beef dog,
bun, and drink—is sacred. But a recent analysis finds that its
effective price increased by 77 cents between 2023 and 2026.
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Does your paper really suck?
A critique of QED Science's AI-generated paper-quality score, its
validation studies, and evidence of geographic bias in its public
rankings.
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Cost Analysis of Caltech & JPL Health Insurance Plans
A direct comparison of Caltech and JPL staff health insurance plans,
with a focus on how PPO premiums, deductibles, and out-of-pocket
costs shape the real choice.
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FASTerQ to Count Matrices for Single-Cell RNA-Seq
Stream reads from ENA into kallisto and bustools to generate count
matrices without first downloading and storing FASTQ files.