Stories by richardatlarge

Does it matter if your houseplant’s born in a lab and never existed in nature?

Next Covid strain could kill many more, warn scientists ahead of restriction end

Kleptomaniac New Zealand parrot steals GoPro, films airborne escape

Tom Brady myths obscure essential fact: Career was self-made, manufactured

Neil Young demands Spotify remove his music over Joe Rogan vaccine info

In 2021, tech talked up ‘the metaverse.’ One problem: It doesn’t exist

Could a mutation supercharge Covid? (2020)

Omicron variant more resistant to vaccine but causes less severe Covid: study

Recently uncovered software flaw ‘most critical vulnerability of the last decade

From snubbing Mick Jagger to explaining the cosmos: the secret life of MC Escher

The Judge Who Keeps People Out of Jail

Fiction writer turns to wish fulfilment after a raft of thefts

The problem with writing fiction on Substack

Omicron possibly more infectious because it shares genetic code with common cold

The Bonsai Bandit: Store owner turns bad experience into fictional short story

What’s Weird about Substack

‘Killer robots’ may be coming. New Zealand wants to stop them

Could AI turn on us, or is natural stupidity a greater threat to humanity?

Surgeons sometimes operate on the wrong body part. There's an easy fix

People buying SUVs are cancelling out climate gains from electric cars

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