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Minsuk Kang 강민석
As recently as 1945, most deaths occurred in the home. By the 1980s, just 17 percent did. Those who somehow did die at home likely died too suddenly to make it to the hospital—say, from a massive heart attack, stroke, or violent injury—or were too isolated to get somewhere that could provide help. Across not just the United States but also the
... See moreWe did little better than Ivan Ilyich’s primitive nineteenth-century doctors—worse, actually, given the new forms of physical torture we’d inflicted on our patient. It is enough to make you wonder, who are the primitive ones.
Excerpt From Being Mortal Atul Gawande
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Elon Musk is building SpaceX because he can’t buy a trip to Mars. You can have all the money in the world, but you can’t buy a trip to Mars. One hundred years ago, the richest man in the world couldn’t buy an iPhone. That’s the kind of progress I care about.
Eric Jorgenson • Building What Money Can’t Buy — The Anthology of Balaji
“All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.”
Homage to Catalonia
