MargaretC
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MargaretC
Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to outgrow loneliness. Never hope to find people who will understand you, someone to fill that space. An intelligent, sensitive person is the exception, the very great exception. If you expect to find people who will understand
... See moreJanet Fitch • White Oleander (Oprah's Book Club)
The difficulties I had encountered were superseded by stirring memories of the vastness, remoteness, silence, and incredible beauty of this pristine wilderness.
J.R. Harris • Way Out There: Adventures of a Wilderness Trekker
Kat Arney sets out to understand how our genes work and, as her book title suggests, this is not going to be an easy task. She takes us on a journey, quite literally, as she flits across the world to meet a variety of geneticists, from those at the heart of the major genetic discoveries of the last century to those at the cutting edge of genetics... See more
James Hamlin • Herding Hemingway’s Cats: Understanding How Our Genes Work
GPT-4 and 4-Turbo have always been available for free in Microsoft Copilot. 4o is now free in ChatGPT. Claude 3.5 Sonnet is now free in Claude. So there are many that have never subscribed to a premium plan that have been using the best models all along still
Ethan Mollick • Gradually, then Suddenly: Upon the Threshold
Loneliness isn’t just making us unhappy, it’s silently killing us: Social isolation is as harmful as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. If the situation is so critical, why aren’t we doing more to fix it? Because we’ve been collectively ashamed to talk about loneliness . Our silence has incubated one of the most insidious crises our society has to face.... See more
The Loneliness Economy: How can technology help us belong?
Over the past few months, venture activity in nuclear has converged upon nuclear fusion. Nuclear fusion has been garnering a significant amount of attention—perhaps at the neglect of its older sibling, nuclear fission. While the technology and progress of nuclear fusion is astonishing, we think the future of nuclear fission holds equal potential to... See more
Bessemer Venture Partners • Investing in a world powered by nuclear fission
Too short to be cabin crew? There's an operation for that! 😂 | Mandy - BBC
youtube.comThis series of surreal 15-minute shorts, crammed with running jokes and visual allusions, is the most inspired comedy on screen right now. Written and directed by the star, it's part sitcom, part sketch show, revolving around our workshy heroine's exhausting efforts to get something for nothing — including benefits, when she can be bothered to turn up at the Job Centre.
Mikhail Vrubel
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