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Unconditional Cash Study Participant Stories
openresearchlab.orgA comprehensive universal basic income (UBI) experiment in the US, giving $1,000 a month to 1,000 low-income individuals for three years, yielded underwhelming results: slightly reduced work hours with no significant improvements in health or human capital investments. It did, however, increase generosity among recipients — spending on others saw the largest categorical increase.
The Scarsdale Tavern - Fuller's Pub and Restaurant in Kensington
scarsdaletavern.co.uk
London UK Pubs, Restaurants, Eateries worth visiting and Travel
the second UK pub where you sometimes share a table and talk to people. The other one is The Churchill. The Scarsdale is located opposite the beautiful Edwardes Square, an early-19th-century private square, occupying about 1.2 hectares.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwardes_Square
Models All The Way Down
knowingmachines.org
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 t... See more
James Hamlin • Herding Hemingway’s Cats: Understanding How Our Genes Work
Today’s cult of convenience fails to acknowledge that difficulty is a constitutive feature of human experience. Convenience is all destination and no journey. But climbing a mountain is different from taking the tram to the top, even if you end up at the same place. We are becoming people who care mainly or only about outcomes. We ar
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Lucia Berlin: Amics
youtu.beResisting the Steady Path and Short Stories
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Viktor Vasnetsov
onartandaesthetics.com
reactive use of intelligence narrows our vision. In contrast, projective thinking is expansive, “open-ended,” and speculative, requiring the thinker to create the context, concepts, and the objectives.
David Brooks • This Will Make You Smarter
I love the future scenario planner gpt. I am giving a talk about the future of talent assessment and it provided me with some great insight. The theme of my talk is - we suck at prediction but it is an existential must for the collective human mind. And while we may suck at it, it inspires us to create. Even if we miss the mark, we end up creating ... See more