MargaretC

Both areas are extremely beautiful! We have traveled extensively in all 50 US states and found landscape beauty in all.

If I had to chose one area for vacation, it would probably be the Pacific Northwest (Washington and Oregon) due to the diversity of climates and types of landscapes accessible within a relatively small geographic area. We used to... See more

My countervailing advice to people trying to understand something is: go slow. Read slowly, think slowly, really spend time pondering the thing. Start by thinking about the question yourself before reading a bunch of stuff about it. A week or a month of continuous pondering about a question will get you surprisingly far.

UBI—or wider programmes for social support, cohesion, and economic access—should be seen as a tool for enabling the technological transition, not a response to it. It would reduce the fear of job displacement and encourage entrepreneurship and risk-taking. They could reduce social anxiety, creating the space to take advantage of this coming era of... See more

Fewer than 10 percent of the individuals who sign up to participate in her studies have the memory and mental capacity to meet the scientific criteria for being a super ager, she says.

Where do Americans mingle? from TheEconomist https://www.economist.com/united-states/2023/09/07/where-do-americans-mingle... See more This article made me smile and think of the UK equivalent. From the article. "In theory, Americans ought to encounter each other in public... See more

Yesterday I was talking to a Google recruiter and he was saying how as a big corporate it is difficult to change things or do new stuff. I frequently forget that about Google as I still have an image of it as a startup resulting from reading I'm Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59 back in 2015. That book... See more