The Alabama Supreme Court's decision on IVF is the perfect example of Niemöller's First They Came...poem playing out in America.
Go ahead, and don't fight to keep the Republicans out. Eventually, they will come for you too.
The Alabama Supreme Court's decision on IVF is the perfect example of Niemöller's First They Came...poem playing out in America.
Go ahead, and don't fight to keep the Republicans out. Eventually, they will come for you too.
When given the lucrative chance to demonize a rival player, Clark chose a different path.
Caitlin Clark's Lesson for White Athletes: Don't Be a MAGA Pawn.
In a new study led by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service, researchers found that each tree planted in a community was associated with significant reductions in non-accidental and cardiovascular mortality among humans living nearby.
Avatar may have a point about our even-closer-than-we-thought relationship with nature.
The use of a weighted blanket may result in more melatonin — a sleep-promoting hormone produced by the brain — being released, the research reveals. Melatonin reduces alertness and makes sleep more inviting.
Hold me tight, dear blankie!
Practicing meeting mindfulness allows us to free up time for other stuff that matters more. This isn’t to say that all meetings are useless — it’s just that the meetings we do have at Tremendous are meetings for a reason. We don’t schedule meetings for quick status updates or aimless, recurring check-ins. And we don’t host Zoom happy hours or other manufactured social situations. (We save that for our twice-annual offsites, our most recent being September in Mexico City.)
I wish I could implement this in our workplace. Fewer meetings and more focused-work.
In new research, Cornell University psychologists find that study participants, on average, were more than twice as likely to call male professionals — even fictional ones — by their last name only, compared to equivalent female professionals. This example of gender bias, say researchers, may be contributing to gender inequality.
And what's in a name, they say. I've also observed this in academia. Women are more likely to encourage even their students to call them by their first names whereas some men insist on using the honorific 'doctor' while addressing them.
While Musk may be an extreme case, he's also the perfect example of the modern CEO: a chaotic blend of unproductive micromanagement and highly paid absenteeism. Being the “chief executive” is meant to be the highest position in the organization — the person who is ultimately responsible for everything in the company — and yet the modern executive is someone who deliberately takes on multiple roles, directorships, book deals, and speaking arrangements.
What I have always thought to be true – CEOs are overrated and grossly overpaid for something that we aren't even sure they are responsible for.
After reading Andy Baio’s latest post about AI-art generators and artist rights, I reached out and had him walk me through how to experience it myself. We followed the instructions in this video
Instructions on creating AI-powered portraits without relying on a third-party service.
Accessing U.S. data for research just got easier
An online portal offers one-stop shopping to apply for access to protected data sets maintained by 16 federal agencies. Scientists can search the site to find the data set they want and then, with one click, file an application. The site also allows them to track the status of their request.
A new class of antidepressant works in 2 hours
The potential new drug is in a class of its own, as it works differently than any other antidepressant on the market.
It almost sounds like an upper you take during the holidays.
With all the AI websites out there, you can check whether your photo has been used to train these models.
To check whether images associated with you have been used to train an AI system, visit HaveIBeenTrained.com. (This engine doesn’t save your image searches.)
I checked mine and was relieved to find that it wasn't, but I found an image of someone I know online. Apparently, we look similar. Perhaps, it's the great big nose.
Newly discovered species of bacteria in the microbiome may be a culprit behind rheumatoid arthritis.
In our recently published study, my colleagues and I found an important clue to a potential culprit behind this disease: the bacteria in your gut.
This is personally important for me since my mom recently passed away due to complications arising from rheumatoid arthritis (it's an autoimmune disease). I'm curious if I'm susceptible.
Select 10-20 photos of yourself (or you and your partner as a 👩❤️👨 couple, or your 🐶 dog or 🐱 cat). We'll train the AI to generate AI-generated avatars that look just like you in any style you want.
It will put you back $40, but the images are pretty great. However, I'm wary that they may be using my pictures to train their models in the future.
If you wondered how Kanye West, as a black man, pals around with overt white supremacists, read The Rainbow Putsch Coalition
It is weird, but it isn’t new. White supremacists, who in many (or sometimes any) cases wouldn’t pass as white, have always been an odd feature of the white supremacist landscape. This is in part because, contrary to the white supremacist’s most fundamental claims, race is a fiction — or, better said, a culturally derived, ever-changing, and porous set of overlapping categories that derive from and reinforce systems of domination and exploitation and are consequently always in flux.
Personal blogs are back...again. Say welcome to the ooh.directory.
We at Instagram Want You to Know That if You Don’t Use Reels We Will Hurt You and Your Family. Time to reel them in.
Esquire's Best New Restaurants in America, 2022. Two of Austin's are featured.
With the economic climate we are in and the paucity of talent, I love the concept of Stay Interviews (the opposite of Exit Interviews). Positive validation is extremely important to retain good people.
U.S. News college rankings draw new complaints and competitors. College rankings have always been fraught with methodology issues and biased toward factors that don't include equity. I'm glad such retrospection has motivated highly-rejective universities to opt out of rankings.
Whenever I see a line of ants, I wonder if anyone has estimated their numbers. It turns out scientists have, in fact, calculated how many ants are on Earth. The number is so big it’s ‘unimaginable.’.
As COVID surges again with RSV and flu, it's time to mask up again (if you stopped) and even if it's minor, there are more than 50 long-term effects of COVID-19 as documented in this systematic review and meta-analysis.
This might be old news, but I love the new Verge. It has made me put it back on a list of websites that I manually click through to its front page daily.
Why would they steal when the U.S. simply gives away a breakthrough battery technology to China.
It's no surprise that I love U.S. National Parks so I spent a good chunk of my time at the airport recently just browsing this list and marking the ones I have visited.
I still have to put summarize.tech: AI-powered video summaries through the paces, but a few videos I tried, it did a good job.
Red meat is not a health risk. New study slams shoddy research. Wait! So I can double my steak consumption?
Recommend Me a Book is an interesting way to select a book to read by sampling just the first page. I don’t know why they didn’t call it Ishmael.
I am slowly considering Glass as my primary photo-sharing site (wonder what happened to Bokeh?), but this essay -Instagram v Glass – is a good insight to why.
Something that has caused our world to literally grind to a halt and disrupted our lives for 2+ years is so small that it would fit in a can of cola.
The cultural appropriation continues unabated, with black people still being stolen from as Black English is being misidentified as internet slang.
Depression, anxiety may escalate chances of long COVID. Dare I blame my mom’s COVID infection in early January of this year to her unexpected death in September.
Talking about comorbidities that could make your COVID worse, scientists have discovered more than 50 long-term effects of COVID-19 in a systematic review and meta-analysis. Nope, you cannot just get it over with.
Who among us doesn’t remember carrying around a stack of these and then having one of them go corrupt thus taking your entire project with it? And now there’s just one last person left standing in the floppy disk business.
When can we truly wirelessly charge our phones? Perhaps soon (or never) coz researchers just wirelessly transmitted power over 98 feet of thin air
America is great at making everything into a tourist trap. Even pain and grief. I wonder how 9/11 survivors and the families of the ones lost feel about New York's hottest tourist attraction.
Finally, academia may be waking up to the realization that we ought to reward research for being useful — not just flashy.
Inside the IRS ‘Pipeline’ used to process tax returns. The one featured is in Austin, and I've driven by it several times. It's a vast structure that may cover several football fields (a popular measuring unit in the U.S.)
This Map Lets You Plug in Your Address to See How It's Changed Over the Past 750 Million Years Plug in your city and you may realize you had a beachfront property albeit long ago.
Google Fiber was stalled for years but now says it’ll expand to 5 new states. It's waking up so you may benefit from the speeds that we in Austin have been enjoying for the last four years.
Moving from 1Password to iCloud Keychain. I have used 1P forever and can't imagine doing without it, but this seems doable considering I'm already bought into the Apple ecosystem.
Emoji Kitchen Browser. If you thought we had too many emojis, now imagine if you could mix and match any two of them.
I swear we in Austin thought we were cursed when the rain seemed to literally stop at the city limits, but it turns out we're just weird. University of Texas study finds cities are having an effect on the weather; preventing rain.
Paul Stamatiou's Photo Site. Custom-built in Jekyll. Way beyond what I can do on my own. I love his photo essay format, though.
Why Are There No Rural Superheroes There couldn't be a Spider-man in Marfa, Texas?
Personal Knowledge Management is Bullshit. Is it, though?
Chinese Scientists Show Off Laser That Can Write Words in Mid-Air. The next Chinese Bond villain is going to be lit...literally.
Scientists identify hair loss regulator protein, which could be reversible. Nothing for me here but most of you out there can hope.
The day India moved on from its national sport – field hockey to cricket via The Switch. All it took was a whitewash from an archrival.
Only a country as complacent as the UK could give up its border privilege so easily
On window seat photography. If you must do it, do it properly, but Doc Searls assumes we all sit in premier coach (front of the wing).
Using AppleScript to create reminders from text lists
Desk Setups & Home Office Ideas via Maker Stations
Take a cosmic tour inside the images captured by NASA’s Webb telescope
How Humble Leadership Really Works
What happens when you swipe a credit card?
The least diverse cities and most common statues in America. And more
Overleaf, Online LaTeX Editor
Two decades of Alzheimer's research may be based on deliberate fraud that has cost millions of lives
How Rain Evolved Its Distinct Scent—and Why Animals and Humans Love It
Tesla Converted About 75% of Bitcoin Purchases to Fiat Currency
A 30-minute class can improve teenagers’ stress response, study finds.
Reframing erroneous beliefs alleviates the emotional upheavals that beset young people on the cusp of adulthood.
Export/convert Box Notes to HTML, Markdown or Plain Text. Something I hope to do for a work project that I misguidedly started in a Box Note
Sir Mo Farah reveals he was trafficked to the UK as a child 😱 I hope this makes the UK take a closer look at its human trafficking crisis.
Guest WiFi using a QR code. A better way to share your WiFi details.
By 2026, the Gates Foundation aims to spend $9 billion a year. I hope our Institute gets some of that.
How to find, read and organize papers. Get started on creating a mindful system for reading.