Scientists discover why your middle-age metabolism is being such a jerk – Boing Boing
Yay science!
Statuses
An Increasingly Worse Response — Garrick van Buren
A toy giraffe that, when a person engages with it, can only — collapse.
As a metaphor for new technologies, this toy giraffe’s message is worth considering, “we break when any pressure is applied.”
Finally, a useful way of thinking about the current usefulness of AI.
People can change – annie’s blog
People can change. The only limit on what you can learn in a lifetime is how many years you get. There is not a hard stop on openness or curiosity. Change is difficult but people can change. It is right to ask them to do so because things change when people change.
My wife fulfilled a bucket list item with a book.
“We lead the world because, unique among nations, we draw our people—our strength—from every country and every corner of the world. And by doing so we continuously renew and enrich our nation. While other countries cling to the stale past, here in America we breathe life into dreams. We create the future, and the world follows us into tomorrow. Thanks to each wave of new arrivals to this land of opportunity, we’re a nation forever young, forever bursting with energy and new ideas, and always on the cutting edge, always leading the world to the next frontier. This quality is vital to our future as a nation. If we ever closed the door to new Americans, our leadership in the world would soon be lost.”
Our family rules:
We don’t Door Dash. We don’t Uber Eat. We don’t Shipt. We don’t get it delivered. We don’t drive up. We don’t drive through.
We pick up. We get out of our car. We go in. We talk to the cashiers. Sometimes the cook. We say thank you to a person.
There’s no prosthetic for an amputated soul.
What happens if us becomes them? What if they become us? What if they always were us and we always were them? What if there never was an us versus them or them versus us?
Opinion | This Is How Universities Can Escape Trump’s Trap, If They Dare – The New York Times
So this is my radical proposal for universities: Act like universities, not like businesses. Spend your endowments. Accept more, not fewer students. Open up your campuses and expand your reach not by buying real estate but by bringing education to communities. Create a base. Become a movement.
Local favorite radio station The Current is playing all Minnesota music playlist today. We have an amazing breadth and depth of artists here. Highly recommended.