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September is now almost gone and we’re diving deeper and deeper into the autumn. Despite a few problems here and there, I think it was quite a nice month, and it’s important to always try seeing things for their positive side, despite that now always being very easy. 🍄 Life At the beginning of the month, I went to Groningen for the first time. Groningen is the capital of one …

Mirrors & Reflections in Videogames Current version - 209 entries (!) Full list here: http://shorturl.at/kovSY Full-sized picture: https://shorturl.at/ZNZHd Suggestions are still welcome. Thank you!

By David Tuller, DrPH Dr Peter Rowe is a professor of pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and director of the Chronic Fatigue Clinic at the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center. As an expert on orthostatic intolerance, a common component of ME/CFS, Long Covid and related illnesses, he has recently authored “Living Well with … Trial By Error: Interview with Dr Peter Rowe of Johns Hopkins about “Living with …

Running 1,000km in a year isn’t even that much. As you can see, I was finding it easier when I was running at the gym as well as outside. I’m posting this today to remind me that most of the goals worth pursuing in life are somewhat arbitrary and nearly always self-determined.

Fleischer's Last Stand (I Stan for Fleischer)The final film by Richard Fleischer, Million Dollar Mystery [1987], places the emphasis on "mystery." To elaborate: a passage from the film's Wiki page: "Million Dollar Mystery (also known as Money Mania) is a 1987 American film released with a promotional tie-in for Glad-Lock brand [garbage/rubbish] bags. This was the final feature-length film directed by Richard Fleischer and shot by Jack Cardiff. [...] During …

1. Google says it’s made a quantum computing breakthrough that reduces errors - Google researchers have made a breakthrough in quantum error correction, which could pave the way for useful quantum computers. The main challenge in quantum computing has been the high error rate of the hardware, which prevents them from executing long and useful algorithms. The new research demonstrates that it is possible to add components to reduce these …

In between my day job as an M&A attorney and my social responsibilities (which are legion), I have been slowly organizing the new workshop. Recently, this has included updating the tool wall that goes with my hanging wall cabinet. The tool wall itself hangs from the same french cleats the main wall cabinet hangs off, […]

When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labutat (NYRB, 2020) A book that is both fiction and non-fiction, both wave and particle, both history and imagination, and somehow, something else entirely. Great mathematicians and physicists walk the pages—Haber, Heisenberg, Bohr, Grothendieck, Schrödinger, and more. Their lives are marked by great achievements, fame and shame, agony and lucidity, and a great many deaths—their own, of course, but also countless …

There is a long running debate in F1 about the impact that drivers and cars have on winning. If drivers have their way, the wins are because of them and the losses are the car’s fault. But over the years, lots and lots of people have studied this issue, and it seems like winning is about 80% car and 20% everything else (driver, team, pit crew, team principal). There is …

Konami’s Contra series showed obvious influence from R-rated movies like Predator, Aliens, and Rambo, but the games were still fundamentally aimed at kids, so the end results were always a little sanitized. Now thirty-five years after the original Contra game, unshackled by such regulations, Iron Meat delivers run-and-gun action far more brutal and far more vicious than the original games were ever allowed to be. Rather than dealing with alien …

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The recent UN Summit of the Future marked a pivotal moment in history, specifically recognizing the critical role of youth in shaping our global future. As an educator and advocate for futures literacy, I'm delighted to share the key takeaways from our involvement and participation. Youth Voices at the Forefront The Summit's core message was clear: youth participation is not just welcomed—it's essential. The Pact for the Future explicitly calls …

Review of the book Works Fall True. Selected works by Ryts Monet. Edited by Francesco D’Abbraccio, Andrea Facchetti, Andrea Catherine Steves. Published by Krisis Publishing. Texts in both English and Italian. The publisher explains that the book is “embarking on a Warburgian investigation into the shifts of narrative devices following the downfall and disintegration of the empires and ideologies that shaped them.” I’ll never get back the time i spent …

Nick Wolven’s latest contribution to Asimov’s explores colonialism, false repentance, and the line between suspicion and paranoia; available to read in our [September/October issue, on sale now!] Asimov’s Editor: What is the story behind this piece?Nick Wolven: I got the idea for this one back in 2020 or so when white privilege was a hot topic. So I was thinking about the horrors of European colonialism and the ways in …

In this week’s issue of The Savvy Diabetic: Stem cells Reverse T1D Microtech Linx CGM (a fail?) FDA Releases Clinical Hold on Biomea Fusion’s BMF-219 StartUp Health Podcast: WiNK Therapeutics & Sensulin Heat/dust Increase Diabetes Hospitalizations Gina Pillina, T1D and Illustrator Extraordinaire! Stem cells reverse woman’s diabetes — a world first by Smriti Mallapaty for Nature.com, 26 September 2024. A 25-year-old woman with type 1 diabetes started producing her own …