'At Club Tropicana, the drinks were free. And that sounds pretty good when you don't have rent control'
The first episode of the Contagious podcast covers nostalgia, anemoia and why the past is haunting the present.
+ bonus disgusting Proust anecdote
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"The World Meteorological Organization says that our planet is gaining much more heat energy than it can release"
BBC News - UN issues new climate warning as El Niño looms
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"Writers like Shakespeare, Milton and Jane Austen whose works have been handed on for centuries can no longer reach the next generation of readers. They are losing the ability to understand them"
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researchers from the University of Michigan Medical School published a report showing that the number of 12- to 25-year-olds getting GLP-1s from U.S. pharmacies jumped from 8,722 in 2020, to 60,567 in 2023, a massive 594.4 percent increase in just three years
@stevenbjohnson Genuinely curious - how secure is the information being uploaded to NLM? How is it stored and used? I'd have thought it would be a barrier for this use case
“Human musicians, composers, lyricists, and singers will be vastly affected and then completely disappear in the near future as the apps keep developing at a rapid pace,” he predicted.
"one toxic employee wipes out the gains for more than two superstars. In fact, a superstar, defined as the top 1% of workers in terms of productivity, adds about $5,000 per year to the company’s profit, while a toxic worker costs about $12,000 per year"