We pay too much attention to the most confident voices—and too little attention to the most thoughtful ones.
Certainty is not a sign of credibility. Speaking assertively is not a substitute for thinking deeply.
It's better to learn from complex thinkers than smooth talkers.
RIP DJ Screw. November 16, 2000.
His tapes were so popular, Screw had to install a front gate to keep people out of his house & control customer flow. He'd have cars lined up for blocks. Houston PD searched his house numerous times after receiving complaints from neighbors.
Thanks to President Biden’s infrastructure bill, remote locations on the Navajo Nation reservation are receiving electricity — for the first time, ever.
I recently came across data on who we spend our time with over the course of our lives.
The insights are simultaneously inspiring and depressing.
Here are 6 graphs everyone needs to see:
Let's be clear. Eli Lilly should apologize for increasing the price of insulin by over 1,200% since 1996 to $275 while it costs less than $10 to manufacture. The inventors of insulin sold their patents in 1923 for $1 to save lives, not to make Eli Lilly's CEO obscenely rich.
We regret to inform you that we will not be giving away insulin, a publicly funded invention that was given away by its creator to be given away to people so they don’t die.
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On October 11 we extracted the largest single catch for System 002 to-date; 10,086 kg of plastic removed from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch after only 6.5 days, bringing us to a total of 145,518 kg extracted so far.
Kevin Stitt just said the SCOTUS decision in McGirt v. Oklahoma affirming Tribal sovereignty was a "Biden administration" takeover of state land. That decision came down in July 2020, during the Trump presidency.
There has been no invitation to meet with Gov Stitt and there is no meeting scheduled. That Gov Stitt thinks he can command tribal leaders to his office by simply declaring it on live television speaks volumes of why has had been a failure at state / tribal relations.
In 1977 NASA sent the "Golden Records" into space with the two Voyager probes, intended to be found by intelligent extraterrestial life.
They contain 115 images of life on earth, along with a variety of sounds and music. Here's what they included...