Caroline Bell

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[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

“The doers are the major thinkers.”

— Steve Jobs

[Aaron @aaronp613]

Apple's Machine Learning Research team just gave us our first look at the possible upcoming tabletop robot which was reported by @markgurman

[Bob Dylan @bobdylan]

Saw Nick Cave in Paris recently at the Accor Arena and I was really struck by that song Joy where he sings “We’ve all had too much sorrow, now it the time for joy.” I was thinking to myself, yeah that’s about right.

[Chris Palmer, MD @ChrisPalmerMD]

Restricting sugar exposure in the first two years of life can meaningfully reduce the risk of chronic diseases in adulthood.

We need to rethink many cereals, snacks, and treats for children.

https://t.co/P0cTOtpLNV

[nxthompson @nxthompson]

A cartoon for today. https://t.co/vfjihowoqX

[Farnam Street @farnamstreet]

"Most people are out of touch with reality because they confuse the world as it is, with the world as they think about it, and talk about it, and describe it."

– Alan Watts

[Caroline Bell @carolineb3ll]

@CallumGRobinson Beautiful

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Body transfer illusion

The illusion of owning a part/or entire body other than one's own

sight, touch and proprioception (a sense of body position) all combine to convince this person that a rubber hand is their body part 1/🧵

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[Caroline Bell @carolineb3ll]

This thread

[Sam Knowlton @samdknowlton]

Yuma County, Arizona, receives just 3 inches of annual rainfall.

Yet the county grows 90% of all winter greens consumed in the US.

Lettuce contains 98% water.

One of the driest places in the US is the leading exporter of water in the form of lettuce.

[Sam Knowlton @samdknowlton]

The Inca built one of the greatest civilizations in human history.

They flourished without the wheel, written word, draft animals, or iron and steel.

But they did have one of the most advanced agricultural systems we have ever seen, which was the key to their prosperity.

[Caroline Bell @carolineb3ll]

Inspiring

[Boyan Slat @BoyanSlat]

Thinking back to the early days of The Ocean Cleanup, our main job was to get things done with no $.

We didn’t have money to access professional scale model testing facilities, so we got permission to use a local pool for a night, in which we constructed our own wave generator.

[The Lever @LeverNews]

We investigated the Norfolk Southern train derailment in Ohio.

Here's what you need to know:

[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

1981 Steve Jobs with the best analogy I’ve heard to understand what AI might do to humans:

[Farnam Street @farnamstreet]

“Sheep don’t bring their owners grass to prove to them how much they’ve eaten, they digest it inwardly and outwardly bring forth milk and wool. So don’t make a show of your philosophical learning to the uninitiated, show them by your actions what you have absorbed.”

- Epictetus

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

The most powerful paradoxes of life:

[Dr. Julie Gurner @drgurner]

Reduce overstimulation everywhere you can.

The high stress/anxiety people feel in the modern world makes sense: Humans have highly attuned nervous systems meant to detect threat.

Modern life overstimulates people all the time - sirens, notifications, etc

Silence is essential.

[Steve Jobs Stories @SJobs_Stories]

"Customers don't form their opinion on quality from marketing.[...] They form their opinions on quality from their own experience with the product, or the service." — Steve Jobs, 1991

[Curiosity @CuriosityonX]

This is how it would look Saturn if it was at the same distance as the moon.

[Billy Dinh @billydeee_]

Some of my fave photographs from some of my favorite street photographers

[Sam Knowlton @samdknowlton]

Today, Hawaii imports 90% of its food.

Before Captain Cook landed, the populous Native Hawaiians were entirely self-sufficient and produced more food using less land than modern Hawaiian agriculture.

Here is a quick tour.