@YosemiteNPS hi! We’ve been looking forward to a visit planned for this week, but now wondering if it’s still a good idea given the Pika fire. What should we expect the situation to be like for visitors this week?
It was six years ago, and my mate, Pink, had just been told he was going to die. He accepted the news with a grace I can only marvel at, but he said he’d a list of things he’d still like to do.
We sat in a pub one night and read it over. Eight things? Four months? Ok. Deal.
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Addiction is a progressive narrowing
of the things that bring you pleasure.
Happiness is a progressive expansion of the things that bring you pleasure. The former emerges passively.
The latter takes work.
ASML is the most important company you've never heard of.
The $220B Dutch firm makes the machines that make semiconductors. Each one costs $150m and access to them are a huge geopolitical flashpoint.
Here's a breakdown 🧵
Excited to share some new research that our team at Everyday Robots collaborated with Google Research on! PaLM-SayCan takes us one step closer to robots that can understand us: https://t.co/XsUz2PFSDE
Remembering Cleveland Chenier, born on this day in 1921 in Opelousas, Louisiana. Here he is playing the frottoir (rub-board) to accompany his musical partner Lightnin' Hopkins at a party in Houston, Texas in 1968.
Hoy que es el dia internacional de las mujeres y niñas en la ciencia quiero aplaudir a estas dos científicas que admiro @nelsyninor y @JuliSotobosque a las que acompañamos en uno de sus trabajos de campo en el Caquetá junto a @jennieerinsmith para @nytimes#MujeresEnCiencia