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⚡️ “'Tsundoku' is the Japanese word for all the books you buy but never read”
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The hunt for missing Berkeley trail runner Philip Kreycik stretched into its fourth day on Tuesday.
"If he is alive today is the time to find him," said Sgt. Ray Kelly of the Alameda County Sheriff’s Department which is leading the search.
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Scientists have discovered a vast population of over 100 black holes inside our very own galaxy in a new study published in @NatureAstronomy.
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In the last 20 years, software ate the world.
In the next 20 years, AI will eat software.
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Aurelia throws around phrases like, “Can we turn the telly on?” A reference to the water closet instead of the bathroom initially threw off Ms. Ouellette. “I was like, ‘Where did she learn that from? Was she on the Titanic in a past life?’ ”
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Touching photo from @dansiddiqui of a child comforting his mother after the death of his sister in the Nepal quake
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April 1863: These are the whipping scars of Gordon, a Louisiana slave who escaped his owner & took refuge in a Unionist army camp where this photo was taken.
(My great-aunt Jane was 5 at the time. She died when my dad was 10. History's a lot closer than we like to imagine)
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A new immune system aging clock predicts future health way better than birthdays. A 105-year-old man in the study was estimated to be biologically 25, but his grandfather refuses to believe it. @StanfordMed tinyurl.com/trmphern
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Physicist John Archibald Wheeler, who popularized interest in black holes and wormholes, was born #OTD in 1911. In a 2015 Quanta interview, Christopher Fuchs, Wheeler’s mentee, discussed his own pursuit of Wheeler’s main question: Why the quantum? quantamagazine.org/quantum-b…
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One @RaiseUpfor15 member, Precious Cole, told The Counter that Covid only pushed fast food workers like her to a “breaking point.” She wants corporations to know that without workers like her, there is no fast food industry.
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Intuitionist mathematics demands that numbers must be constructible; real numbers cannot exist as complete entities. Four new papers argue that this mathematical language may hold the key to one of the greatest mysteries in physics: time. quantamagazine.org/does-time…
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Seven years, a masters, a freak spinal cord injury and a global pandemic later...I’M A DOCTOR! Proud is an understatement.
📸 by Dolly Clew
