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The Most Important Decision You'll Ever Make
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started reading The Sirens’ Call by Chris Hayes almost a month ago,
but the first time I picked it up I got 20 pages in and then got
distracted by the internet.
It was a deeply ironic and deeply appropriate way to kick off reading
a book about attention in the modern technological world. I didn’t
pick the book back up until last week when I took a low-internet
vacation to rural Switzerland (that’s why you haven’t seen
anything from the blog for the last ten days or so!). I spent last
week in the Swiss Alps staring at mountains, mostly ignoring the
internet and my phone, reading voraciously and contemplating Hayes’s
book on the nature of human attention.
Continued here
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objectives unobtainable.
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-- manganese diboride -- that could revolutionize rocket fuel and make
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nation.
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on to canvas? Or someone at a wheel, shaping clay? What's less likely
is that you'll envisage a team. Yet great artworks throughout the
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started reading The Sirens’ Call by Chris Hayes almost a month ago,
but the first time I picked it up I got 20 pages in and then got
distracted by the internet.
It was a deeply ironic and deeply appropriate way to kick off reading
a book about attention in the modern technological world. I didn’t
pick the book back up until last week when I took a low-internet
vacation to rural Switzerland (that’s why you haven’t seen
anything from the blog for the last ten days or so!). I spent last
week in the Swiss Alps staring at mountains, mostly ignoring the
internet and my phone, reading voraciously and contemplating Hayes’s
book on the nature of human attention.
Continued here
Your 5-minute edge at work. Expense Premium
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'Dumbphones' are getting smarter, more costly and offering options for
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The Great IT-Divide: Why AI-Adoption in enterprises is failing
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IT innovation moved from business tools to social tech, creating two
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(social interaction). Grasping this divide is crucial for enterprise
adoption and explains why businesses struggle with AI uptake.
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here's how we know
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=238995&nl=daily]
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=238995&nl=daily]
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many as 8,000 years ago. But how do we know Proto-Indo-European must
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number increasingly rising annually."
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CHONGQING, China--An elevated train cuts through a residential
high-rise. What looks like a street-level plaza is also the roof of a
cliff-side building, 22-stories high. At night, the neon skyline
lights up like a scene from "Blade Runner."This futuristic Chinese
megacity built on mountains seems like science fiction--which is
exactly why Florida retirees Bev and John Martin had to see it.
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[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=238995&nl=daily]
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=238995&nl=daily]
Picture an artist. Do you see a lone master in a studio dabbing paint
on to canvas? Or someone at a wheel, shaping clay? What's less likely
is that you'll envisage a team. Yet great artworks throughout the
centuries have often emerged as a result of collective endeavour:
think of the artisans who decorated tombs in ancient Egypt, or Fra
Angelico's 15th-century workshop that produced frescoes across
Florence, or Rodin's 19th-century Paris studio, where assistants
sculpted and cast under his direction. And this way of working hasn't
gone away: many artworks today are not physically made by the named
artist, but by specialist fabricators such as AB Fine Art Foundry in
London and Factum Arte in Madrid.
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It is the latest in a series of Trump administration efforts to
dispute, silence or downplay climate change.
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The Trump administration is escalating its fight with Harvard
University by starting a process that could make the nation's oldest
and wealthiest university ineligible for federal grants over
allegations of antisemitism on campus.
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