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In theory, any theme is good for you to spend time on. If you have a hobby, a subject of interest, or a project that you wish to maintain during your medical training, you should. [I assume you’re doing no harm to anyone/anything...] If...
It hardly needs to be said, but one of the most nefarious activities of the corporate oligarchs and their fellow Epstein Class tech bros is trying to get us all to use ‘apps’ for everything online, instead of the open World Wide Web....
Gerhard Richter, Erster Blick, 2000, offset lithograph, 182 x 151 mm, mounted on board, ed. 16/100, published by Edition Staeck, selling 16 July 2026 at Wright20 In 2000 Gerhard Richter made Erster Blick, an offset edition of an enlarged...
I recently had the joy of another blogger dissecting one of my blog posts. It really was sort of funny in a way. Something that I had written struck a nerve. Enough so that they actually dedicated digital real estate on their blog to...
When we moved to Munich in 2024 I wanted a bicycle, but I could never settle on which one to buy. An e-bike, a nice hybrid, a folding bike? The choices were endless and the whole thing felt overwhelming, so I did nothing. I never got one...
Album of the Week, July 11, 2026 Laurie Anderson might have started the 1980s as the definitive performance artist who also happened to sing, but her last album of the decade posited her as a singer who also happened to be a performance...
A reflection on fear and the profound exchange of obedience for intimacy.
Less than a year after introducing its agentic browser ChatGPT Atlas to the world, OpenAI recently shut it down. My guess is the team decided to make a bet on building an AI browser, but the product wasn’t really working, and Google...
Since the US has decided, in a bout of Cold War nostalgia, to bring back the years when encryption counted as a munition (if you’re reading this in the far future when we have cheap RAM, both Fable and GPT 5.6 were, for a bit, subject to...
You might think that black holes suck in light without letting it escape, but they actually concentrate light in the photon sphere which surrounds their horizon. In a recent paper, researchers created a new type of laser which...
In the process of seeing and doing things, firm principals acquire “inside” info on the future value of their firm, and on the wisdom of particular firm decisions. It often makes sense for firms to want such inside info to be reflected...
Miles Glacier and Van Cleve glacier lake (VC) near its maximum size on June 19th and after drainage on July 9th in Sentinel images. Glacier margin black dots. Miles Glacier terminates in an embayment on the east side of the Copper River,...
This summer, a man claiming to be a 5,900-year-old alien warlord from the planet Sigma IX will contest a byelection in the British seaside town of Clacton-on-Sea.The performance is among the most ludicrous works of science fiction of...
I could sit still for hours, staring out the window, watching and listening to the rain as it strikes the metal and the hard floor below. The sound makes me lose track of time entirely. It's therapeutic in that it often heals me. But it...
As part of my World Cup-themed Wiki dives, I’ve been digging into profiles of great players. Some of them I knew, some of them not so much. Thanks to YouTube, I’ve also been able to see these masters in action. These include : Eden...