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John, I've been following your work for years (including back in the old lemonodor years). I just wanted to say thank you here, for sharing your expertise for all on this topic, an…

I feel for you my friend. From my experience, having young kids is a very difficult time for relationships. Couple that with all the challenges around the pandemic and other curren…

I'm betting on some kind of glitch on the State Department website, but it's an interesting historical note that when Richard Nixon formally resigned in August 1974, he did so via …

I support this ban. I’m a physician. In addition to this president inciting a riot, this president and his supporters are complicit in using social media to promote unscientific, s…

Looks like they are fixing this, but good grief, isn't anyone in Stanford's well-paid hierarchy looking out for these young doctors? Residents, nurses, and other front-line healthc…

“Capturing the Unicorn” - the story of The Unicorn Tapestries and the mathematician brothers Gregory and David Chudnovsky: http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/04/11/050411fa_fact…

Having followed this story for some time, I grieve with the family as much as an outsider can. This brave family's story is an inspiration. Dr. Might's linked post includes many wa…

Thank you for all of it, Dr. Graham! What a life.

Worthy of HN border acknowledgment, please.

Emacs with org-mode.

Your selective quotation misses the main point of Wallace's piece. He is wrestling with the ethics of causing gratuitous suffering. The 'grasshopper' quote is Wallace actually quot…

There's a wealth of fascinating information including book series on deep space communication at the JPL DESCANSO Deep Space Communications and Navigation Center of Excellence: htt…

See a physician.

Ask permission to talk to the outgoing manager. If they balk at transparency, you'll know where the "communications" problem lay.

The rotation I did through a hospice service when I was a fourth year medical student was one of the most meaningful experiences of my life. Hospice staff are experts at effective …

Note to tech world: THIS is how you take responsibility, make things right when mistakes happen, and look out for the communities we live in.

Please try again. Please see a physician.

President Obama just tweeted: "Cool clock, Ahmed. Want to bring it to the White House? We should inspire more kids like you to like science. It's what makes America great."

Dr. Kirsch's (a psychologist) work has been valuable, with some justified criticisms of antidepressant therapy and their trials. But his work did not show that antidepressants are …

> Can you point me to a "guide to reading 'Zen'" or something similar which can show me where I'm going wrong? "Guidebook to Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance": http://www.…

Mesmerizing...really well done. Thanks for sharing, and for the book recommendation!

Neil's a fantastic human and great mathematician - I'll just post my same comment from the last time a story came up about him here: Great to see this article about Neil, a warm an…

Sadly, we sold it before I went off to school. But I later bought a bright orange '64 Triumph Spitfire ($400!), and spent many interesting hours tweaking the engine (with its infam…