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People who have so much in assets that they can live (and support their family) with the interest they earn on those assets, and by a huge margin, not just comfortably retired peop…

Creative expression is also about relationships with other people and connecting with an audience. Treating it like product optimization seems hollow and lonely. There's friction t…

There were a number of anomalous characteristics including its shape, acceleration, rotation, origin, and reflectivity.

Super-intelligent game-playing AIs, for decades, were trained on human data.

I once took a group of young people foraging for mushrooms in the Willamette valley on a farm that had loads of these newts. I warned every body not to touch them. After preparing …

Sperm bank

Silicon lids on glass containers are a great combo. I use Weck jars, wide-mouth for easier cleaning, in sizes 1L, 500mL, and 200mL, in my commercial kitchen. And stainless steel ho…

> something belonging to a sick person is fastened to the end of a throwing stick smeared in human or kangaroo fat. The stick is then stuck in the ground and a fire lit beneath it.…

Just to be clear, these models can answer questions about relationships between people if you mean family relationships. Answering questions about what you're describing sounds rea…

"Dry stack" is another term for that, a stone wall without mortar. In my opinion, thinking of this as a grid is misguided. It's barely different than flex columns. I would want to …

No mention of the loss of albedo. Harvesting and shipping rock flour from Greenland to sequester carbon in ag fields in Denmark sounds a little far-fetched in terms of how that wou…