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May 2025 Roundup: What I am Reading, Watching and Listening To

May 2025 Roundup: What I am Reading, Watching and Listening To

Nanowerk: Programmable Shape-shifting Materials Explores groundbreaking developments in materials that can alter their shape in response to environmental stimuli, with potential applications across robotics, biomedicine, and aerospace.

Discover Magazine: Quantum Sensors Navigate by Earth's Magnetic Field Highlights new quantum sensors that could revolutionize navigation systems by using Earth's magnetic field, eliminating the need for GPS.

Google Research Blog: Teaching Machines the Language of Biology Discusses how large language models are being adapted to understand biological data at the single-cell level, enabling breakthroughs in healthcare and biology research.

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December 2023 Roundup: What I am Reading, Watching, and Listening To

December 2023 Roundup: What I am Reading, Watching, and Listening To

The Roman Empire Fallacy - by Frederik Gieschen
Have you ever looked at the US and thought 'man, this looks a lot like the late stage Roman Empire'? Powerful but divided. Rich but corrupt. Glamorous but dysfunctional. A source of marvelous technological achievements but unable to build things as it used to. Ruled by incompetent politicians, owned by a small elite, its masses trapped by unsustainable debt and distracting themselves with endless mind-numbing entertainment.

Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes by Morgan Housel
Every investment plan under the sun is, at best, an informed speculation of what may happen in the future, based on a systematic extrapolation from the known past. Same as Ever reverses the process, inviting us to identify the many things that never, ever change. With his usual elan, Morgan Housel presents a master class on optimizing risk, seizing opportunity, and living your best life. 

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