Bookmarks tagged with "life"
- Supreme Court to Hear Challenge to Law Banning Conversion Therapy
Advertisement SKIP ADVERTISEMENT Colorado, like more than 20 other states, bars licensed therapists from trying to change the sexual orientation or gender identity of minors in their care. Listen to this article · 3:53 min Learn more The Supreme Court has turned down earlier cases challenging state laws regulating conversion therapy, over the dissents of some conservative justices.Credit...Haiyun Jiang for The New York Times March 10, 2025, 11:11 a.m. ET The Supreme Court said on Monday that it ...
- Why doesn’t advice work?
In ancient India, there was a long-running feud between the Duryodhana refused to listen and launched his war. There were 4 million warriors at the start. After 18 days, all but 11 were dead. It’s unclear if Duryodhana knew Krishna was a god. Duryodhana may have been an atheist, despite having seen Krishna in his extremely multi-armed/multi-headed So why didn’t Duryodhana listen? It seems like this happens a lot. Someone has a problem, they ask you for advice, and you give it to them. Your adv...
- Effective altruism is stumbling. Can "moral ambition" replace it?
In 1785, a 25-year-old student at Cambridge University named Thomas Clarkson participated in a Latin essay competition about the immorality of slavery. Raised in a sheltered, upper-class environment, Clarkson knew little of the practice at the foundation of the British Empire’s wealth and power. But the more he read about the inhumanity African slaves endured both during and after their passage to the Americas, the more it affected him. Channeling his outrage into his writing, Clarkson ended up ...
- The manager’s unbearable lack of endorphins
I’ve been doing a lot of swimming over the past few weeks and I’ve regularly been hitting some new personal milestones over the past year. Each milestone brings with in a huge high, an endorphin rush, a personal satisfaction and, honestly, I walk around for the day feeling like It’s so viscerally satisfying to see myself making progress, sometimes huge leaps in performance, and feeling just so… I think we all need to feel that satisfaction, that competence at a skill, and those moments of leve...
- AI Doesn’t Kill Jobs? Tell That to Freelancers
349 Jennifer Kelly, a freelance copywriter in the picturesque New England town of Walpole, N.H., feels bad for any young people who might try to follow in her footsteps. Not long after OpenAI’s ChatGPT made its debut, financial advisers who had depended on her 30 years of experience writing about wealth management stopped calling. New clients failed to replace them. Her income dried up almost completely. When she asked, the clients she lost insisted they weren’t using artificial intelligence. Bu...
- A myopia epidemic is sweeping the globe. Here’s how to stop it
The COVID-19 pandemic didn’t just reshape how children learn and see the world. It transformed the shape of their eyeballs. As real-life classrooms and playgrounds gave way to virtual meetings and digital devices, the time that children spent focusing on screens and other nearby objects surged — and the Study after study, in regions ranging from Europe to Asia, documented this change. One analysis from Hong Kong even reported a near doubling in the incidence of pathologically stretched eyeballs...
- Understanding How the Brain Reads Code Versus Language - learnhub
While both programming and reading a natural language involve deciphering symbols and instructions, recent research indicates that our brains process these tasks differently. This distinction sheds light on the unique cognitive demands of coding and offers insights into how programming should be taught. Research by neuroscientists at MIT reveals that reading computer code does not engage the brain’s language centers. Instead, it activates the multiple demand network, which is involved in complex...
- Giant Batteries Are Transforming the Way the U.S. Uses Electricity
Source: California Independent System Operator via Please see the bottom of this page for notes. By The New York Times California draws more electricity from the sun than any other state. It also has a timing problem: Solar power is plentiful during the day but disappears by evening, just as people get home from work and electricity demand spikes. To fill the gap, power companies typically burn more fossil fuels like natural gas. That’s now changing. Since 2020, California has installed more gi...
- Great American Rail-Trail Route - Rails to Trails Conservancy
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