> .@vivek_murthy [https://twitter.com/vivek_murthy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] stopped by #SXSW [https://twitter.com/hashtag/SXSW?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] 2022 for a conversation on loneliness and the importance of community trust and social connection. pic.twitter.com/Q76sR4DLRN [https://t.co/Q76sR4DLRN]…
Via rest of world [https://restofworld.org/2022/the-technology-fueling-beijing-olympic-games/?utm_source=nextdraft&utm_medium=website] > The Olympic Village will be populated with hundreds of robots that will help maintain distance between visiting athletes and local staff by doing everything from delivering packages to flipping burgers. Robots will assist…
I wish this report included more details and more reader reaction. > Visit #TheFUTURES [https://twitter.com/hashtag/TheFUTURES?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] to ask Roomie a question! 🤖 Roomie is a robot designed for therapeutic treatment. During the COVID-19 pandemic, at a time of necessary social distancing,…
What sticks with me from a graduate seminar in American Puritan Literature. I don't remember how we wandered so far afield, but I'm glad we did. > Thomas Kinsella has died. A poet of Ireland, he reinvigorated Irish poetry. His poem, a Butchers Dozen (linked here)…
Maria Popova spies John Keats combining the two. > “The best of Men have… a kind of spiritual yeast in their frames which creates the ferment of existence — by which a Man is propell’d to act and strive and buffet with Circumstance.” Keats, born on this day in 1795,…
Tavi Gevinson cites an even stricter observance at the New York Times: [https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/26/arts/television/tavi-gevinson-gossip-girl-assassins.html] > 7. Abandoning books I started finishing a lot more books once I started abandoning ones that I wasn’t compelled to finish, but would just carry…
Amazon’s Alexa is coming to a hospital near you“Alexa, tell my nurse to bring me a blanket.”Fast CompanyRuth Reader [https://www.fastcompany.com/90689082/amazon-alexa-echo-in-hospitals?partner=feedburner&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+fastcompany%2Fheadlines+%28Fast+Company%29]…
The ER Experience is definitely not one of the happiest I've known. Fast Company tells of a reengineering [https://www.fastcompany.com/90677962/this-1-6-billion-hospital-redesign-dramatically-reduces-er-wait-times?partner=feedburner&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+fastcompany%2Fheadlines+%28Fast+Company%29] undertaken by the University…