Phono Sapiens

> Never faceplant again staring at your phone, thanks to this robotic third eye https://t.co/X7oX1NbU9D — Fast Company (@FastCompany) May 14, 2021 [https://twitter.com/FastCompany/status/1393212348308066307?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] Well, at least the creator doesn't think it's a good idea.…

One foot in front of the other

Garrison Keillor offers some good advice in his weekly column [https://garrisonkeillor.substack.com/p/a-modest-proposal-for-saving-the]. I reviewed my listening during isolation and was amazed to see the amount of Bach's music I had listened to in this time. I'd love to picnic with him and…

Sadness

> "Breathing. Only the chore and sadness of breathing and breathing, as things change from tender to dry, new to old." Catalan writer, Mercè Rodoreda died #OnThisDay [https://twitter.com/hashtag/OnThisDay?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] in 1983 #ReadMoreWomen [https://twitter.com/hashtag/ReadMoreWomen?src=…

A gentler thought

> "Education is the best provision for the journey to old age." Aristotle — Philosophy On Ice (@PhilosophyOI) April 10, 2021 [https://twitter.com/PhilosophyOI/status/1380814067254784004?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]…

What the future holds

> should surely be a sort of natural priesthood, whom life has disciplined and consecrated to be the refuge and rescue of early stumblers and victims of self-despair. — George Eliot (@GeorgeEliot_) March 16, 2021 [https://twitter.com/GeorgeEliot_/status/1371841412824768512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]…

A Relaxed View of the Rule of Fifty

Disappointing, overrated, just not good: What book did you feel as if you were supposed to like, and didn’t? Do you remember the last book you put down without finishing? I tend to finish things, holding out hope. Sometimes what seems like a slog can bring you to a…

Beauty

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Contactless Medicine

Smart Speakers Could One Day Be Contactless Heart MonitorsAs it turns out, smart speakers have proven to be handy in hospitals, allowing patients to independently control devices, as well as lessen the workload for clinicians and caretakers. And now, researchers from the University of Washington have developed an artificial intelligence…