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Getting better stuff when you microwave
How to enjoy a microwave oven… Wirecutter: 7 Things Our Microwave Expert Does to Instantly Improve the Performance of Any Microwave, 2024-Nov-18 by Rachel Wharton I have to admit that most of what I learned came not so much from my hands-on testing, but from learning how microwaves work. Like many people, I had thought…
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The Best Gifts
RobinSloan.com: 2024 Gift Guide https://www.robinsloan.com/newsletters/2024-gift-guide/  Consumable gifts are the best gifts, because they do the most graceful thing of all: they disappear, thus rescuing gift-giving from its terminal katamari ball state.
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Houston high-rise apartment at 2016 Main Street
I'm devoted to reframing Houston as a great place for urban living. In every city, different residents have different views of their city. So I'm here today to promote my view. You can read about the apartment my friend Kaye and her husband are putting on the market. It will help you see what's possible.…
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Our Friends’ Condo for Sale: 2016 Main
A friend of mine has a lovely condo for sale in Midtown Houston. (My husband and I LOVE living in central Houston–we're in the Museum District). Anyway here's a snap shot and the links she mentions are… Midtown Houston: https://midtownhouston.com/ Plans for the Pierce Elevated Park: http://pierceelevatedpark.com/. The Landscape Performance Series on Bagby Street: https://www.landscapeperformance.org/case-study-briefs/bagby-street-reconstruction…
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Noah Brier at BrXnd Dispatch: Human Creativity magnified by AI
What if you could magnify your creativity? …the biggest untapped source of data lives in the heads of the world's experts. While one path people fear has AI hooking us all up to Matrix-style brain straws, what’s actually happening is that those experts who are finding ways to combine their knowledge with the power of…
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Why I like Tyler, even if I seldom understand him
Politics is stupider and less ethical than before, including when it comes immigration (but not only! Fellow citizens also have become more negative about other fellow citizens of differing views, and I view negativism as the root of the problem all around). via marginalrevolution.com
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A healthy approach to AI and making art
I generally find art made by AI unappealing, but when a great artist uses AI… the results are astounding. I also appreciated what he shares about his process and his hopes for the future. The artist is Refik Anadol.
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Satell Book Recommendations
Digital Tonto: 11 Books that will Make You a Better Communicator, 2024-May-26 by Greg Satell How Minds Change by David McRaney Supercommunicators by Charles Duhigg Influence by Robert Cialdini Magic Words by Jonah Berger The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt Marshall McLuhan: You Know Nothing of My Work! by Douglas Coupland Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty…
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On Recognizing and Exiting our Reality Tunnels… Joan Westenberg
I've been aware of "reality tunnels" (a new twist on 'tunnel vision') for a long time, but I love the way Westenberg expresses this challenge and how to overcome it. Don't let all you currently know confine all you can know! @Westenberg: On Reality Tunnels, 24-May-13 by Joan Westenberg The most important thing is to…
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