the flourishing factory
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marshall's death notice (opens the original)
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Name: Marshall PlattAge: 34City: Gaithersburg, MD Current Location: Jim’s backyard, colds ones in hand, burgers grilling. Perfect really. Stated goal? Joy. Marshall wanted to take a breathe, enjoy his friends, and relax over an outdoor meal. Did it happen? Almost. It almost happened. What got in the way? Hard to say really…..it started with email. He got an email? Well emails. The weight of work emails waiting in his inbox got to him. Then there
where are the humans? (opens the original)
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Scrolling through Instagram, swiping through Tik Tok, streaming along YouTube, one is struck by the sameness of it all. The same clips, tone of voice, cadence, and topics. Social media started as a way to stay up to date with friends. Now, I don’t know what my friends are up to but I do have a blueprint to a $10k/month coaching business and am up to date with the latest trends in Japanese denim — thank God!What’s lost in this sea of sameness is the scent of humanity. Content is about creating “w
can ai make a stradivarius? (opens the original)
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I’m fascinated by things which are lost in time, never to be recovered. Or recreated, like a Stradivarius violin. Try as we might, modernity cannot do what Anotonio Stradivari did. <img alt="Stradivarius Explained: What's So Great About these Instruments? | WFMT
can knowledge be gained without human proximity? (opens the original)
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What do Robert Oppenheimer, Isidor Isaac Rabi, and Arthur Noyles have in common? Apart from sharing the Mt. Rushmore of American scientists, all three of them studied in Europe. Oppenheimer left for Germany, where he studied under Max Born. Rabi shuffled across the continent among the laboratories of Arnold Sommerfeld, Niels Bohr, Wolfgang Pauli, Otto Stern, and Werner Heisenberg. Noyes found his way to Leipzig, where he earned his doctorate under Wilhelm Ostwald. This seems like a small thing b
disney's sunlight secret (opens the original)
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If you’re driving east on Ventura Freeway in Los Angeles and look to your left, you’ll see it. Walt Disney Studios. This campus is the birthplace of Bambi, Dumbo, The Jungle Book, Aladdin, and many other classics. Titans of American creativity have called this place home and from its’ soil hearts around the world have been caught by the magic of Disney’s storytelling. Yet look a little closer and you’ll noticing something peculiar. The animation building sits at an angle to everything around it.
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